Tantilla tayrae WILSON, 1983

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Volcan Tacana Centipede Snake S: Culebra Centipedívora de Tacaná
Synonym	Tantilla tayrae WILSON 1983 Tantilla tayrae — LINER 1994 Tantilla tayrae — LINER 2007 Tantilla tayrae — WILSON & MATA-SILVA 2014: 58 Tantilla tayrae — WALLACH et al. 2014: 706
Distribution	SE Mexico (Chiapas) Elevation: 760-960 m (WILSON & MATA-SILVA 2014) Type locality: Finca San Jeronimo, 7.5 km N (by rd.) Cacoahatan (= Cacahoatán or Cacahuatán), elevation 760 m, Volcan Tacana, Municipio de Union Juarez, Chiapas, Mexico.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MVZ 159203, adult male, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, collected 30 July 1978 by Robert L. Seib.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: A member of the Tantilla taeniata group characterized by a subdued, narrow pale nuchal collar confined to scales posteriorto parietalsand broadly middorsally divided, a dark brown dorsal ground color, no pale middorsal stripe or the barest indication of one on medial portion of middorsal scale row, and no pale lateralstripe or only a bareindication of one on adjacent halves of dorsal scale rows 3 and 4 on anterior portion of body (Wilson 1983). Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 2930 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - 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 Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp Johnson, Jerry D.; Vicente Mata-Silva, Elí García Padilla, and Larry David Wilson 2015. The Herpetofauna of Chiapas, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (3): 272–329. - 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 Rodríguez-Robles, Javier A., Good, David A., Wake, David B. 2003. Brief History of Herpetology in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, with a List of Type Specimens of Recent Amphibians and Reptiles. UC Publications in Zoology, 119 pp. - 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 1983. A new species of Tantilla of the taeniata group from Chiapas, Mexico. Journal of Herpetology 17 (1): 54-59 - get paper here Wilson L D 1990. Tantilla tayrae Wilson. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles ( 479: 1 - get paper here 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 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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