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Tantilla bairdi STUART, 1941

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Baird's Black-headed Snake 
SynonymTantilla bairdi STUART 1941
Tantilla bairdi — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 294
Tantilla bairdi — WILSON 1999
Tantilla bairdi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 699 
DistributionC 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.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: UMMZ 89223, adult female 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: 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).


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CommentOnly known from two specimens (Wilson & Mata-Silva 2015). Not mentioned in Campbell’s 1998 book on N Guatemala etc. 
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. Rediscovery of Tantilla bairdi STUART and a definite Guatemalan locality for Tantilla taeniata (BOCOURT). Herpetological Review 16: 105 - get paper here
  • Wilson,L.D. 1985. Tantilla bairdi. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles ( 380: 1. - get paper here
 
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