Tantilla bairdi STUART, 1941

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Baird's Black-headed Snake
Synonym	Tantilla bairdi STUART 1941 Tantilla bairdi — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 294 Tantilla bairdi — WILSON 1999 Tantilla bairdi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 699
Distribution	C Guatemala (Alta Verapaz), elevation 1524-1550 m Type locality: Two km NE Finca Chichén (10 straight line km S Cobán) on Chamelco trail, ca. 1550 m elevation, Depto. Alta Verapaz, Guatemala.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: UMMZ 89223, adult female
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: A Tantilla with 15 dorsal scale rows, 163 abdominals, and 34 subcaudals. Brown above ancl red beneath, with a yellow nuchal collar and a postorbital light spot. Superficially close to T. schistosa, from which it differs in possessiiig more abdominals (Stuart 1941: 1). Additional details (720 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Only known from two specimens (Wilson & Mata-Silva 2015). Not mentioned in Campbell’s 1998 book on N Guatemala etc.
Etymology	Named after James Baird, “whose gifts to the University of Michigan have contributed to the support of my Guatemalan investigations” (cited after STUART 1941). James Baird (May 18, 1873 – May 16, 1953) was an American civil engineer, football player and coach. He played football for the University of Michigan from 1892 to 1895 and was captain of the 1894 team. He was also an assistant football coach at Michigan from 1897 to 1898. He worked for the George A. Fuller Co. for 23 years and eventually became its president. He later formed his own construction company called the James Baird Company. Baird directed the construction of many important buildings, including the Flatiron Building, Lincoln Memorial, Arlington Memorial Amphitheater, and Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (biographical data kindly supplied by Michael Watkins).
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Köhler, G. 2008. Reptiles of Central America. 2nd Ed. Herpeton-Verlag, 400 pp. Stuart,L.C. 1941. Some new snakes from Guatemala. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool., Univ. Michigan (No. 452): 1-7 - 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,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 bairdi. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles ( 380: 1. - get paper here Wilson,L.D. 1985. Rediscovery of Tantilla bairdi STUART and a definite Guatemalan locality for Tantilla taeniata (BOCOURT). Herpetological Review 16: 105 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/255762353315037 Google images

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