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Tantilla reticulata (COPE, 1860)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Reticulate Centipede Snake, Litter Snake 
SynonymT[antilla]. reticulata COPE 1860: 77
Microdromus virgatus GÜNTHER 1873: 17
Homalocranium sexfasciatum FISCHER 1881: 225
Homalocranium virgatum — BOCOURT 1883
Tantilla sexfasciata — COPE 1887
Tantilla virgata — COPE 1887
Homalocranium reticulatum — GÜNTHER 1895
Tantilla reticulata — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 296
Tantilla reticulata — WILSON et al. 1977
Tantilla reticulata — WILSON 1985
Tantilla reticulata — SAVAGE 2002
Tantilla reticulata — WALLACH et al. 2014: 704
Tantilla reticulata — SUNYER & MARTÍNEZ-FONSECA 2023 
DistributionSE Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, NW Colombia (Pacific versant)

Type locality: "Cocuyas de Veraguas, New Grenada" (= Cocuyas, Provo Veraguas, Panama).  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: lost, formerly ANSP 3361 (lost; E. Malnate, pers. comm., cited in Wilson 1999, Wilson 2015).
Holotype: UMB 457 (= Ueberseemuseum Bremen) [Homalocranium sexfasciatum] 
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Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Latin reticulatus, made like a net, net-like, reticulated. [“...Anteriorly the scales are edged with darker, presenting a reticulated appearance...”]. (from Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., May 2024) 
References
  • Batista, Abel, Konrad Mebert, Sebastian Lotzkat and Larry David Wilson. 2016. A new species of centipede snake of the genus Tantilla (Squamata: Colubridae) from an isolated premontane forest in eastern Panama. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3(4): 949–960 - get paper here
  • Berghe, Eric van den; Javier Sunyer, and Milton Salazar-Saavedra 2014. Tantilla reticulata Cope, 1860. Mesoamerican Herpetology 1 (2): 304 - get paper here
  • Bernal, R. 2025. Serpientes de Colombia-Guía de Campo. Serie de Guías Tropicales de Campo. 19: 396 pp. Conservación Internacional Colombia, Bogotá - get paper here
  • Campbell, Jonathan A. 1998. Comments on the identities of certain Tantilla (Squamata: Colubridae) from Guatemala, with descriptions of two new species. Scientific Papers, Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, (7):1-14. - get paper here
  • Cope, E.D. 1860. Catalogue of Colubridae in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1860: 74-79 - get paper here
  • Fischer, J. G. 1881. Herpetologische Bemerkungen vorzugsweise über Stücke des Naturhistorischen Museums in Bremen. Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Bremen, 7: 225-238 [Nov. 1881]
  • Köhler, G. 2008. Reptiles of Central America. 2nd Ed. Herpeton-Verlag, 400 pp.
  • Pérez-Santos,C. & Moreno, A.G. 1988. Ofidios de Colombia. Museo reegionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, Monographie VI, 517 pp.
  • Ray, Julie M. and Patty Ruback 2015. Updated checklists of snakes for the provinces of Panamá and Panamá Oeste, Republic of Panama. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (2): 168-188 - get paper here
  • Sasa, M., Arias, E., & Chaves, G. 2025. Annotated list of amphibians and reptiles of Costa Rica: The role of the Museum of Zoology in cataloging the country’s herpetological diversity. Revista de Biología Tropical, 73(S2): e64536-e64536 - get paper here
  • Savage, J.M. 2002. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Herpetofauna Between Two Continents, Between Two Seas. University of Chicago Press, 934 pp. [review in Copeia 2003 (1): 205]
  • Solorzano, A. 2004. Serpientes de Costa Rica - Snakes of Costa Rica. Editorial INBio, Costa Rica, 792 pp.
  • Sunyer, Javier 2014. An updated checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Nicaragua. Mesoamerican Herpetology 1 (2): 186–202. - get paper here
  • Sunyer, Javier & José́ Gabriel Martínez-Fonseca 2023. An updated country checklist to the amphibians and reptiles of Nicaragua. REVISTA NICARAGÜENSE DE BIODIVERSIDAD (100): 1-25 - get paper here
  • Townsend, Josiah H.; Larry David Wilson, Melissa Medina-Flores, and Luis A. Herrera-B. 2013. A New Species of Centipede Snake in the Tantilla taeniata Group (Squamata: Colubridae) from Premontane Rainforest in Refugio De Vida Silvestre Texíguat, Honduras. Journal of Herpetology Mar 2013, Vol. 47, No. 1: 191-200. - get paper here
  • Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
  • Wilson, L.D. 1999. Checklist and key to the species of the genus Tantilla (Serpentes: Colubridae), with some commentary on distribution. Smithsonian Herp. Inf. Serv. (122): 1-34 - get paper here
  • Wilson, Larry David and Vicente Mata-Silva 2015. A checklist and key to the snakes of the Tantilla clade (Squamata: Colubridae), with comments on distribution and conservation. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (4): 418 - get paper here
  • Wilson, Larry David;McCranie, James R.;Porras, Louis 1977. Taxonomic notes on Tantilla (Serpentes: Colubridae) from Tropical America. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 76 (1): 49-56 - get paper here
  • Wilson,L.D. 1982. A Review of the Colubrid Snakes of the Genus Tantilla of Central America. Milwaukee Publ. Mus. Contr. Biol. Geol. (52): 1-77 - get paper here
  • Wilson,L.D. 1985. Tantilla reticulata. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles ( 370: 1 - get paper here
  • Wilson,L.D. 1987. A Résumé of the Colubrid Snakes of the Genus Tantilla of South America. Milwaukee Publ. Mus. Contr. Biol. Geol. (68): 1-35 - get paper here
  • Wilson,L.D. & McCranie,J.R. 1999. The systematic status of Honduran populations of the Tantilla taeniata group (Serpentes: Colubridae), with notes on other populations. Amphibia-Reptilia 20 (3): 326-329 - get paper here
 
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