Calamaria alidae explained

Calamaria alidae, commonly known as the Bengkulu reed snake, is a species of snakes in the family Colubridae.

Etymology

The specific name, alidae, is in honor of Alida Brooks who collected natural history specimens in Sumatra with her husband Cecil Joslin Brooks.^[1]

Geographic range

C. alidae is endemic to western Sumatra in Indonesia.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of C. alidae is forest, at an altitude of 100m (300feet).

Description

According to Boulenger (1920), the holotype of C. alidae measures 220mm in total length, including the tail which is 201NaN1 long.

Reproduction

C. alidae is oviparous.

Further reading

• 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).
• Marx H, Inger RF (1955). "Notes on Snakes of the Genus Calamaria". Fieldiana: Zoology 37: 167–209. (Calamaria alidae, p. 200).

Notes and References

1. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Calamaria alidae, p. 5).