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Tantilla vermiformis (HALLOWELL, 1861)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Hallowell's Centipede Snake
G: Wurm-Schwarzkopfschlange 
SynonymLioninia vermiformis HALLOWELL 1861: 484
Tantilla vermiformis — COPE 1861: 74
Homalocranium vermiformis — GÜNTHER 1895
Homalocranium vermiforme — BOULENGER 1896
Tantilla vermiformis — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 298
Tantilla vermiformis — WILSON 1999
Tantilla vermiformis — SAVAGE 2002
Tantilla vermiformis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 707
Tantilla vermiformis — SUNYER & MARTÍNEZ-FONSECA 2023 
DistributionNicaragua (Pacific versant), NW Costa Rica (Pacific versant), El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala

Type locality: "Nicaragua."  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesLectotype: USNM 32338, National Museum of Natural History (originally catalogued as USNM 5792, part of a lot), adult (?) female, collected by Wright on North Pacific Exploring Expedition, originally catalogued February-March 1861 and recatalogued 18 September 1903, after being returned to the USNM from Cope's estate (designated by Van Devender and Cole, 1977). 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (2901 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Latin vermiformis, worm-like. [“...It belongs to the family of Calamarians, as defined by Dumeril & Bibron, viz.: Body very slender, rounded, and about the same thickness from the head to the tail. ...”]. 
References
  • Antúnez-Fonseca, C. A., Ramos-Galdamez, J., Jiménez-Córdova, O. E., & Wilson, L. D. 2020. First continental record of Tantilla vermiformis Hallowell, 1861 (Squamata, Colubridae) for Honduras. Check List, 16: 1153 - get paper here
  • Ariano-Sánchez, Daniel. 2015. Geographic Distribution: Tantilla vermiformis (Hallowell's centipede snake). Herpetological Review 46 (2): 221-222 - get paper here
  • Cope, E.D. 1861. Some remarks defining the following species of Reptilia Squamata. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1861: 75-76 - get paper here
  • Devender, Robert Wayne Van; Cole, Charles J. 1977. Notes on a colubrid snake, Tantilla vermiformis, from Central America. American Museum Novitates (2625): 1-12 - get paper here
  • Hallowell, E. 1861. Report upon the Reptilia of the North Pacific Exploring Expedition, under command of Capt. John Rogers, U. S. N. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 12 [1860]: 480 - 510 - get paper here
  • Köhler, G. 2008. Reptiles of Central America. 2nd Ed. Herpeton-Verlag, 400 pp.
  • McCranie, James R. 2015. A checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Honduras, with additions, comments on taxonomy, some recent taxonomic decisions, and areas of further studies needed. Zootaxa 3931 (3): 352–386 - get paper here
  • McCranie, James R., and Alexander Gutsche 2016. The herpetofauna of islands in the Golfo de Fonseca and adjacent waters, Honduras. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3 (4): 842–899 - get paper here
  • McCranie, James R., Leonardo Valdés Orellana and Alexander Gutsche. 2013. New departmental records for amphibians and reptiles in Honduras. Herpetological Review 44 (2): 288-289 - get paper here
  • Palacios-Aguilar, R., Fucsko, L. A., Jiménez-Arcos, V. H., Wilson, L. D., & Mata-Silva, V. 2022. Out of the Past: A new species of Tantilla of the calamarina group (Squamata: Colubridae) from southeastern coastal Guerrero, Mexico, with comments on relationships within members of the group. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation, 16(2): 120-132 - get paper here
  • Peters, James A.; Donoso-Barros, Roberto & Orejas-Miranda, Braulio 1970. Catalogue of the Neotropical Squamata: Part I Snakes. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 297: 347 pp. - get paper here
  • Savage, J.M. 2002. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Herpetofauna Between Two Continents, Between Two Seas. University of Chicago Press, 934 pp. [review in Copeia 2003 (1): 205]
  • Solís, J. M., L. D. Wilson, and J. H. Townsend. 2014. An updated list of the amphibians and reptiles of Honduras, with comments on their nomenclature. Mesoamerican Herpetology 1: 123–144 - get paper here
  • Solorzano, A. 2004. Serpientes de Costa Rica - Snakes of Costa Rica. Editorial INBio, Costa Rica, 792 pp.
  • Sunyer, Javier 2014. An updated checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Nicaragua. Mesoamerican Herpetology 1 (2): 186–202. - get paper here
  • Sunyer, Javier & José́ Gabriel Martínez-Fonseca 2023. An updated country checklist to the amphibians and reptiles of Nicaragua. REVISTA NICARAGÜENSE DE BIODIVERSIDAD (100): 1-25 - 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. 1987. Tantilla vermiformis. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles ( 410: 1. - get paper here
  • Wilson,L.D. & Campbell,J.A. 2000. A new species of the Calamarina group of the colubrid snake genus Tantilla (Reptilia: Squamata) from Guerrero, Mexico, with a review of and key to members of the group. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 113 (3): 820-827 - get paper here
 
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