| Calamaria ingeri | |
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| Conservation status | |
 Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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 | |
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Calamaria ingeri is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to Malaysia.
Geographic range
C. ingeri is endemic to Tioman Island in Malaysia.
Habitat
The preferred natural habitat of C. ingeri is forest.
Behavior
C. ingeri is terrestrial and fossorial.
Reproduction
C. ingeri is oviparous.
Etymology
The specific name, ingeri, is in honor of American herpetologist Robert F. Inger.
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ Calamaria ingeri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 10 June 2020.
- 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. ". Reptilia (Münster) 9 (50): 42–49. (in German).
- Voris HK, Resetar A (2020). "Robert Frederick Inger (1920–2019)". Copeia 108 (2): 426–429.
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