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Tantilla (black-headed snakes and centipede snakes)

Wikipedia Abstract

Tantilla is a large genus of harmless New World colubrid snakes which includes 64 species commonly known as centipede snakes, blackhead snakes, and flathead snakes.
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Species

Tantilla albiceps (Barbour's Centipede Snake)
Tantilla alticola (Boulenger's Centipede Snake)
Tantilla andinista (Andes Centipede Snake)
Tantilla armillata
Tantilla atriceps (Mexican Blackhead Snake) (Attributes)
Tantilla bairdi (Baird's Black-headed Snake)
Tantilla berguidoi
Tantilla bocourti (Bocourt's Black-headed Snake)
Tantilla boipiranga (Vulnerable)
Tantilla brevicauda (Mertens' Centipede Snake)
Tantilla briggsi (Briggs' Centipede Snake)
Tantilla calamarina (Pacific Coast Centipede Snake)
Tantilla capistrata (Capistrata Centipede Snake) (Attributes)
Tantilla cascadae (Michoacán Centipede Snake)
Tantilla ceboruca (Bocourt's Black-headed Snake)
Tantilla coronadoi (Guerreran Centipede Snake)
Tantilla coronata (Southeastern Crowned Snake) (Attributes)
Tantilla cucullata (Big Bend Blackhead Snake) (Attributes)
Tantilla cuniculator (Peten Centipede Snake)
Tantilla deppei (Deppe's Centipede Snake)
Tantilla excelsa
Tantilla flavilineata (Yellow-lined Centipede Snake) (Endangered)
Tantilla gottei
Tantilla gracilis (Flathead Snake) (Attributes)
Tantilla hendersoni (Peten Centipede Snake)
Tantilla hobartsmithi (Southwestern Blackhead Snake) (Attributes)
Tantilla impensa
Tantilla insulamontana (Mountain Centipede Snake) (Critically Endangered)
Tantilla jani (Jan's Centipede Snake) (Vulnerable)
Tantilla johnsoni
Tantilla lempira (Mena's Centipede Snake) (Endangered)
Tantilla lydia
Tantilla melanocephala (Black-headed Snake (equatoriana) (Attributes)
Tantilla miyatai
Tantilla moesta (Blackbelly Centipede Snake)
Tantilla nigra (Black Centipede Snake)
Tantilla nigriceps (Plains Blackhead Snake) (Attributes)
Tantilla oaxacae (Oaxacan Centipede Snake)
Tantilla olympia
Tantilla oolitica (Rim Rock Crowned Snake) (Endangered) (Attributes)
Tantilla petersi (Peters' Black-headed Snake) (Critically Endangered)
Tantilla planiceps (Western Blackhead Snake) (Attributes)
Tantilla psittaca (Vulnerable)
Tantilla relicta (Florida Crowned Snake) (Attributes)
Tantilla reticulata (Reticulate Centipede Snake, Litter Snake)
Tantilla robusta
Tantilla rubra (Big Bend Black-headed Snake) (Attributes)
Tantilla ruficeps
Tantilla schistosa (Red Earth Centipede Snake)
Tantilla semicincta (Ringed Centipede Snake)
Tantilla sertula
Tantilla shawi (Potosí Centipede Snake) (Endangered)
Tantilla slavensi (Slavens' Centipede Snake)
Tantilla stenigrammi
Tantilla striata (Striped Centipede Snake)
Tantilla supracincta (Banded Centipede Snake)
Tantilla taeniata (Central American Centipede Snake)
Tantilla tayrae (Volcan Tacana Centipede Snake)
Tantilla tecta (White-Striped Centipede Snake)
Tantilla tjiasmantoi
Tantilla trilineata (Three-lined Centipede Snake)
Tantilla triseriata (Three-lined Centipede Snake)
Tantilla tritaeniata (Three-banded Centipede Snake) (Critically Endangered)
Tantilla vermiformis (Hallowell's Centipede Snake)
Tantilla vulcani
Tantilla wilcoxi (Chihuahuan Blackhead Snake) (Attributes)
Tantilla yaquia (Yaqui black-headed snake) (Attributes)

External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0