Calamaria schmidti
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In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
Calamaria schmidti, known commonly as Schmidt's reed snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Malaysia. The specific name, schmidti, is in honor of American herpetologist Karl Patterson Schmidt.
C. schmidti is found in the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of Borneo. The preferred natural habitat of C. schmidti is forest, at altitudes of 1,350–1,550 m (4,430–5,090 ft). The holotype of C. schmidti has a total length of 25.3 cm (10.0 in), which includes a tail 1.9 cm (0.75 in) 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.
C. schmidti preys upon earthworms. C. schmidti is oviparous. 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).
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kinabalu Park | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
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Likely
About 40% of wildlife watchers report a Schmidt's Reed Snake sighting in Kinabalu Park on a given day, based on 65 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 6th most-seen of the 69 reptiles we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
August
In that month about 60% of wildlife watchers report a Schmidt's Reed Snake in Kinabalu Park on a given day, against about 30% in March–April, June and September–October, the lowest months.
Between 2 and 5 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Schmidt's Reed Snake sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Kinabalu Park, in our data
Kinabalu Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Schmidt's Reed Snake sightings: about 40% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Calamaria
The closest relatives of the Schmidt's Reed Snake that you can see in Kinabalu Park (genus Calamaria) are Lined Reed Snake (about 30%) and Samarinda Reed Snake (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Schmidt's Reed Snake is recorded against all the reptiles logged in Kinabalu Park (65 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
