Calamaria jinggangensis Found in Rongjiang County,Guizhou,China
Calamaria jinggangensis was described from Jiangxi Province,China by Cai et al.2023,based on 5 road-killed specimens.In June 2023,one male snake specimen of the genus Calamaria was collected in Rongjiang County,Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture,Guizhou Province,China(26°06′48″ N,108°38′01″ E,altitude 1 080 m)during a field survey.After external morphological(Fig.1,2)and morphometric measurements examination,the specimen from Rongjiang County was similar to C.jinggangensis.Molecular phylogenetic analyses revealed that the uncorrected pairwise distances(p-distance)between the specimen and C.jinggangensis were about 0.85%(Table 1).The new discovery in the present study was the first record of C.jinggangensis in Guizhou Province,China,which expands the distribution area,and enriches the morphological data of the species.