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Tantilla oolitica TELFORD, 1966

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Rim Rock Crowned Snake 
SynonymTantilla oolitica TELFORD 1966
Tantilla oolitica — CONANT & COLLINS 1991: 220
Tantilla oolitica — CROTHER 2000
Tantilla oolitica — CROTHER et al. 2012
Tantilla oolitica — WALLACH et al. 2014: 704 
DistributionUSA (S Florida)

Type locality: In a vacant lot on southwest 27th Avenue near 27th Street, Miami, Dade County, Florida, USA.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: UF (formerly Florida State Museum of Natural History) 17326, adult male collected in April 1955, collector unknown. 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1935 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentSimilar species: The coastal dunes crowned snake has a lighthued band between its head and neck, white pigment on its head, and only one basal hook on each hemipenis. (Tennant 2003) 
EtymologyNamed after English oolite, rock consisting of small round grains usually of calcium carbonate cemented together + Latin -ica, coming from (a place). [“...I designate the distinctive species of Tantilla restricted to Dade and Monroe counties, Florida, after its association with the dominant geological formation of the area, the Miami oolite, as Tantilla oolitica new species...”]. 
References
  • Christman, S. P. 1980. Patterns of geographic variation in Florida snakes. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum of Biological Sciences 25 (3): 1 (157?)-256 - get paper here
  • Conant,R. & Collins,J.T. 1991. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern/Central North America, 3rd ed. Houghton Mifflin (Boston/New York), xx + 450 p.
  • Crother, B. I. (ed.) 2012. Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and Crocodilians, Seventh Edition. Herpetological Circular 39: 1-92
  • Enge, Kevin M. 2009. Venomous and non-venomous snakes of Florida. Publication of the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission. 16 pp.
  • Ernst, C.H., & Barbour, R.W. 1989. Snakes of eastern North America. George Mason Univ. Press, Fairfax, VA 282 pp.
  • HInes, Kirsten N. 2011. Status and distribution of the rim rock crowned snake,Tantilla oolitica. Herpetological Review 42 (3): 352-356 - get paper here
  • Krysko, Kenneth L.;Decker, John 1996. Geographic Distribution. Tantilla oolitica. Herpetological Review 27 (4): 215 - get paper here
  • O’Shea, M. 2018. The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London, - get paper here
  • Porras, L. 1979. New distributional records for Tantilla oolitica Telford (Reptilia, Serpentes, Colubridae) from the Florida Keys. Journal of Herpetology 13 (2): 218-220 - get paper here
  • SUBEDI, SURESH C.; SUSAN C. WALLS, WILLIAM J. BARICHIVICH, RYAN BOYLES, MICHAEL S. ROSS, J. AARON HOGAN & JOHN A. TUPY. 2022. Future changes in habitat availability for two specialist snake species in the imperiled rocklands of South Florida, USA. Conservation Science and Practice 4(10):1-12. - get paper here
  • Telford S R Jr 1980. Tantilla oolitica Telford. Rim rock crowned snake. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles ( 256: 1 - get paper here
  • Telford, Sam Rountree, Jr. 1966. Variation among the southeastern crowned snakes, genus Tantilla. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 10 (7): 261-304 - get paper here
  • Tennant, A. 2003. Snakes of North America - Eastern and Central Regions, revised edition. Lone Star Books, 605 pp.
  • Tennant, A. & Bartlett, R.D. 2000. Snakes of North America - Eastern and Central Regions. Gulf Publishing, Houston, TX, 588 pp.
  • 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
  • Yirka, Michael A., Joseph N. Flowers, Michael D. Martin, Kevin R. Messenger and Nathan A. Shepard. 2010. Geographic distribution: Tantilla oolitica. Herpetological Review 41 (3): 382 - get paper here
 
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