World Species : Tantilla melanocephala (Black-headed Snake (equatoriana; black-headed snake)

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Tantilla melanocephala (Black-headed Snake (equatoriana; black-headed snake)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Tantilla melanocephala, commonly known as the black-headed snake, is a species of small colubrid snake endemic to Central America and South America.

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	19 grams

Litter Size ^[1]	2

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Alta Paraná Atlantic forests	Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Apure-Villavicencio dry forests	Colombia, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Araucaria moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Caatinga Enclaves moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Cauca Valley montane forests	Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Central American Atlantic moist forests	Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Central American dry forests	Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Central American pine-oak forests	Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Cerrado	Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Chiquitano dry forests	Bolivia, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Chocó-Darién moist forests	Colombia, Panama	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Cordillera La Costa montane forests	Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Costa Rican seasonal moist forests	Costa Rica	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Eastern Cordillera real montane forests	Ecuador, Colombia, Peru	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Eastern Panamanian montane forests	Colombia, Panama	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Espinal	Argentina	Neotropic	Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Guianan Freshwater swamp forests	Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan Highlands moist forests	Venezuela, Brazil, Guyana, Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan moist forests	Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Humid Chaco	Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Iquitos varzea	Brazil, Peru, Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Isthmian-Atlantic moist forests	Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Isthmian-Pacific moist forests	Costa Rica, Panama	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Magdalena-Urabá moist forests	Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Marajó varzea	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Maranhao Babatu forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Motagua Valley thornscrub	Guatemala	Neotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Napo moist forests	Colombia, Venezuela, Peru	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Negro-Branco moist forests	Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Northwestern Andean montane forests	Colombia, Ecuador	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Panamanian dry forests	Panama	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Paraná flooded savanna	Argentina	Neotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Purus varzea	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Sechura desert	Peru	Neotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Sierra Madre de Chiapas moist forest	Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Sinú Valley dry forests	Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Solimões-Japurá moist forest	Brazil, Colombia, Peru	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
South American Pacific mangroves	Colombia, Panama, Ecuador	Neotropic	Mangroves
Southern Andean Yungas	Bolivia, Argentina	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Southern Cone Mesopotamian savanna	Argentina	Neotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Southern Mesoamerican Pacific mangroves	Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama	Neotropic	Mangroves
Southwest Amazon moist forests	Peru, Brazil, Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Talamancan montane forests	Costa Rica, Panama	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Tocantins/Pindare moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Uatuma-Trombetas moist forests	Brazil, Guyana, Suriname	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Ucayali moist forests	Peru	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Uruguayan savanna	Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Venezuelan Andes montane forests	Colombia, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Western Ecuador moist forests	Colombia, Ecuador	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic
Atlantic Forest	Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay	No
Cerrado	Brazil	No
Mesoamerica	Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama	No
Tropical Andes	Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela	No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena	Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru	Yes

Predators

Anilius scytale (Coral Cylinder Snakes)

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External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ ²Food habits of Anilius scytale (Serpentes: Aniliidae) in the Brazilian Amazonia, Gleomar F. Maschio; Ana Lúcia da C. Prudente; Francílio da S. Rodrigues; Marinus S. Hoogmoed, Zoologia (Curitiba, Impr.) vol.27 no.2 Curitiba Apr. 2010

Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database

Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund

Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License

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