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''Tantilla'' is a large genus of harmless New World snakes in the family
Tantilla.
' Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. 303:1-4.Wilson, Larry David, and Vicente Mata-Silva. 2015.
A checklist and key to the snakes of the Tantilla clade (Squamata: Colubridae), with comments on taxonomy, distribution, and conservation.
' Mesoamerican Herpetology 2: 418–498.
"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. *''Tantilla hendersoni'' species:Peter J. Stafford, Stafford, 2004 – Peten centipede snake – Belize *''Tantilla hobartsmithi'' Edward Harrison Taylor, Taylor, 1936 – southwestern blackhead snake – southwestern United States, northern Mexico *''Tantilla impensa'' Jonathan A. Campbell, Campbell, 1998 – Guatemala *''Tantilla insulamontana'' Wilson & Mena, 1980 – mountain centipede snake – Ecuador *''Tantilla jani'' (Günther, 1895) – Giorgio Jan, Jan's centipede snake – Mexico, Guatemala *''Tantilla johnsoni'' Wilson, species:R. Kathryn Vaughan, Vaughn & James R. Dixon, Dixon, 1999 – Mexico *''Tantilla lempira'' Wilson & Mena, 1980 – Mena's centipede snake – Honduras *''Tantilla lydia'' species:Christopher Alberto Antúnez-Fonseca, Antúnez-Fonseca, species:Jocelyn Analid Castro, Castro, species:Farlem Gabriel España, España, species:Josiah H. Townsend, Townsend & Wilson, 2020 – Honduras *''Tantilla melanocephala'' (Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus, 1758) – blackhead snake – Mexico, Central America, Central and South America. *''Tantilla miyatai'' Wilson & species:R. Alec Knight, Knight, 1987 – Ecuador *''Tantilla moesta'' (Günther, 1863) – blackbelly centipede snake – Mexico, Guatemala, Belize *''Tantilla nigra'' (Boulenger, 1914) – black centipede snake – Colombia *''Plains black-headed snake, Tantilla nigriceps'' Robert Kennicott, Kennicott, 1860 – plains blackhead snake – southwestern United States, northern Mexico *''Tantilla oaxacae'' Wilson & John R. Meyer, Meyer, 1971 – Oaxacan centipede snake Mexico *''Tantilla olympia'' Townsend, Wilson, species:Melissa Medina-Flores, Medina-Flores & species:Luis A. Herrera-B., Herrera, 2013 – Honduras *''Tantilla oolitica'' species:Sam Rountree Telford, Telford, 1966 – rim rock crowned snake – USA (Florida) *''Tantilla petersi'' Wilson, 1979 – James A. Peters, Peters' blackhead snake *''Tantilla planiceps'' (Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, Blainville, 1835) – western blackhead snake – United States (California), northern Mexico *''Tantilla psittaca'' McCranie, 2011 – Honduras *''Tantilla relicta'' Telford, 1966 – Florida crowned snake – USA (Florida) *''Tantilla reticulata'' (Cope, 1860) – reticulate centipede snake – Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia *''Tantilla robusta'' Canseco-Márquez, species:Joseph R. Mendelson, Mendelson & species:Guadalupe Gutiérrez-Mayén, Gutiérrez-Mayén, 2002 – Mexico *''Tantilla rubra'' Cope, 1876 – Big Bend blackhead snake – USA (Texas), Mexico *''Tantilla ruficeps'' Cope, 1894 – Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama *''Tantilla schistosa'' (Marie Firmin Bocourt, Bocourt, 1883) – red earth centipede snake – Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama *''Tantilla semicincta'' (André Marie Constant Duméril, A.M.C. Duméril, Gabriel Bibron, Bibron & Auguste Duméril, A.H.A. Duméril, 1854) – ringed centipede snake – Panama, Colombia, Venezuela *''Tantilla sertula'' Wilson & Campbell, 2000 – Mexico *''Tantilla shawi'' Taylor, 1949 – San Luis Potosí, Potosí centipede snake – Mexico *''Tantilla slavensi'' species:Gonzalo Pérez-Higareda, Pérez-Higareda, H.M. Smith & Rozella B. Smith, R.B. Smith, 1985 – Slavens' centipede snake – Mexico *''Tantilla stenigrammi'' McCranie & E.N. Smith, 2017 – Honduras *''Tantilla striata'' Emmett Reid Dunn, Dunn, 1928 – striped centipede snake – Mexico *''Tantilla supracincta'' (Wilhelm Peters, W. Peters, 1863) – banded centipede snake – Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador *''Tantilla taeniata'' Marie Firmin Bocourt, Bocourt, 1883 – Central American centipede snake – Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua *''Tantilla tayrae'' Wilson, 1983 – Volcán Tacaná centipede snake – Mexico *''Tantilla tecta'' Campbell & E.N. Smith, 1997 – Guatemala *''Tantilla tjiasmantoi'' (species:Claudia Koch, Koch & species:Pablo Javier Venegas-Ibáñez, Venegas, 2016) – Tjiasmanto's centipede snake – Peru *''Tantilla trilineata'' (W. Peters, 1880) – Brazilian three-lined centipede snake – Brazil *''Tantilla triseriata'' H.M. Smith & species:Philip Wayne Smith, P.W. Smith, 1951 – Mexican three-lined centipede snake – Mexico *''Tantilla tritaeniata'' H.M. Smith & Kenneth L. Williams, Williams, 1966 – three-banded centipede snake – Honduras *''Tantilla vermiformis'' (Edward Hallowell (herpetologist), Hallowell, 1861) – Hallowell's centipede snake – Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvator *''Tantilla vulcani'' Jonathan A. Campbell, Campbell, 1998 – Guatemala *''Tantilla wilcoxi'' Leonhard Hess Stejneger, Stejneger, 1902 – Chihuahuan blackhead snake – USA (Arizona), northern Mexico *''Tantilla yaquia'' H.M. Smith, 1942 – Yaqui blackhead snake – USA (Arizona, New Mexico), Mexico ''Nota bene'': A Binomial nomenclature, binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Tantilla''.
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''Tantilla'' is a large genus of harmless New World snakes in the family Colubridae
Colubridae (, commonly known as colubrids , from la, coluber, 'snake') is a family of snakes. With 249 genera, it is the largest snake family. The earliest species of the family date back to the Oligocene epoch. Colubrid snakes are found on ever ...
. The genus includes 66 species, which are commonly known as centipede snakes, blackhead snakes, and flathead snakes.Wilson, Larry David. 1982. Tantilla.
' Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. 303:1-4.Wilson, Larry David, and Vicente Mata-Silva. 2015.
A checklist and key to the snakes of the Tantilla clade (Squamata: Colubridae), with comments on taxonomy, distribution, and conservation.
' Mesoamerican Herpetology 2: 418–498.
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'' arenocturnal
Nocturnality is an animal behavior characterized by being active during the night and sleeping during the day. The common adjective is "nocturnal", versus diurnal meaning the opposite.
Nocturnal creatures generally have highly developed sens ...
, 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,centipede
Centipedes (from New Latin , "hundred", and Latin , " foot") are predatory arthropods belonging to the class Chilopoda (Ancient Greek , ''kheilos'', lip, and New Latin suffix , "foot", describing the forcipules) of the subphylum Myriapoda, an ...
s, spiders, and various insects.
Species
*''Tantilla albiceps
''Tantilla'' is a large genus of harmless New World snakes in the family Colubridae. The genus includes 66 species, which are commonly known as centipede snakes, blackhead snakes, and flathead snakes.Wilson, Larry David. 1982. Tantilla. ...
'' Barbour, 1925 – Barbour's centipede snake – Panama
*''Tantilla alticola
''Tantilla'' is a large genus of harmless New World snakes in the family Colubridae. The genus includes 66 species, which are commonly known as centipede snakes, blackhead snakes, and flathead snakes.Wilson, Larry David. 1982. Tantilla. ...
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* George Albert Boulenger (1858–1 ...
, 1903) – Boulenger's centipede snake – Nicaragua, Costa Rica
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, Panama, Colombia
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*''Tantilla andinista
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& Mena, 1980 – Andes centipede snake – Ecuador
*'' Tantilla armillata'' Cope, 1876 – Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
*'' Tantilla atriceps'' ( Günther, 1895) – Mexican blackhead snake – USA
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( Arizona, Texas, New Mexico), northern Mexico
*''Tantilla bairdi'' :fr:Laurence Cooper Stuart, Stuart, 1941 – James Baird (civil engineer), Baird's black-headed snakespecies:Bo Beolens, Beolens, Bo; species:Michael Watkins, Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Tantilla bairdi'', p. 14; ''T. bocourti'', p. 29). – Guatemala
*''Tantilla berguidoi'' species:Abel Batista, Batista, species:Konrad Mebert, Mebert, species:Sebastian Lotzkat, Lotzkat & Wilson, 2016 – Chucantí centipede snake – Panama
*''Tantilla bocourti'' (Günther, 1895) – Marie Firmin Bocourt, Bocourt's black-headed snake – Mexico
*''Tantilla boipiranga'' species:Ricardo Jannini Sawaya, Sawaya & :fr:Ivan Sazima, Sazima, 2003 – Brazil
*''Tantilla brevicauda'' Robert Mertens, Mertens, 1952 – Mertens' centipede snake – El Salvador
*''Tantilla briggsi'' species:Alan H. Savitzky, Savitzky & Hobart Muir Smith, H.M. Smith, 1971 – Briggs' centipede snake – Mexico
*''Tantilla calamarina'' Cope, 1876 – Pacific Coast centipede snake – Mexico
*''Tantilla capistrata'' Cope, 1876 – Capistrata centipede snake – Peru
*''Tantilla cascadae'' species:Larry David Wilson, Wilson & John R. Meyer, Meyer, 1981 – Michoacán centipede snake – Mexico
*''Tantilla ceboruca'' species:Luis Canseco-Márquez, Canseco-Márquez et al., 2007 – Mexico
*''Tantilla coronadoi'' Norman Edouard Hartweg, Hartweg, 1944 – Guerreran centipede snake – Mexico
*''Tantilla coronata'' Spencer Fullerton Baird, Baird & Charles Frédéric Girard, Girard, 1853 – southeastern crowned snake – southeastern United States
*''Tantilla cucullata'' Sherman A. Minton, Minton, 1956 – Big Bend (Texas), Big Bend blackhead snake – USA (Texas), Mexico
*''Tantilla cuniculator'' H.M. Smith, 1939 – Peten centipede snake – south Mexico, Belize, Guatemala
*''Tantilla deppei'' (Marie Firmin Bocourt, Bocourt) – Ferdinand Deppe, Deppe's centipede snake – Mexico
*''Tantilla excelsa'' species:James R. McCranie, McCranie & species:Eric Nelson Smith, E.N. Smith, 2017 – Honduras
*''Tantilla flavilineata'' H.M. Smith & species:William Leslie Burger, Burger, 1950 – yellow-lined centipede snake – Mexico
*''Tantilla gottei'' McCranie & E.N. Smith, 2017 – Honduras
*''Tantilla gracilis'' Spencer Fullerton Baird, Baird & Charles Frédéric Girard, Girard, 1853 – flathead snake – southwestern United States, northern Mexicospecies:Laurence M. Hardy, Hardy LM, species:Charles J. Cole, Cole CJ (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. *''Tantilla hendersoni'' species:Peter J. Stafford, Stafford, 2004 – Peten centipede snake – Belize *''Tantilla hobartsmithi'' Edward Harrison Taylor, Taylor, 1936 – southwestern blackhead snake – southwestern United States, northern Mexico *''Tantilla impensa'' Jonathan A. Campbell, Campbell, 1998 – Guatemala *''Tantilla insulamontana'' Wilson & Mena, 1980 – mountain centipede snake – Ecuador *''Tantilla jani'' (Günther, 1895) – Giorgio Jan, Jan's centipede snake – Mexico, Guatemala *''Tantilla johnsoni'' Wilson, species:R. Kathryn Vaughan, Vaughn & James R. Dixon, Dixon, 1999 – Mexico *''Tantilla lempira'' Wilson & Mena, 1980 – Mena's centipede snake – Honduras *''Tantilla lydia'' species:Christopher Alberto Antúnez-Fonseca, Antúnez-Fonseca, species:Jocelyn Analid Castro, Castro, species:Farlem Gabriel España, España, species:Josiah H. Townsend, Townsend & Wilson, 2020 – Honduras *''Tantilla melanocephala'' (Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus, 1758) – blackhead snake – Mexico, Central America, Central and South America. *''Tantilla miyatai'' Wilson & species:R. Alec Knight, Knight, 1987 – Ecuador *''Tantilla moesta'' (Günther, 1863) – blackbelly centipede snake – Mexico, Guatemala, Belize *''Tantilla nigra'' (Boulenger, 1914) – black centipede snake – Colombia *''Plains black-headed snake, Tantilla nigriceps'' Robert Kennicott, Kennicott, 1860 – plains blackhead snake – southwestern United States, northern Mexico *''Tantilla oaxacae'' Wilson & John R. Meyer, Meyer, 1971 – Oaxacan centipede snake Mexico *''Tantilla olympia'' Townsend, Wilson, species:Melissa Medina-Flores, Medina-Flores & species:Luis A. Herrera-B., Herrera, 2013 – Honduras *''Tantilla oolitica'' species:Sam Rountree Telford, Telford, 1966 – rim rock crowned snake – USA (Florida) *''Tantilla petersi'' Wilson, 1979 – James A. Peters, Peters' blackhead snake *''Tantilla planiceps'' (Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, Blainville, 1835) – western blackhead snake – United States (California), northern Mexico *''Tantilla psittaca'' McCranie, 2011 – Honduras *''Tantilla relicta'' Telford, 1966 – Florida crowned snake – USA (Florida) *''Tantilla reticulata'' (Cope, 1860) – reticulate centipede snake – Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia *''Tantilla robusta'' Canseco-Márquez, species:Joseph R. Mendelson, Mendelson & species:Guadalupe Gutiérrez-Mayén, Gutiérrez-Mayén, 2002 – Mexico *''Tantilla rubra'' Cope, 1876 – Big Bend blackhead snake – USA (Texas), Mexico *''Tantilla ruficeps'' Cope, 1894 – Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama *''Tantilla schistosa'' (Marie Firmin Bocourt, Bocourt, 1883) – red earth centipede snake – Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama *''Tantilla semicincta'' (André Marie Constant Duméril, A.M.C. Duméril, Gabriel Bibron, Bibron & Auguste Duméril, A.H.A. Duméril, 1854) – ringed centipede snake – Panama, Colombia, Venezuela *''Tantilla sertula'' Wilson & Campbell, 2000 – Mexico *''Tantilla shawi'' Taylor, 1949 – San Luis Potosí, Potosí centipede snake – Mexico *''Tantilla slavensi'' species:Gonzalo Pérez-Higareda, Pérez-Higareda, H.M. Smith & Rozella B. Smith, R.B. Smith, 1985 – Slavens' centipede snake – Mexico *''Tantilla stenigrammi'' McCranie & E.N. Smith, 2017 – Honduras *''Tantilla striata'' Emmett Reid Dunn, Dunn, 1928 – striped centipede snake – Mexico *''Tantilla supracincta'' (Wilhelm Peters, W. Peters, 1863) – banded centipede snake – Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador *''Tantilla taeniata'' Marie Firmin Bocourt, Bocourt, 1883 – Central American centipede snake – Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua *''Tantilla tayrae'' Wilson, 1983 – Volcán Tacaná centipede snake – Mexico *''Tantilla tecta'' Campbell & E.N. Smith, 1997 – Guatemala *''Tantilla tjiasmantoi'' (species:Claudia Koch, Koch & species:Pablo Javier Venegas-Ibáñez, Venegas, 2016) – Tjiasmanto's centipede snake – Peru *''Tantilla trilineata'' (W. Peters, 1880) – Brazilian three-lined centipede snake – Brazil *''Tantilla triseriata'' H.M. Smith & species:Philip Wayne Smith, P.W. Smith, 1951 – Mexican three-lined centipede snake – Mexico *''Tantilla tritaeniata'' H.M. Smith & Kenneth L. Williams, Williams, 1966 – three-banded centipede snake – Honduras *''Tantilla vermiformis'' (Edward Hallowell (herpetologist), Hallowell, 1861) – Hallowell's centipede snake – Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvator *''Tantilla vulcani'' Jonathan A. Campbell, Campbell, 1998 – Guatemala *''Tantilla wilcoxi'' Leonhard Hess Stejneger, Stejneger, 1902 – Chihuahuan blackhead snake – USA (Arizona), northern Mexico *''Tantilla yaquia'' H.M. Smith, 1942 – Yaqui blackhead snake – USA (Arizona, New Mexico), Mexico ''Nota bene'': A Binomial nomenclature, binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Tantilla''.
References
Further reading
*Spencer Fullerton Baird, Baird SF, Charles Frédéric Girard, 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). *Robert C. Stebbins, 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. (paperback). (Genus ''Tantilla'', pp. 397–399). *Albert Hazen WWright 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).External links
*Illinois Natural History Amphibian and Reptile Collection
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