Calamaria alidae

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| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Iskandar, D. |author2=Lilley, R. |author3=Jenkins, H. |author4=Das, I. |author5=Auliya, M. |author6=Inger, R.F. |date=2012 |title=Calamaria alidae |volume=2012 |page=e.T192085A2037964 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T192085A2037964.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

| genus = Calamaria

| species = alidae

| authority = Boulenger, 1920

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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.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (Calamaria alidae, p. 5).

Geographic range

C. alidae is endemic to western Sumatra in Indonesia.{{EMBL species|genus=Calamaria|species=alidae}}

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of C. alidae is forest, at an altitude of {{convert|100|m|ft|abbr=on}}.

Description

According to Boulenger (1920), the holotype of C. alidae measures {{convert|220|mm|in|abbr=on}} in total length, including the tail which is {{convert|20|mm|in|1|abbr=on}} long.

Reproduction

C. alidae is oviparous.