Calamaria alidae
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Genus: | Calamaria |
| Species: | C. alidae
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| Binomial name | |
| Calamaria alidae Boulenger, 1920
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Calamaria alidae, commonly known as the Bengkulu reed snake, is a species of snake in the subfamily Calamariinae of the family Colubridae. The species is native to Indonesia.
Etymology
[edit | edit source]The specific name, alidae, is in honor of Alida Brooks who collected natural history specimens in Sumatra with her husband Cecil Joslin Brooks.[2]
Geographic range
[edit | edit source]Calamaria alidae is endemic to western Sumatra in Indonesia.[3]
Habitat
[edit | edit source]The preferred natural habitat of Calamaria alidae is forest, at an altitude of 100 m (330 ft).[1]
Description
[edit | edit source]According to Boulenger (1920), the holotype of Calamaria alidae measures 220 mm (8.7 in) in total length, including the tail which is 20 mm (0.8 in) long.
Reproduction
[edit | edit source]Calamaria alidae is oviparous.[3]
References
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- ^ a b Species Calamaria alidae at The Reptile Database
Further reading
[edit | edit source]- Boulenger GA (1920). "Descriptions of a new Gecko and a new Snake from Sumatra". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 5: 281–283. (Calamaria alidae, new species, pp. 282–283).
- Inger RF, Marx H (1965). "The Systematics and Evolution of the Oriental Colubrid Snakes of the Genus Calamaria". Fieldiana: Zoology 49: 1–304. (Calamaria alidae, pp. 235–237, Figure 63).
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- Marx H, Inger RF (1955). "Notes on Snakes of the Genus Calamaria". Fieldiana: Zoology 37: 167–209. (Calamaria alidae, p. 200).
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