{{Short description|Species of snake}} {{speciesbox | image = | image_caption = | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{cite iucn |author1=Iskandar, D. |author1-link=Djoko Iskandar |author2=Jenkins, H. |author3=Das, I. |author3-link=Indraneil Das |author4=Auliya, M. |author4-link=Mark Auliya |author5=Inger, R.F. |author5-link=Robert F. Inger |author6=Lilley, R. |author6-link=Ron Lilley |year=2020 |amends=2012 |title=''Calamaria everetti '' |article-number=e.T192008A176109347 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T192008A176109347.en}}</ref> | genus = Calamaria | species = everetti | authority = Boulenger, 1893 | range_map = Calamaria everetti distribution.png }} '''''Calamaria everetti''''', also known commonly as '''Everett's reed snake''', is a species of snake in the subfamily Calamariinae of the family Colubridae.<ref name=RDB/> The species is native to Indonesia and Malaysia.<ref name=iucn/><ref name=RDB>{{EMBL species|genus=Calamaria|species=everetti}}</ref>
==Etymology== The specific name, ''everetti'', is in honor of British colonial administrator Alfred Hart Everett (1848–1898), who collected natural history specimens in the East Indies.<ref>{{EponymDictionaryReptiles}}</ref>{{rp|86}}
==Habitat== The preferred natural habitat of ''Calamaria everetti'' is forest, at elevations from near sea level to {{cvt|1,500|m|ft}}.<ref name=iucn/>
==Behavior== ''Calamaria everetti'' is terrestrial, living in the leaf litter on the forest floor.<ref name=iucn/>
==Reproduction== ''Calamaria everetti'' is oviparous.<ref name=RDB/>
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==Further reading== *{{cite journal |last1=Boulenger |first1=G.A. |author1-link=George Albert Boulenger |title=Descriptions of new Reptiles and Batrachians obtained in Borneo by Mr. A. Everett and Mr. C. Hose |journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London |date=1893 |volume=1893 |pages=522–528}} + Plates XLII–XLIV. (''Calamaria everetti'', new species, p. 525). *{{cite journal |last1=Boulenger |first1=G.A. |title=On the Herpetological Fauna of Palawan and Balabac |journal=Annals and Magazine of Natural History |series=Sixth Series |date=1894 |volume=14 |pages=81–90}} (''Calamaria everetti'', p. 84). *{{cite journal |last1=Inger |first1=R.F. |author1-link=Robert F. Inger |last2=Marx |first2=H. |author2-link=Hymen Marx |title=The Systematics and Evolution of the Oriental Snakes of the Genus ''Calamaria '' |journal=Fieldiana: Zoology |date=1965 |volume=49 |pages=1–304}} (''Calamaria everetti'', pp. 132–134, Figure 34). *{{cite journal |last1=Inger |first1=R.F. |last2=Voris |first2=H.K. |author2-link=Harold K. Voris |title=The biogeographical relations of the frogs and snakes of Sundaland |journal=Journal of Biogeography |date=2001 |volume=28 |pages=863–891}}
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Category:Calamaria Category:Snakes of Asia Category:Snakes of Indonesia Category:Snakes of Malaysia Category:Reptiles of the Philippines Category:Reptiles described in 1893 Category:Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger
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