. Asiatic herpetological research. Reptiles -- Asia Periodicals; Amphibians -- Asia Periodicals. B FIG. 1. A- Dorsal and B- lateral view of ZIN 20006, the holotype of Calamaria lowi ingermarxi. Introduction According to the last revision of the genus of oriental colubrid dwarf snakes Calamaria H. Boie, 1827, the widely distributed species Calamaria lowi Boulenger, 1877 forms three well distinct subspecies. Of them, the nominative subspecies C. I. lowi Boulenger occurs on Kalimantan Island, Thailand, C. /. wermuthi Marx and Inger is known from a single specimen from the western part of Java Isl
. Asiatic herpetological research. Reptiles -- Asia Periodicals; Amphibians -- Asia Periodicals. B FIG. 1. A- Dorsal and B- lateral view of ZIN 20006, the holotype of Calamaria lowi ingermarxi. Introduction According to the last revision of the genus of oriental colubrid dwarf snakes Calamaria H. Boie, 1827, the widely distributed species Calamaria lowi Boulenger, 1877 forms three well distinct subspecies. Of them, the nominative subspecies C. I. lowi Boulenger occurs on Kalimantan Island, Thailand, C. /. wermuthi Marx and Inger is known from a single specimen from the western part of Java Island, Indonesia, and C. I. gimletti Boulenger is distributed on the Malay Peninsular mainland and the two adjoining small islands of Aor and Riouw (Inger and Marx, 1965). The northern most location of this subspecies on the Malay Peninsula is Kalantan where the holotype comes from. In 1982, during field herpetological work in Vietnam, a specimen of C. lowi was taken by the authors for the first time in Indochina, more than 1000 km to the northeast of the known mainland distribution of the species. A detailed study of this specimen showed that it belongs to a subspecies new to science. Its description is given below. 1992 by Asiatic Herpetological Research. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Asiatic Herpetological Research Society; Chung-kuo liang chi pa hsing tung wu hs©eh hui. Berkeley, Calif. : Asiatic Herpetological Research Society : Chinese Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles
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