Tantilla

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Tantilla
Tantilla gracilis.jpg
Tantilla gracilis, flathead snake
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Colubrinae
Genus: Tantilla
Baird & Girard, 1853
Synonyms

Coluber, Homalocranion, Homalacranium, Leptocalamus, Lioninia, Pogonaspis[1]

Tantilla is a large genus of harmless New World snakes in the family Colubridae. The genus includes 65 species, which are commonly known as centipede snakes, blackhead snakes, and flathead snakes.

Description[]

Tantilla are small snakes, rarely exceeding 20 cm (8 inches) in total length (including tail). They are generally varying shades of brown, red or black in color. Some species have a brown body with a black head.

Behavior[]

Tantilla are nocturnal, secretive snakes. They spend most of their time buried in the moist leaf litter of semi-forested regions or under rocks and debris.

Diet[]

The diet of snakes of the genus Tantilla consists primarily of invertebrates, including scorpions, centipedes, spiders, and various insects.

Species[]

  • Barbour, 1925 - Barbour's centipede snake - Panama
  • (Boulenger, 1903) - Boulenger's centipede snake - Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia
  • Wilson & , 1980 - Andes centipede snake - Ecuador
  • Cope, 1876 - Costa Rica, El Salvador
  • (Günther, 1895) - Mexican blackhead snake - USA (Arizona, Texas, New Mexico), northern Mexico
  • Stuart, 1941 - Baird's black-headed snake[2] - Guatemala
  • Batista, Mebert, Lotzkat, & Wilson, 2016 - Chucantí centipede snake - Panama
  • (Günther, 1895) - Bocourt's black-headed snake[2] - Mexico
  • & Sazima, 2003 - Brazil
  • Mertens, 1952 - Mertens' centipede snake - El Salvador
  • & H.M. Smith, 1971 - Briggs' centipede snake - Mexico
  • Cope, 1876 - Pacific Coast centipede snake - Mexico
  • Cope, 1876 - Capistrata centipede snake - Peru
  • Wilson & Meyer, 1981 - Michoacán centipede snake - Mexico
  • et al., 2007 - Mexico
  • Hartweg, 1944 - Guerreran centipede snake - Mexico
  • Tantilla coronata Baird & Girard, 1853 - southeastern crowned snake - southeastern United States
  • Minton, 1956 - Big Bend blackhead snake - USA (Texas), Mexico
  • H.M. Smith, 1939 - Peten centipede snake - south Mexico, Belize, Guatemala
  • (Bocourt) - Deppe's centipede snake - Mexico
  • McCranie & Smith, 2017 - Honduras
  • H.M. Smith & , 1950 - yellow-lined centipede snake - Mexico
  • McCranie & Smith, 2017 - Honduras
  • Tantilla gracilis Baird & Girard, 1853 - flathead snake - southwestern United States, northern Mexico[3]
  • , 2004 - Peten centipede snake - Belize
  • Tantilla hobartsmithi Taylor, 1936 - southwestern blackhead snake - southwestern United States, northern Mexico
  • Campbell, 1998 - Guatemala
  • Wilson & , 1980 - mountain centipede snake - Ecuador
  • (Günther, 1895) - Jan's centipede snake - Mexico, Guatemala
  • Wilson, & Dixon, 1999 - Mexico
  • Wilson & , 1980 - Mena's centipede snake - Honduras
  • Antúnez-Fonseca, Castro, España, Townsend, & Wilson, 2020 - Honduras
  • Tantilla melanocephala (Linnaeus, 1758) - blackhead snake - Mexico, Central and South America.
  • Wilson & , 1987 - Ecuador
  • (Günther, 1863) - blackbelly centipede snake - Mexico, Guatemala, Belize
  • (Boulenger, 1914) - black centipede snake - Colombia
  • Tantilla nigriceps Kennicott, 1860 - plains blackhead snake - southwestern United States, northern Mexico
  • Wilson & Meyer, 1971 - Oaxacan centipede snake - Mexico
  • Townsend, Wilson, Medina-Flores, & Herrera, 2013 - Honduras
  • Tantilla oolitica , 1966 - rim rock crowned snake - USA (Florida)
  • Wilson, 1979 - Peters' blackhead snake
  • Tantilla planiceps (Blainville, 1835) - western blackhead snake - United States (California), northern Mexico
  • McCranie, 2011 - Honduras
  • Tantilla relicta , 1966 - Florida crowned snake - USA (Florida)
  • (Cope, 1860) - reticulate centipede snake - Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia
  • , & , 2002 - Mexico
  • Cope, 1876 - Big Bend blackhead snake - USA (Texas), Mexico
  • Cope, 1894 - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama
  • (Bocourt, 1883) - red earth centipede snake - Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama
  • (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854) - ringed centipede snake - Panama, Colombia, Venezuela
  • & Campbell, 2000 - Mexico
  • Taylor, 1949 - Potosí centipede snake - Mexico
  • , H.M. Smith & R.B. Smith, 1985 - Slavens' centipede snake - Mexico
  • McCranie & Smith, 2017 - Honduras
  • Dunn, 1928 - striped centipede snake - Mexico
  • (W. Peters, 1863) - banded centipede snake - Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador
  • Bocourt, 1883 - Central American centipede snake - Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua
  • Wilson, 1983 - Volcán Tacaná centipede snake - Mexico
  • Campbell & E.N. Smith, 1997 - Guatemala
  • (, 2016) - Tjiasmanto's centipede snake - Peru
  • (W. Peters, 1880) - Brazilian three-lined centipede snake - Brazil
  • H.M. Smith & , 1951 - Mexican three-lined centipede snake - Mexico
  • Tantilla tritaeniata H.M. Smith & Williams, 1966 - three-banded centipede snake - Honduras
  • (Hallowell, 1861) - Hallowell's centipede snake - Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvator
  • Campbell, 1998 - Guatemala
  • Stejneger, 1902 - Chihuahuan blackhead snake - USA (Arizona), northern Mexico
  • H.M. Smith, 1942 - Yaqui blackhead snake - USA (Arizona, New Mexico), Mexico

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Tantilla.

References[]

  1. ^ "Tantilla ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Tantilla bairdi, p. 14; T. bocourti, p. 29).
  3. ^ , (1968). "Morphological Variation in a Population of the Snake, Tantilla gracilis Baird and Girard". University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History. 17 (15): 613–629.

Further reading[]

  • Baird SF, Girard CF (1853). Catalogue of North American Reptiles in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Part I.—Serpents. Washington, District of Columbia: Smithsonian Institution. xvi + 172 pp. (Tantilla, new genus, p. 104).
  • Stebbins RC (2003). A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, Third Edition. The Peterson Field Guide Series. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin. xiii + 533 pp. ISBN 0-395-98272-3 (paperback). (Genus Tantilla, pp. 397–399).
  • Wright AH, Wright AA (1957). Handbook of Snakes of the United States and Canada. Ithaca and London: Comstock. 1,105 pp. (in 2 volumes) (Genus Tantilla, p. 722; key species and subspecies of Tantilla, pp. 723–725).

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