Calamaria pavimentata

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Collared Reed Snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Calamaria
Species: C. pavimentata
Binomial name
Calamaria pavimentata
Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854

The Collared Reed Snake (Calamaria pavimentata) is a species of Colubrid snake found in Asia. In Japan it is also called Miyara's collared snake.

[edit] Distribution

India (Assam), W Malaysia (incl. Pulau Tioman), Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, S/SW China (incl. Hainan), Taiwan, Japan (Ryukyu Islands)

Type locality: Java, Indonesia.


[edit] References

  • Duméril, A.M.C., G. Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril 1854 Erpétologie générale ou Histoire Naturelle complète des Reptiles. Vol. 7 (partie 1). Paris, xvi + 780 S.
  • Günther, A. 1896 Annuaire Mus. Zool. St. Pétersbourg, I: 205
  • Inger, R. F. & H. MARX 1965 The systematics and evolution of the oriental colubrid snakes of the genus Calamaria. Fieldiana Zool., Chicago, 49:1-304.

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