Tantillita lintoni (SMITH, 1940)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies	Tantillita lintoni rozellae PEREZ-HIGAREDA 1985 Tantillita lintoni lintoni (SMITH 1940)
Common Names	E: Brown Dwarf Short-tailed Snake, Linton's Dwarf Short-tail Snake S: Culebrita Enana de Linton
Synonym	Tantilla lintoni SMITH 1940 Tantillita lintoni — SMITH & TAYLOR 1945 Tantilla excubitor — WILSON 1982 Tantillita lintoni — LINER 1994 Tantillita lintoni — KÖHLER et al. 2004 Tantillita lintoni — WALLACH et al. 2014: 708 Tantillita lintoni — SUNYER & MARTÍNEZ-FONSECA 2023 Tantillita lintoni rozellae PEREZ-HIGAREDA 1985 Tantillita lintoni rozellae — LÓPEZ-LUNA et al. 2000: 187
Distribution	Mexico (Chiapas, Veracruz: [HR 31: 187], Campeche, Yucatan, Quintana Roo), Guatemala, Belize [HR 31: 115], Honduras, Nicaragua [HR 30: 55] Type locality: Piedras Negras, Guatemala. rozellae: Mexico (Veracruz); Type locality: Colonla El Bastonal, Sierra de Santa Marta, 900 m above sea level, Municipality of Catemaco, Veracruz, México.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: USNM 108603 Holotype: CAR-EBTT (= IBH-LT = UNAM-LT) 2336 (Estación de Biología Tropical "Los Tuxtlas", Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico), adult male collected 17 August 1984, by Gonzalo Perez-Higareda [rozellae]
Diagnosis	Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (3629 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Type species: Tantilla lintoni SMITH 1940 is the type species of the genus Tantillita SMITH 1940.
Etymology	Named after Professor Linton Satterthwaite Jr. (1897-1978), an archeologist who worked in Mexico (1930s). The genus name Tantillita is a double diminutive, derived from the Latin tantillum, meaning "so small a thing,"and the diminutive - ta, a reference to the small size of this genus.
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 Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Calderon, R.; Cedeño-Vázquez, J.R. & Pozo, C. 2003. New distributional records for amphibians and reptiles from Campeche, Mexico. Herpetological Review 34 (3): 269-272 - get paper here Campbell, J.A. 1998. Amphibians and reptiles of northern Guatemala, the Yucatán, and Belize. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, xiii + 380 pp. - get paper here García-Morales, D., Cervantes-Burgos, R.I. & García-Vázquez, U.O. 2017. Geographic Distribution: Tantilla lintoni (Linton's Dwarf Short-tailed Snake). Herpetological Review 48 (3): 591. - get paper here González-Sánchez, V. H., J. D. Johnson, E. García-Padilla, V. Mata-Silva, D. L. DeSantis and L. D. Wilson. 2017. The Herpetofauna of the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula: composition, distribution, and conservation status. Mesoamerican Herpetology 4(2): 264–380 - get paper here Hedges SB, Powell R, Henderson RW, Hanson S, and Murphy JC 2019. Definition of the Caribbean Islands biogeographic region, with checklist and recommendations for standardized common names of amphibians and reptiles. Caribbean Herpetology 67: 1–53 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 Köhler, G. 2008. Reptiles of Central America. 2nd Ed. Herpeton-Verlag, 400 pp. Köhler, G.; Quintana, A.Z.; Buitrago, F. & Diethert H. 2004. New and noteworthy records of amphibians and reptiles from Nicaragua. Salamandra 40 (1): 15-24 - get paper here Köhler, Gunther 1999. Geographic distribution. Tantilla lintoni. Herpetological Review 30 (1): 55 - get paper here Laking AE, Solís JM, Brown T, Maddock ST, Burdekin O, Taylor P, Lonsdale G, Green SEW, Martin TE, Galdamez JR, Kolby JE, Erens J, Jocque M 2024. The amphibians and reptiles of Cusuco National Park, Northwest Honduras: updates from a long-term conservation programme. In: Lipińska M, Lopez-Selva MM, Sierra JM (Eds) Biodiversity research in Central America. Neotropical Biology and Conservation 19(2): 37-62 - get paper here Lee, J. C. 2000. A field guide to the amphibians and reptiles of the Maya world. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, Lee, J.C. 1996. The amphibians and reptiles of the Yucatán Peninsula. Comstock, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 500 pp. McCranie J R 2011. The snakes of Honduras. SSAR, Salt Lake City, 725 pp. McCranie, James R. 2015. A checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Honduras, with additions, comments on taxonomy, some recent taxonomic decisions, and areas of further studies needed. Zootaxa 3931 (3): 352–386 - get paper here Pérez-Higareda, Gonzalo;Smith, Hobart M. 1991. Ofidiofauna de Veracruz: Análisis Taxonomico y Zoogeográfico. Ophidiofauna of Veracruz: Taxonomical and Zoogeographical Analysis. Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional de México, Publicaciones Especiales 7: 1-122 Pérez-Higareda, G. 1985. A new subspecies of the genus Tantillita from southern Veracruz, Mexico (Serpentes, Colubridae). Bull. Maryland Herp. Soc. 21(1): 38–40, 1 fig - get paper here Platt, Steven G., Thomas R. Rainwater, Jan C. Meerman and Stanlee M. Miller. 2016. Nature Notes. Notes on the diet, foraging behavior, and venom of some snakes in Belize. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3 (1): 162–170 - get paper here Smith, H.M. 1940. Descriptions of new lizards and snakes from México and Guatemala. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 53: 55-64. - get paper here Smith, Hobart M. 1943. Summary of the collections of snakes and crocodilians made in Mexico under the Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship. Proceeding of the U. S. National Museum, 93 (3169): 393-504 - get paper here Solís, J. M., L. D. Wilson, and J. H. Townsend. 2014. An updated list of the amphibians and reptiles of Honduras, with comments on their nomenclature. Mesoamerican Herpetology 1: 123–144 - get paper here Sunyer, Javier 2014. An updated checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Nicaragua. Mesoamerican Herpetology 1 (2): 186–202. - get paper here Sunyer, Javier & José́ Gabriel Martínez-Fonseca 2023. An updated country checklist to the amphibians and reptiles of Nicaragua. REVISTA NICARAGÜENSE DE BIODIVERSIDAD (100): 1-25 - 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 1988. Tantillita Smith. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles ( 455: 1-2 - get paper here Wilson, L. D., & MEYER, J. R. 1985. The Snakes of Honduras. 2d ed. Milwaukee Publ. Mus. Contrib. Biol. & Geol. No. 6, 150 pp. - get paper here
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