Calamaria hilleniusi is a species of snake in the subfamily Calamariinae of the family Colubridae. The species is native to Oceania and Southeast Asia.
Etymology The specific name, hilleniusi, is in honor of Dutch herpetologist Dick Hillenius.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Calamaria hilleniusi, p. 124).
Geographic distribution Calamaria hilleniusi is found in Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia. www.reptile-database.org.
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of Calamaria hillenius is forest.
Behavior Calamaria hilleniusi is terrestrial and semi-fossorial.
Reproduction Calamaria hilleniusi is oviparous.
References
Further reading Das, Indraneil (2006). A Photographic Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Borneo. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 144 pp. . (Calamaria hilleniusi, p. 8). Inger, Robert F.; Marx, Hymen (1965). "The Systematics and Evolution of the Oriental Colubrid Snakes of the Genus Calamaria". Fieldiana: Zoology 49: 1-304. (Calamaria hilleniusi, new species, pp. 96–99, Figure 25). Inger, Robert F.; Voris, Harold K. (2001). "The biogeographical relations of the frogs and snakes of Sundaland". Journal of Biogeography 28: 863–891. Stuebing, Robert B.; Inger, Robert F.; Lardner, Björn (2014). Field Guide to the Snakes of Borneo, Second Edition. Borneo: Natural History Publications. 310 pp. .