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Tantilla sertula WILSON & CAMPBELL, 2000

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Garland Centipede Snake
S: Culebra Centipedívora del Balsas 
SynonymTantilla sertula WILSON & CAMPBELL 2000
Tantilla sertula — FLORES-VILLELA & CANSECO-MÁRQUEZ 2004
Tantilla sertula — WILSON & MATA-SILVA 2014: 52
Tantilla sertula — WALLACH et al. 2014: 705 
DistributionMexico (Guerrero, Oaxaca)

Type locality: 0.8 km NNE of the junction of Mexico highway 200 on the road to La Unión (17°59’ N, 101°49’ W), Guerrero, Mexico; approx. elevation slightly above 150 m.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: UTA R-38145, juvenile female 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A member of the Tantilla calamarina group with 7 supralabials; 161 ventrals; 30 subcaudals; two postoculars; 1+1 temporals, contacting one another; a dark middorsal stripe occupying the middle of the middorsal scale row; no dark lateral stripe; a head pattern consisting of a spatulate dark anterior extension of the middorsal dark stripe occupying the dorsum of the head, flanked by pale narrow, longitudinal stripes broadly separated from pale postparietal spots; and uniformly dark brown supralabials. 
CommentDistribution: for a map with localities of the calamarina group see Palacios-Aguilar et al. 2022: 125 (Fig. 3). 
References
  • Canseco-Márquez, L.; Eric N. Smith, P. Ponce-Campos, O. Flores-Villela, Jonathan A. Campbell 2007. A New Species of Tantilla (Squamata: Colubridae) of the Calamarina Group from Volcán Ceboruco, Nayarit, Mexico. Journal of Herpetology 41 (2): 220-224 - get paper here
  • Flores-Villela, O. & Canseco-Márquez, L. 2004. Nuevas especies y cambios taxonómicos para la herpetofauna de México. Acta Zoologica Mexicana (n.s.) 20 (2): 115-144 - get paper here
  • García-Padilla E, DeSantis DL, Rocha A, Mata-Silva V, Johnson JD, Wilson LD. 2020. Conserving the Mesoamerican herpetofauna: the most critical case of the priority level one endemic species. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 14(2) [General Section]: 73–132 (e240) - get paper here
  • Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp
  • Palacios Aguilar R, Santa Cruz Padilla SA, Jiménez Arcos VH 2021. A new locality for the rare Guerreran Centipede Snake, Tantilla coronadoi Hartweg, 1944 (Squamata, Colubridae), with comments on morphological variation. Check List 17(6): 1745-1749 - 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
  • Palacios-Aguilar, Ricardo & OSCAR FLORES-VILLELA 2018. An updated checklist of the herpetofauna from Guerrero, Mexico. Zootaxa 4422 (1): 1-24 - get paper here
  • RAMÍREZ-RAMÍREZ, V. A., MORALES-SÁNCHEZ, A. R. I. A. N. A., RAMÍREZ-RAMÍREZ, J. O. R. G. E., & MARTÍNEZ-CORONEL, M. A. T. I. A. S. 2023. First Geographic Distribution Records for Amphibians and Reptiles from the Jiménez Area, Municipality of San Marcos, Guerrero, México. Herpetological Review 54 (2): 251-254
  • Rocha, Arturo, Vicente Mata-Silva, Elí García-Padilla, Dominic L. DeSantis and Larry David Wilson. 2016. Third known specimen and first locality record in Oaxaca, Mexico, for Tantilla sertula Wilson and Campbell, 2000 (Squamata: Colubridae). Mesoamerican Herpetology 3 (3): 771–774 - 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, 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. & 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
  • 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
  • Wilson,L.D.; VAUGHN,R.K. & DIXON,J.R. 1999. Another new species of Tantilla of the taeniata group from Chiapas, Mexico. Journal of Herpetology 33 (1): 1-5 - get paper here
 
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