Calamaria

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Calamariinae
Genus: Calamaria
Species (67): C. abramovi – C. abstrusa – C. acutirostris – C. albiventer – C. alcalai – C. alidae – C. andersoni – C. apraeocularis – C. arcana – C. banggaiensis – C. battersbyi – C. bicolor – C. bitorques – C. boesemani – C. borneensis – C. brongersmai – C. buchi – C. butonensis – C. ceramensis – C. concolor – C. crassa – C. curta – C. doederleini – C. dominici – C. eiselti – C. everetti – C. forcarti – C. gervaisii – C. gialaiensis – C. grabowskyi – C. gracillima – C. griswoldi – C. hilleniusi – C. ingeri – C. javanica – C. joloensis – C. lateralis – C. lautensis – C. leucogaster – C. linnaei – C. longirostris – C. lovii – C. lumbricoidea – C. lumholtzi – C. margaritophora – C. mecheli – C. melanota – C. modesta – C. muelleri – C. nebulosa – C. nuchalis – C. palavanensis – C. pavimentata – C. pfefferi – C. prakkei – C. rebentischi – C. sangi – C. schlegelii – C. schmidti – C. septentrionalis – C. strigiventris – C. suluensis – C. sumatrana – C. thanhi – C. ulmeri – C. virgulata – C. yunnanensis

Name

Calamaria H. Boie in F. Boie, 1827: 519 [conserved name]

Type species: Calamaria linnaei H. Boie, 1827, designated under the plenary power by Opinion 2196 (2008: 79).
Gender: feminine.
Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 2196 (2008: 79).

Synonyms

Changulia Gray, 1835: pl. 86
- Type species: Changulia albiventer Gray, 1834, by monotypy.
Grotea Theobald, 1868: 45 [nomen praeoccupatum pro Grotea Cresson, 1864]
- Type species: Calamaria bicolor Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854, by monotypy.
Keiometopon Taylor, 1962: 257
- Type species: Keiometopon booliati Taylor, 1962, by original designation and monotypy.

References

Primary references

Boie, F. 1827. Bemerkungen über Merrem’s Versuch eines Systems der Amphibien. Marburg, 1820. 1te Lieferung, Ophidier. Isis von Oken 20(6): 508–566. BHL Reference page.
Theobald, W. Jr. 1868. Catalogue of Reptiles in the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Journal of the Asiatic Society, Supplement, 88 pp. BHL Reference page.
Taylor, E.H. 1962. New Oriental Reptiles. The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 43(7): 209–263. BHL Reference page.
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 2008. Opinion 2196 (Case 3557). Calamaria H. Boie in F. Boie, 1827 (Reptilia, Serpentes): usage conserved by designation of C. linnaei H. Boie in F. Boie, 1827 as the type species. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 65(1): 79–80. DOI: 10.21805/bzn.v65i1.a20 Reference page.

Additional references

Nguyen, T.Q., Koch, A. & Ziegler, T. 2009. A new species of reed snake, Calamaria Boie, 1827 (Squamata: Colubridae), from central Vietnam. Hamadryad 34(1): 1–8. Reference page.
Yang, J.-H. & Zheng, X. 2018. A New Species of the Genus Calamaria (Squamata: Colubridae) from Yunnan Province, China. Copeia 106(3): 485–491. DOI: 10.1643/CH-17-663 Reference page.
Poyarkov, N.A., Nguyen, T.V., Orlov, N.L. & Vogel, G. 2019. A New Species of the Genus Calamaria Boie, 1827 from the Highlands of the Langbian Plateau, Southern Vietnam (Squamata: Colubridae). Russian Journal of Herpetology 26(6): 335–348. DOI: 10.30906/1026-2296-2019-26-6-335-348 Reference page.
Ziegler, T., Tran, V.A., Babb, R.D., Jones, T.R., Moler, P.E., Van Devender, R.W. & Nguyen, T.Q. 2019. A new species of reed snake, Calamaria Boie, 1827 from the Central Highlands of Vietnam (Squamata: Colubridae). Revue suisse de Zoologie 126(1): 17–26. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2619512 Reference page.
Weinell, J.L., Leviton, A.E. & Brown, R.M. 2020. A new species of reed snake, genus Calamaria (Colubridae: Calamariinae), from Mindoro Island, Philippines. Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology 14(2): 1–14. DOI: 10.26757/pjsb2020b14006 Reference page.
Lee, J.L. 2021. Description of a new species of Southeast Asian reed snake from northern Laos (Squamata: Colubridae: Genus Calamaria F. Boie, 1827) with a revised diagnosis of Calamaria yunnanensis Chernov, 1962. Journal of Natural History 55(9–10): 531–560. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2021.1909165 Reference page.
Yeung, H.Y., Lau, M.W.-N. & Yang, J.-H. 2022. A new species of Calamaria (Squamata: Colubridae) from Guangdong Province, southern China. Vertebrate Zoology 72: 433–444. DOI: 10.3897/vz.72.e84516 Reference page.

Links

Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Calamaria . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 6 December 2022.

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Eigentliche Zwergschlangen
English: Oriental Reed Snakes