Centipede snake (Tantilla armillata), Nicaragua (August 3, 2013)Smith's black-head snake (Tantilla hobartsmithi), El Paso County, Texas (July, 2021)Neotropical black-headed snake (Tantilla melanocephala), Paraíba, Brazil (October 2, 2018)Plains black headed snake (Tantilla nigriceps)Florida crowned snake (Tantilla relicta), Highlands County, Florida (March 20, 2007)Red black-headed snake (Tantilla rubra), Chiapas, Mexico (October, 2014)
Tantilla is a large genus of harmless New World snakes in the family Colubridae. The genus includes 66 species, which are commonly known as centipede snakes, black-headed snakes, and flathead snakes.[6][7]
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^Cope, Edward D. 1894. Third addition to a knowledge of the Batrachia and Reptilia of Costa Rica. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sconces of Philadelphia. 1894: 194-206.
^Wilson, Larry David. 1982. Tantilla. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. 303:1-4.
^Wilson, Larry David, and Vicente Mata-Silva. 2015. A checklist and key to the snakes of the Tantilla clade (Squamata: Colubridae), with comments on taxonomy, distribution, and conservation. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2: 418–498.
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