Calamaria schmidti, known commonly as Schmidt's reed snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Malaysia.
Etymology The specific name, schmidti, is in honor of American herpetologist Karl Patterson Schmidt.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Calamaria schmidti, p. 236).
Geographic range C. schmidti is found in the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of Borneo.
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of C. schmidti is forest, at altitudes of .
Description The holotype of C. schmidti has a total length of , which includes a tail long. The eye is much smaller than its distance from the mouth. There are four upper labials, and there is no preocular. The frontal is five or six times as wide as a supraocular.Marx & Inger (1955).
Diet C. schmidti preys upon earthworms.Das I (2006). A Photographic Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Borneo. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 144 pp. . (Calamaria schmidti, p. 27).
Reproduction C. schmidti is oviparous.
References
Further reading Inger RF, Marx H (1965). "The Systematics and Evolution of the Oriental Colubrid Snakes of the Genus Calamaria ". Fieldiana: Zoology 49: 1–304. (Calamaria schmidti, pp. 74–75 + Figure 1, bottom, on p. 17). Malkmus R, Manthey U, Vogel G, Hoffmann P, Kosuch J (2002). Amphibians and Reptiles of Mount Kinabalu (North Borneo). Rugell, Liechtenstein: Serpents Tale / Gantner Verlag Kommanditgesellschaft. 404 pp. . (Calamaria schmidti, p. 327). Marx H, Inger RF (1955). "Notes on Snakes of the Genus Calamaria ". Fieldiana · Zoology 37: 167–209. (Calamaria schmidti, new species, pp. 197–199, Figure 27).