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Tantilla yaquia SMITH, 1942

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) 
Subspecies 
Common NamesYaquia Blackhead Snake 
SynonymTantilla yaquia SMITH 1942: 33
Tantilla bogerti HARTWEG 1944
Tantilla yaquia bogerti — ZWEIFEL & NORRIS 1955
Tantilla planiceps yaquia — TANNER 1966: 135
Tantilla planiceps bogerti — TANNER 1966: 135
Tantilla yaquia — STEBBINS 1985: 220
Tantilla yaquia — LINER 1994
Tantilla yaquia — LINER 2007
Tantilla yaquia — WILSON & MATA-SILVA 2014: 63
Tantilla yaquia — WALLACH et al. 2014: 707 
DistributionUSA (SE Arizona, New Mexico [HR 31: 187]),
Mexico (Sonora, Sinaloa, Nayarit, Chihuahua)

Elevation: 0-1680 m (WILSON & MATA-SILVA 2014)

Type locality: Guasaremos, Rio Mayo, Chihuahua, Mexico.

bogerti: Mexico (Nayarit); Type locality: Acaponeta, Nayarit.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MCZ 43274, female, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, collected in August 1936 by Howard S. Gentry.
Holotype: AMNH 62259 [bogerti] 
Diagnosis 
CommentTantilla bogerti HARTWEG 1944 was placed into the synonymy of. T. yaquia by MCDIARMID (1968). 
EtymologyThe name yaquia “refers to the Yaqui Indians, whose influence was often felt in the area of the type locality” (McDiarmid, 1977). 
References
  • Bezy, Robert L. and Charles J. Cole 2014. Amphibians and Reptiles of the Madrean Archipelago of Arizona and New Mexico. American Museum Novitates (3810): 1-24 - get paper here
  • 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
  • Degenhardt, William G.; C. W. Painter, and A. H. Price 1996. Amphibians and reptiles of New Mexico. Univ. New Mexico Press, 431 pp.
  • Hardy, L.M., & McDiarmid, R.W. 1969. The amphibians and reptiles of Sinaloa, Mexico. Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. 18 (3): 39-252. - get paper here
  • Hartweg, Norman 1944. Remarks on some Mexican snakes of the Genus Tantilla. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (486): 1-9
  • Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp
  • 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
  • McCoy, C. J. 1964. The snake Tantilla yaquia in Arizona: An addition to the fauna of the United States. Copeia 1964 (1): 216-217 - get paper here
  • McDiarmid, Roy W. 1968. Variation, distribution and systematic status of the black-headed snake Tantilla yaquia Smith. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 67 (3): 159-177 - get paper here
  • McDiarmid, Roy W. 1977. Tantilla yaquia. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (198): 1-2 - get paper here
  • Rorabaugh, J.C. 2013. Yaqui Black-headed Snake, Tantilla yaquia. Herpetofauna of the 100 Mile Circle. Sonoran Herpetologist 26 (3):61-63. - get paper here
  • Rorabaugh, J.C., and J.O. Schmidt. 2015. Noteworthy records of the Yaqui Black-headed Snake (Tantilla yaquia) from Arizona and Sonora. Sonoran Herpetologist 28 (2):19-20. - get paper here
  • Smith,H.M. 1942. A resume of Mexican snakes of the genus Tantilla. Zoologica 27: 33-42. - get paper here
  • Stebbins,R.C. 1985. A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, 2nd ed. Houghton Mifflin, Boston
  • Tanner, Wilmer W. 1966. A re-evaluation of the genus Tantilla in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. Herpetologica 22 (2): 134-152 - get paper here
  • Tanner, Wilmer W. 1985. Snakes of Western Chihuahua. Great Basin Naturalist 45 (4): 615-676 - 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.
  • Webb, R.G. 1984. Herpetogeography in the Mazatlán-Durango Region of the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico. Vetrebrate Ecology and Systematics - A ribute to Henry S. Fitch; Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, Lawrence, pp. 217-241
  • Wilson, Larry David and Vicente Mata-Silva 2015. A checklist and key to the snakes of the Tantilla clade (Squamata: Colubridae), with comments ondistribution 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
  • Woolrich-Piña, Guillermo A, Paulino Ponce-Campos, Jesús Loc-Barragán, Juan Pablo Ramírez-Silva, Vicente Mata-Silva, Jerry D. Johnson, Elí García-Padilla and Larry David Wilson. 2016. The herpetofauna of Nayarit, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation status. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3 (2): 376-448 - get paper here
  • Zweifel,R.G. and Norris,K.S. 1955. Contributions to the herpetology of Sonora, Mexico:Descriptions of new subspecies of snakes (Micruroides euryxanthus and Lampropeltis getulus) and miscellaneous collecting notes. American Midland Naturalist 54: 230-249 - get paper here
 
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