Calamaria ingeri

Calamaria ingeri
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Calamaria
Species:	C. ingeri
Binomial name
Calamaria ingeri Grismer, Kaiser & Yaakob, 2004

Calamaria ingeri is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to Malaysia.[2]

Geographic range

C. ingeri is endemic to Tioman Island in Malaysia.[1]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of C. ingeri is forest.[1]

Behavior

C. ingeri is terrestrial and fossorial.[1]

Reproduction

C. ingeri is oviparous.[2]

Etymology

The specific name, ingeri, is in honor of American herpetologist Robert F. Inger.[2][3]

References

1. Iskandar, D.; Jenkins, H.; Das, I.; Auliya, M.; Inger, R.F.; Lilley, R.; Vogel, G. (2012). "Calamaria ingeri ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012: e.T176626A1442469. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T176626A1442469.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
2. Calamaria ingeri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 10 June 2020.
3. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Calamaria ingeri, p. 129).

Further reading

• Grismer LL, Kaiser H, Yaakob NS (2004). "A new species of reed snake of the genus Calamaria H. Boie, 1827, from Pulau Tioman, Pahang, West Malaysia". Hamadryad 28 (1 & 2): 1–6. (Calamaria ingeri, new species).
• Grismer LL (2011). Amphibians and Reptiles of the Seribuat Archipelago (Peninsular Malaysia) – A Field Guide. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Edition Chimaira. 239 pp. ISBN 978-3899734829.
• Grossmann W, Tillack F (2004). "Palau Tioman – Perle im Südchinesischen Meer, Teil 1. [= Palau Tioman – Pearl of the South China Sea, Part 1.]". Reptilia (Münster) 9 (50): 42–49. (in German).
• Voris HK, Resetar A (2020). "Robert Frederick Inger (1920–2019)". Copeia 108 (2): 426–429.