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.

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[edit] Description

Rostral as deep as broad, well visible from above; frontal longer than broad, shorter than the parietals, twice to twice and a half as broad as the supraocular; one pre- and one postocular; four upper labials, second and fourth largest, second and third entering the eye; first pair of lower labials forming a suture behind the mental; two pairs of chin-shields, in contact with each other. Scales in 13 rows. Ventrals 140-182; anal entire; subcaudals 13-27- Tail pointed. Reddish brown above, with five dark longitudinal lines or series of spots; nape dark brown, separated from the back by a yellow collar; a pair of yellow spots at the base and another at the end of the tail; lower parts uniform yellowish, with a dark line along the tail in the Burmese and Javan specimens, obscured with brown mottlings or brown with lighter borders in the var. siamensis.[1]

Total length 12.5 inches; tail 0.6.

[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] Notes

  1. ^ Boulenger, G. A. 1890. Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia.

[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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