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Tantilla trilineata (PETERS, 1880)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Three-lined Centipede Snake 
SynonymLeptocalamus trilineatus PETERS 1880: 221
Tantilla trilineata — AMARAL 1929
Tantilla trilineata — BAUER et al. 1995: 72
Tantilla trilineata — WILSON 1999: 18
Tantilla trilineata — WALLACH et al. 2014: 707 
DistributionUnknown

Type locality: “Brasilien” (see comment)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZMB 9648 
Diagnosis 
CommentTerra typica: “Brasilien” = Brazil (in error according to Smith & Williams 1966).

Distribution unknown according to PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970. The MCZ has several specimens that are said to be from Honduras. Not in Honduras fide McCranie 2015 (checklist Honduras, snakes of Honduras).

Synonymy partly that of PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin tri = three, and linea = line. 
References
  • Bauer, A.M.; Günther,R. & Klipfel,M. 1995. The herpetological contributions of Wilhelm C.H. Peters (1815-1883). SSAR Facsimile Reprints in Herpetology, 714 pp.
  • Peters,W.C.H. 1880. Eine Mittheilung über neue oder weniger bekannte Amphibien des Berliner Zoologischen Museums (Leposoma dispar, Monopeltis (Phractogonus jugularis, Typhlops depressus, Leptocalamus drilineatus, Xenodon punctatus, Elapomorphus erythronotus, Hylomantis Monatsber. Königl.-Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1880: 217-224 - 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,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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