| Higher Taxa | Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Common Names | E: Michoacán Centipede Snake
S: Culebra Centipedívora de Michoacán |
| Synonym | Tantilla cascadae WILSON & MEYER 1981
Tantilla cascadae — WILSON 1988
Tantilla cascadae — LINER 1994
Tantilla cascadae — LINER 2007
Tantilla cascadae — WILSON & MATA-SILVA 2014: 25
Tantilla cascadae — WALLACH et al. 2014: 700 |
| Distribution | Mexico (Michoacán, Jalisco)
Elevation: 1,430–1,858 m (WILSON & MATA-SILVA 2014)
Type locality: Tzaráracua Falls (= Cascada la Tzaráracua), S of Uruapán (10.5 km south, according to Duellman, 1961), Michoacán, Mexico, collected by D. F. Brand in June, 1939.
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: AMNH 107389, female, collected in June, 1939 by D. F. Brand. |
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| Comment | This species remains known from only 3 specimens (WILSON 1999, WILSON & MATA-SILVA 2014, 2015).
Distribution: for a map with localities of the calamarina group see Palacios-Aguilar et al. 2022: 125 (Fig. 3). |
| Etymology | The name cascadae is derived from the Spanish word cascada, meaning “waterfall,” in reference to Cascada Tzaráracua, the type locality of the species. |
| References |
- Cruz-Sáenz, Daniel; Francisco Javier Muñoz-Nolasco, David Lazcano and Edgar Flores-Covarrubias 2015. Noteworthy records for Tantilla cascadae and T. ceboruca (Squamata: Colubridae) from Jalisco, Mexico. Check List 11 (4): 1708, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/11.4.1708 - get paper here
- Dávalos-Martínez, Aldo; Víctor Fernando Záizar-Gutiérrez, Daniel Cruz-Sáenz, Eduardo Daniel Roldán-Olvera, Larry David Wilson 2021. The Michoacán Centipede Snake, Tantilla cascadae Wilson and Meyer, 1981 (Squamata: Colubridae): New record for Jalisco, with notes on conservation, biogeography, and a key to the species of the genus in western Mexico. Herpetology Notes 14: 263-268 - get paper here
- 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
- 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
- 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. Tantilla cascadae Wilson and Meyer. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles ( 451: 1 - get paper here
- Wilson L D; Meyer J R 1981. Systematics of the Calamarina group of the colubrid snake genus Tantilla. Milwaukee Public Museum Contributions in Biology and Geology (No. 42): 1-25 - 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. & 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
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