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Tantilla andinista WILSON & MENA, 1980

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Andes Centipede Snake 
SynonymTantilla andinista WILSON & MENA 1980
Tantilla andinista — SAWAYA & SAZIMA 2003
Tantilla andinista — WALLACH et al. 2014: 698 
DistributionEcuador (Chimborazo)

Type locality: 5 km E Alausí, elevation 2600-2750 m, Prov. Chimborazo, Ecuador.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: KU 135209 (adult female) 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A member of the Tantilla melanocephala group with a pattern consisting of a large amount of pale markings on the head on a dark brown background, a tan dorsal ground color, a narrow dark middorsal stripe (confined to middle of the middorsal row), and a narrow pale lateral stripe (confined to the upper half of row 3). The head pattern consists of an extensive pale marking on the snout, continuing posteriorly over the supraocular and anterolateral corner of the parietal downward onto the postoculars, anterior portion of the anterior temporal and supralabials 4, 5, and 6. The dark head cap is followed by a wide middorsally divided pale nuchal band, then a dark nape band, and finally by a pale neck band (Figs. 7, 12A). (Wilson & Mena 1980)


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CommentThis taxon is still known from but a single specimen (Wilson 1999, Wilson & Mata-Silva 2015) 
EtymologyNamed after the Andes, with the name meaning “wanderer among the Andes”. 
References
  • Sawaya, R.J. & Sazima, I. 2003. A new species of Tantilla (Serpentes: Colubridae) from southeastern Brazil. Herpetologica 59 (1): 119-126 - get paper here
  • Torres-Carvajal O, Pazmiño-Otamendi G, Salazar-Valenzuela D. 2019. Reptiles of Ecuador: a resource-rich portal, with a dynamic checklist and photographic guides. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 13 (1): [General Section]: 209–229 (e178) - 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 1985. Tantilla andinista Wilson and Mena. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles ( 378: 1 - get paper here
  • Wilson L D; Mena C E 1980. Systematics of the melanocephala group of the colubrid snake genus Tantilla. SAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY MEMOIRS 11: 5-58 - get paper here
  • 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. 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
 
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