Calamaria griswoldi, also known commonly as the dwarf reed snake and the lined reed snake, is a species of snake in the subfamily Calamariinae of the family Colubridae. The species is native to Borneo.
Etymology The specific name, griswoldi, is in honor of American ornithologist John Augustus Griswold Jr. (1912–1991), who collected the holotype.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Calamaria griswoldi, p. 109).
Geographic distribution Calamaria griswoldi is endemic to Borneo with records from Sabah and Sarawak (Malaysia).
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of Calamaria griswoldi is forest, at elevations of .
Description Calamaria griswoldi is a small species. Maximum recorded total length (tail included) is .
Reproduction Calamaria griswoldi is oviparous.
References
Further reading Das I (2012). A Naturalist's Guide to the Snakes of South-East Asia: Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar, Borneo, Sumatra, Java and Bali. Oxford, England: John Beaufoy Publishing. 176 pp. . (Calamaria griswoldi, pp. 92–94, Figure 23). Loveridge A (1938). "New Snakes of the Genera Calamaria, Bungarus, and Trimeresurus from Mount Kinabalu, North Borneo". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 51: 43–46. (Calamaria lumbricoidea griswoldi, new subspecies, pp. 43–44). Marx H, Inger RF (1955). "Notes on Snakes of the Genus Calamaria ". Fieldiana Zoology 37 (7): 167–209. (Calamaria griswoldi, new status, pp. 183–185).