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</div> <div id="breadcrumb"> <a href="http://rjh.folium.ru/index.php/rjh/index" target="_parent">Home</a> > <a href="http://rjh.folium.ru/index.php/rjh/issue/view/56" target="_parent">Vol 16, No 2 (2009)</a> > <a href="http://rjh.folium.ru/index.php/rjh/article/view/139/0" class="current" target="_parent">Orlov</a> </div> <div id="content"> <div id="topBar"> </div> <div id="articleTitle"><h3>A New Species of the Genus <i>Calamaria</i> (Squamata: Ophidia: Colubridae) from the Central Highlands (Ngoc Linh Nature Reserve, Ngoc Linh Mountain, Kon Tum Province), Vietnam</h3></div> <div id="authorString"><em>Nikolai L. Orlov</em></div> <br /> <div id="articleAbstract"> <h4>Abstract</h4> <br /> <div>A new species of <em>Calamaria</em> is described from the Central Highlands, Ngoc Linh Nature Reserve, Ngoc Linh Mountain, Kon Tum Province, Vietnam. This species is characterized by a black body with blazing yellow-orange spots on the ventral part of the body. Total body length (holotype) 482 mm; tip of a thick tapering tail is slightly sharpened, tail length 34 mm; 13 rows of dorsal scales around the midbody; 11 rows of dorsal scales on the level of a single anal plate; 159 – 174 ventral scales, 20 – 26 divided subcaudals; four supralabials (second and third entering orbit), five infralabials; rostral large, triangular, its height equal to width, in contact with nasal, prefrontal and first supralabial shield, visible from above; paraparietal surrounded by six shields and scales; one preocular scale; eight modified maxillary teeth in holotype. The new taxon is known only from two specimens (holotype and paratype) collected in the tropical rainforest. It is the eighth species of <em>Calamaria</em> recorded from Vietnam.</div> <br /> </div> <div id="articleSubject"> <h4>Keywords</h4> <br /> <div>Central Highlands; Ngoc Linh Nature Reserve; Ngoc Linh Mountain; Kon Tum Province; Vietnam; Squamata; Ophidia; Colubridae; Calamaria sp. nov.; morphology; taxonomy</div> <br /> </div> <div id="articleFullText"> <h4>Full Text:</h4> <a href="http://rjh.folium.ru/index.php/rjh/article/view/139/201" class="file" target="_parent">PDF</a> </div> <div id="articleCitations"> <h4>References</h4> <br /> <div> <p><b>Darevsky I. S. and Orlov N. L.</b> (1992), «A new subspecies of the dwarf snake <i>Calamaria lowi ingermarxi</i> ssp. nov. (Serpentes, Colubridae) from southern Vietnam», <i>Asiatic Herpetol. 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