Tantilla reticulata (COPE, 1860)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Reticulate Centipede Snake, Litter Snake
Synonym	T[antilla]. reticulata COPE 1860: 77 Microdromus virgatus GÜNTHER 1873: 17 Homalocranium sexfasciatum FISCHER 1881: 225 Homalocranium virgatum — BOCOURT 1883 Tantilla sexfasciata — COPE 1887 Tantilla virgata — COPE 1887 Homalocranium reticulatum — GÜNTHER 1895 Tantilla reticulata — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 296 Tantilla reticulata — WILSON et al. 1977 Tantilla reticulata — SAVAGE 2002 Tantilla reticulata — WALLACH et al. 2014: 704 Tantilla reticulata — SUNYER & MARTÍNEZ-FONSECA 2023
Distribution	SE Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, NW Colombia (Pacific versant) Type locality: "Cocuyas de Veraguas, New Grenada" (= Cocuyas, Provo Veraguas, Panama).
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: lost, formerly ANSP 3361 (lost; E. Malnate, pers. comm., cited in Wilson 1999, Wilson 2015). Holotype: UMB 457 (= Ueberseemuseum Bremen) [Homalocranium sexfasciatum]
Diagnosis
Comment
Etymology	Named after Latin reticulatus, made like a net, net-like, reticulated. [“...Anteriorly the scales are edged with darker, presenting a reticulated appearance...”]. (from Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., May 2024)
References	Batista, Abel, Konrad Mebert, Sebastian Lotzkat and Larry David Wilson. 2016. A new species of centipede snake of the genus Tantilla (Squamata: Colubridae) from an isolated premontane forest in eastern Panama. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3(4): 949–960 - get paper here Berghe, Eric van den; Javier Sunyer, and Milton Salazar-Saavedra 2014. Tantilla reticulata Cope, 1860. Mesoamerican Herpetology 1 (2): 304 - get paper here Campbell, Jonathan A. 1998. Comments on the identities of certain Tantilla (Squamata: Colubridae) from Guatemala, with descriptions of two new species. Scientific Papers, Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, (7):1-14. - get paper here Cope, E.D. 1860. Catalogue of Colubridae in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1860: 74-79 - get paper here Fischer, J. G. 1881. Herpetologische Bemerkungen vorzugsweise über Stücke des Naturhistorischen Museums in Bremen. Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Bremen, 7: 225-238 [Nov. 1881] Köhler, G. 2008. Reptiles of Central America. 2nd Ed. Herpeton-Verlag, 400 pp. Pérez-Santos,C. & Moreno, A.G. 1988. Ofidios de Colombia. Museo reegionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, Monographie VI, 517 pp. Ray, Julie M. and Patty Ruback 2015. Updated checklists of snakes for the provinces of Panamá and Panamá Oeste, Republic of Panama. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (2): 168-188 - 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] 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 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, Larry David;McCranie, James R.;Porras, Louis 1977. Taxonomic notes on Tantilla (Serpentes: Colubridae) from Tropical America. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 76 (1): 49-56 - 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. Tantilla reticulata. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles ( 370: 1 - 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 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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