Calamaria hilleniusi
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Genus: | Calamaria |
| Species: | C. hilleniusi
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| Calamaria hilleniusi | |
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Calamaria hilleniusi is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to Oceania and Southeast Asia.
Etymology
[edit]The specific name, hilleniusi, is in honor of Dutch herpetologist Dick Hillenius.[2]
Geographic range
[edit]C. hilleniusi is found in Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia.[3]
Habitat
[edit]The preferred natural habitat of C. hillenius is forest.[1]
Behavior
[edit]C. hilleniusi is terrestrial and semi-fossorial.[1]
Reproduction
[edit]C. hilleniusi is oviparous.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Iskandar, D.; Jenkins, H.; Das, I.; Auliya, M.; Inger, R.F.; Lilley, R. (2012). "Calamaria hilleniusi ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012: e.T176625A1442324. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T176625A1442324.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ 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 hilleniusi, p. 124).
- ^ a b Species Calamaria hilleniusi at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading
[edit]- Das, Indraneil (2006). A Photographic Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Borneo. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 144 pp. ISBN 0-88359-061-1. (Calamaria hilleniusi, p. 8).
- Inger, Robert F.; Marx, Hymen (1965). "The Systematics and Evolution of the Oriental Colubrid Snakes of the Genus Calamaria". Fieldiana: Zoology 49: 1-304. (Calamaria hilleniusi, new species, pp. 96–99, Figure 25).
- Inger, Robert F.; Voris, Harold K. (2001). "The biogeographical relations of the frogs and snakes of Sundaland". Journal of Biogeography 28: 863–891.
- Stuebing, Robert B.; Inger, Robert F.; Lardner, Björn (2014). Field Guide to the Snakes of Borneo, Second Edition. Borneo: Natural History Publications. 310 pp. ISBN 978-9838121514.
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