Tantilla coronadoi
| Tantilla coronadoi | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Genus: | Tantilla |
| Species: | T. coronadoi
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| Binomial name | |
| Tantilla coronadoi Hartweg, 1944
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Tantilla coronadoi, also known commonly as the Guerreran centipede snake and la culebra centipedívora de Guerrero in Mexican Spanish, is a species of snake in the subfamily Colubrinae of the family Colubridae.[2]
Etymology
The specific name, coronadoi, is in honor of Mexican ichthyologist Salvador Coronado.[3]: 59
Geographic range
Tantilla coronadoi is found in the Mexican state of Guerrero.[2]
Habitat
The preferred natural habitat of Tantilla coronadoi is forest.[1]
Behavior
Tantilla coronadoi is terrestrial and fossorial.[1]
Reproduction
References
- ^ a b c Canseco-Márquez, L.; Campbell, J.A.; Ponce-Campos, P.; Muñoz-Alonso, A.; García Aguayo, A. (2007). "Tantilla coronadoi ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2007: e.T63940A12730085. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T63940A12730085.en. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
- ^ a b c Species Tantilla coronadoi at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org
- ^ Beolens, B.; Watkins, M.; Grayson, M. (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. xiii + 296. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5.
Further reading
- Hartweg, N. (1944). "Remarks on Some Mexican Snakes of the Genus Tantilla". Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (486): 1–9. (Tantilla coronadoi, new species, pp. 4–5).
- Heimes, P. (2016). Snakes of Mexico: Herpetofauna Mexicana Vol. I. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Edition Chimaira. ISBN 978-3899731002. 572 pp.
- Palacios Aguilar, R.; Santa Cruz Padilla, S.A.; Jiménez Arcos, V.H. (2021). "A new locality for the rare Guerreran Centipede Snake, Tantilla coronadoi Hartweg, 1944 (Squamata, Colubridae), with comments on morphological variation". Checklist. 17 (6): 1745–1749.
- Wilson, L.D. (1990). "Tantilla coronadoi Hartweg". Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles. 501: 1.