Calamaria ulmeri

Calamaria ulmeri is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. It is commonly known as Ulmer's reed snake.

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

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 Indonesia, and is only known from two specimens.[1]

References

1. "Calamaria ulmeri ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. 2011. Retrieved 25 December 2016.old-form url, |volume= / |date= mismatch
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).

External links

• Species Calamaria ulmeri at The Reptile Database

Further reading

• 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 Philadelphia 41: 1–3. (Calamaria ulmeri, new species).