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Tantilla flavilineata SMITH & BURGER, 1950

IUCN Red List - Tantilla flavilineata - Endangered, EN
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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Yellow-lined Centipede Snake
S: Culebra Centipedívora de Lineas Amarillas 
SynonymTantilla flavilineata SMITH & BURGER 1950: 117
Tantilla flavilineata — LINER 1994
Tantilla flavilineata — LINER 2007
Tantilla flavilineata — WILSON & MATA-SILVA 2014: 33
Tantilla flavilineata — WALLACH et al. 2014: 701 
DistributionMexico (Oaxaca, Puebla)

Elevation: 1,890–2,438 m (WILSON & MATA-SILVA 2014, Contreras-Calvario et al. 2022)

Type locality: Mexico: 8 mi SE of Nochixtlan, Oaxaca.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: INHS (= UIMNH) 6321; W.L. Burger; August 23, 1949. Paratypes: INHS. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A Tanttilla with two dorsolateral and a median light stripe, an uninterrupted light nuchal collar, 160-164 ventrals, 48-56 caudals. Related to, of Mexican species, T. striata and T. jani, but differing from both in number of ventrals or of caudals and in position of lateral stripe. Closely similar to T. tvirgataof Costa Rica, having dark and light stripes of approximately equal width, but ventrals and caudals less numerous. (Smith & Burger 1950). 
CommentActivity: nocturnal 
EtymologyThe name flavilineata is “derived from the Latin flavus, meaning ‘yellow,’ and lineatus, past participle of lineare, meaning ‘to fashion into a straight line,’ in reference to the pale middorsal stripe present in this species” (Wilson, 1985). 
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
  • 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
  • Canseco-Márquez, L., & Gutiérrrez-Mayén, M.G. 2010. Anfibios y reptiles del Valle de Tehuacán-Cuicatlán. Comisión Nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad, México D.F., Mexico, 302 pp - get paper here
  • Casas-Andreu, G., F.R. Méndez-De la Cruz and X. Aguilar-Miguel. 2004. Anfibios y Reptiles; pp. 375–390, in A.J.M. García-Mendoza, J. Ordoñez and M. Briones-Salas (ed.). Biodiversidad de Oaxaca. Instituto de Biología, UNAM-Fondo Oaxaqueño para la Conservación de la Naturaleza-World Wildlife Fund, México, D. F.
  • Contreras-Calvario AI, Avalos-Vela R, Orozco C, Jiménez-Arcos VH 2022. First record of Tantilla flavilineata Smith & Burger, 1950 (Squamata, Colubridae) for Puebla, Mexico. Check List 18(5): 979-982 - get paper here
  • Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp
  • Liner, E.A. 1994. Scientific and common names for the Amphibians and Reptiles of Mexico in English and Spanish. Herpetological Circular 23: 1-113
  • Liner, Ernest A. 2007. A CHECKLIST OF THE AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES OF MEXICO. Louisiana State University Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural Science 80: 1-60 - get paper here
  • Mata-Silva, Vicente, Jerry D. Johnson, Larry David Wilson and Elí García-Padilla. 2015. The herpetofauna of Oaxaca, Mexico: composition, physiographic distribution, and conservation status. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (1): 6–62 - get paper here
  • Smith, Hobart M. & Burger, W. L. 1950. A new snake (Tantilla) from Mexico. Herpetologica 6 (5): 117-119 - 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 1985. Tantilla flavilineata Smith and Burger. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles ( 368: 1 - 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 and Vicente Mata-Silva. 2014. Snakes of the genus Tantilla (Squamata: Colubridae) in Mexico: taxonomy, distribution, and Conservation. Mesoamerican Herpetology 1 (1): 5-95 - 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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