| Higher Taxa | Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Common Names | E: Potosí Centipede Snake
S: Culebra Centipedívora de San Luis Potosi |
| Synonym | Tantilla shawi TAYLOR 1949: 207
Tantilla shawi — LINER 1994
Tantilla shawi — LINER 2007
Tantilla shawi — WILSON & MATA-SILVA 2014: 53
Tantilla shawi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 705 |
| Distribution | Mexico (San Luis Potosí, NW Veracruz, Sierra Madre oriental)
Type locality: Xilitla (Miramar), San Luis Potosí, Mexico, elevation ca. 1372 m.
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: LSUM 306, Louisiana State University Museum. Collected Aug. 28, 1947, by Charles Shaw. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A tantilla characterized by seven supralabials, six infralabials, the chinshields separated from the mental; ventrals, 169; subcaudals, 48; anal divided. Tip of snout black, bordered by a cream band that is followed by a broad black area reaching to the back part of parietals; cream spot behind eye extending from frontal to labials; an occipital cream band one scale wide, followed by a broad nuchal black band four scales wide. Anterior fourth of body banded with narrow cream and wider black bands [from TAYLOR 1949].
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| References |
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- Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp
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- Lemos-Espinal, Julio A. and James R. Dixon 2013. Amphibians and Reptiles of San Luis Potosí. Eagle Mountain Publishing, xii + 300 pp. - get paper here
- 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
- Taylor,E.H. 1949. A preliminary account of the herpetology of the state of San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 33 (2): 169-215 - get paper here
- Torres-Hernández, LA, Ramírez-Bautista A, Cruz-Elizalde R, Hernández-Salinas U, Berriozabal-Islas C, DeSantis DL, Johnson JD, Rocha A, García-Padilla E, Mata-Silva V, Fucsko LA, and Wilson LD. 2021. The herpetofauna of Veracruz, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation status. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 15(2) [General Section]: 72–155 - 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 1991. Tantilla shawi (Taylor). Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles ( 528: 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
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