Tantillita

Tantillita is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae. The genus is endemic to Central America.^[1]

Species and subspecies

Three species are recognized as being valid. One species has two subspecies, including the nominotypical subspecies.^[1]

Tantillita brevissima (Taylor, 1937) - speckled dwarf short-tail snake
Tantillita canula (Cope, 1876) - Yucatan dwarf short-tail snake
Tantillita lintoni (H.M. Smith, 1940) - brown dwarf short-tailed snake, Linton's dwarf short-tail snake,
- Tantillita lintoni lintoni (H.M. Smith, 1940)
- Tantillita lintoni rozellae Pérez-Higareda, 1985

Nota bene: A binomial authority or a trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species or the subspecies, respectively, was originally described in a genus other than Tantillita.

The specific name, lintoni, is in honor of American archeologist Linton Satterthwaite.^[2]

The subspecific name, rozellae, is in honor of American herpetologist Rozella Blood Smith, wife of American herpetologist Hobart Muir Smith.^[2]

All species in the genus Tantillita are oviparous.^[1]

1 2 3 Genus Tantillita at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
1 2 Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Tantillita lintoni, p. 159; T. l. rozellae, p. 228).

Heimes, Peter (2016). Snakes of Mexico: Herpetofauna Mexicana Vol. I. Frankfurt, Germany: Chimaira. 572 pp. ISBN 978-3899731002.
Smith HM (1941). "A new genus of Central American snakes related to Tantilla ". Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 31 (3): 115-117. (Tantillita, new genus, p. 117).

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