Calamaria pavimentata

Taxobox | name = Collared Reed Snake
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Serpentes
familia = Colubridae
genus = "Calamaria"
species = "C. pavimentata"
binomial = "Calamaria pavimentata"
binomial_authority = 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.

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". [Boulenger, G. A. 1890. Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia.]

Total length 12.5 inches; tail 0.6.

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.

Notes

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.

External links

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