Range Extension of the Calamaria Reed Snake, Liopeltis calamaria (Günther 1858) from the Western Ghats, Maharashtra, India

A New Record of the Calamaria Reedsnake, Liopeltis calamaria (Günther 1858), from the Western Himalayan Region of Himachal Pradesh, India

“…The total length of the snake was 360 mm, SVL 260 mm, relative tail length 27.7%, and weight 8 g. Using characters described in Günther (1858), Smith (1943), Chunekar and Alekar (2015), Bhattarai et al (2018), Amarasinghe et al (2020), andNarayanan et al (2020), and with help from Rakeshwar Kapoor and Siddharth Singh, we tentatively identified the snake as a Calamaria Reedsnake. Photographs (Fig.…”