Calamaria ulmeri

Calamaria ulmeri
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Calamaria
Species:	C. ulmeri
Binomial name
Calamaria ulmeri Sackett, 1940

Calamaria ulmeri, commonly known as Ulmer's reed snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Sumatra.

Etymology

The specific name, ulmeri, is in honor of American mammalogist Frederick A. Ulmer, Jr. (1892–1974). ^[2]

Geographic range

C. ulmeri is found in northern Sumatra, and is only known from two specimens. ^{[1] [3]}

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of C. ulmeri is forest, at an altitude of 2,070 m (6,790 ft). ^[1]

Description

The holotype of C. ulmeri has a snout-to-vent length of 28.4 cm (11.2 in), and an incomplete tail. It is brownish dorsally, and it is yellow ventrally. ^[4]

Reproduction

C. ulmeri is oviparous. ^[3]

References

1. Iskandar, D.; Jenkins, H.; Das, I.; Auliya, M.; Inger, R.F.; Lilley, R. (2012). "Calamaria ulmeri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2012 e.T191951A2020194. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T191951A2020194.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN   978-1-4214-0135-5. (Calamaria ulmeri, p. 270).
3. Species Calamaria ulmeri at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
4. Inger & Marx (1965).

Further reading

• David P, Vogel G (1996). Snakes of Sumatra: An annotated checklist and key with natural history notes. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Edition Chimaira. 259 pp. ISBN   978-3930612086.
• Inger RF, Marx H (1965). "The Systematics and Evolution of the Oriental Colubrid Snakes of the Genus Calamaria ". Fieldiana Zoology49: 1–304. (Calamaria ulmeri, pp. 68–70, Figure 18).
• Sackett JT (1940). "Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition, 1936-1939. Part IV—The Reptiles". Notulae Naturae of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia41: 1–3. (Calamaria ulmeri, new species).