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Calamaria Reed Snake

Gongylosoma calamaria (Günther, 1858)

Also calledCalamaria-Halsbandnatter (deu)

This species is in the Catalogue of Life but not yet in the 2023 GBIF backbone or on iNaturalist: most likely it was described, or split from another species, very recently. What is known so far is below.

Recorded from
Sri Lanka, India (Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh), Nepal (Chitwan)
Also published as
Cyclophis calamaria Günther, 1858; Cyclophis nasalis Günther, 1864; Homalosoma baliolum Jan, 1862; Liopeltis calamaria indica Deraniyagala, 1955
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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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References

  • Boulenger, George A. (1890). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, Xviii, 541 Pp.
  • Bhattarai, Santosh, Chalise, Lina, Gurung, Ashish, Pokheral, Chiranjibi Pd, Subedi, Naresh and Sharma, & Vivek. (2017). Geographic Distribution: Liopeltis calamaria (Lined Stripe-necked Snake). Herpetological Review 48 (1): 129.
  • Ganesh, S.R.; A. Kalaimani, P. Karthik, N. Baskaran, R. Nagarajan & S.R.Chandramouli. (2018). Herpetofauna of Southern Eastern Ghats, India – II From Western Ghats to Coromandel Coast. Asian Journal of Conservation Biology, July 2018. Vol. 7 No. 1, Pp. 28-45.
  • Karunarathna, SURANJAN, D. M. S., & NAALIN PERERA, W. P. (2010). New Distribution Records for Liopeltis calamaria (Günther, 1858) (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae), with Notes on its Bioecology and Threats in Sri Lanka. [in German]. Sauria 32 (2): 49-55.
  • Lenz, & Norbert. (2012). Von Schmetterlingen und Donnerdrachen - Natur und Kultur in Bhutan. Karlsruher Naturhefte 4, Naturkundemuseum Karlsruhe, 124 Pp.
  • Taylor, Edward H. (1950). The snakes of Ceylon. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 33 (14): 519-603.

From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.