Tantilla shawi

Tantilla shawi, also known commonly as the Potosí centipede snake and la culebra centipedívora de San Luis Potosí in Mexican Spanish, is a species of snake in the subfamily Colubrinae of the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Mexico.^[2]

Etymology

The specific name, shawi, is in honor of American zoologist Charles R. Shaw who collected the holotype.^[3]^: 241

Tantilla shawi is found in eastern Mexico, in the states of San Luis Potosí and Veracruz.^[2]

The preferred natural habitat of Tantilla shawi is forest,^[1] at altitudes around 1,372 m (4,501 ft).^[2]

Tantilla shawi is oviparous.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Lavin, P.; Mendoza-Quijano, F.; Hammerson, G.A. (2007). "Tantilla shawi ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2007: e.T63960A12731832. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T63960A12731832.en. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Species Tantilla shawi 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.

Campbell, J.A.; Camarillo, J.L.; Ustach, P.C. (1995). "Redescription and Rediagnosis of Tantilla shawi (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico". Southwestern Naturalist. 40 (1): 120–123.
Heimes, P. (2016). Snakes of Mexico: Herpetofauna Mexicana Vol. I. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Edition Chimaira. 572 pp.
Taylor, E.H. (1947). "A Preliminary Account of the Herpetology of the State of San Luis Potosí, México". University of Kansas Science Bulletin. 23 (1): 169–215. (Tantilla shawi, new species, pp. 207–209).
Wilson, L.D. (1991). "Tantilla shawi (Taylor) [sic]". Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles. 528: 1.