Tantillita References

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]

^ ^a ^b ^c Genus Tantillita at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
^ ^a ^b 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).