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Tantillita brevissima (TAYLOR, 1937)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Speckled Dwarf Short-tail Snake
S: Culebrita Enana Jaspeada 
SynonymTantilla brevissima TAYLOR 1937
Tantillita brevissima — SMITH & TAYLOR 1945
Tantillita brevissima — VILLA et al. 1988
Tantilla excubitor WILSON 1982 (fide WILSON 1988)
Tantillita brevissima — LINER 1994
Tantillita brevissima — LINER 2007
Tantillita brevissima — WALLACH et al. 2014: 708
Tantillita brevissima — JAVIER-VÁZQUEZ et al. 2025 
DistributionSE Mexico (Oaxaca, Chiapas), Guatemala (Escuintla)

Type locality: Mexico: Near Tonola, Chiapas.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: INHS (= UIMNH) 25075; E. H. Taylor; August 27- 31, 1935.
Holotype: MVZ 88468 (adult? male); [excubitor] 
DiagnosisUnfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us if you need any of this material. 
CommentDistribution: see map in Javier-Vázquez et al. 2025. 
EtymologyThe name brevissima is derived from the Latin brevis, meaning "short," and -issima, the superlative ending, in reference to the short tail and small number of subcaudals. 
References
  • Aguilar-López JL, Luría-Manzano R, Pineda E, Canseco-Márquez L 2021. Selva Zoque, Mexico: an important Mesoamerican tropical region for reptile species diversity and conservation. ZooKeys 1054: 127-153 - get paper here
  • Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp
  • Javier-Vázquez, E., Valdenegro-Brito, A. E., Sánchez-García, J. C., Clause, A. G., Luna-Reyes, R., & García-Vázquez, U. O. 2025. New distributional and biological information for the Speckled Dwarf Short-tailed Snake, Tantillita brevissima (Taylor, 1937), in Mexico and Guatemala. Herpetology Notes 18: 687-695
  • 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
  • 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
  • Nahuat-Cervera, P E & Ortiz-Medina, J A; 2019. Geographic Distribution: Tantillita brevissima (Speckled Dwarf Short-tailed Snake) Mexico: Chiapas: Municipality of Ocozocoautla de Espinosa. Herpetological Review 50 (2): 333 - 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
  • Smith, H.M. 1941. A new genus of Central American snakes related to Tantilla. J. Washington Acad. Sci. 31: 115-117. - get paper here
  • Smith, Hobart M. & Taylor, Edward H. 1945. An annotated checklist and key to the snakes of Mexico. Bull. US Natl. Mus. (187): iv + 1-239 - get paper here
  • Taylor, Edward H. 1937. Notes and comments on certain American and Mexican snakes of the genus Tantilla, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 39 [1936]: 335-348 - 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. 1988. The status of Tantilla excubitor. Journal of Herpetology 22 (4): 469-470 - get paper here
  • Wilson,L.D. 1982. A Review of the Colubrid Snakes of the Genus Tantilla of Central America. Milwaukee Publ. Mus. Contr. Biol. Geol. (52): 1-77 - get paper here
 
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