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A total of 25 snake species have been recorded and include regal python Python reticularus, reed snake Calamaria borneensis and C. melanota.
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This species resembles Calamaria diadema, which is also found in Western
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855
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_Calamariæ_, which abound on the continent of India and in the islands are not to be found in Ceylon; where they would appear to be replaced by two singular genera, the _Aspidura_ and _Haplocercus_, These latter have only one series of shields below the tail, whilst most other harmless snakes (_Calamaria_ included) have a double series of sub-candals.
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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{61b} Since described from these specimens as _Calamaria monticola_, and _Dipsas monticola_.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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In 1897 the popularity of these apprenticeship schools led the Alliance to establish two so-called “Popular” Girls’ Schools in the new suburbs of Hirsch and Calamaria.
Salonika: Female Education at the end of the Nineteenth Century. 2009
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