Tantilla rubra

Tantilla rubra
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Tantilla
Species:	T. rubra
Binomial name
Tantilla rubra Cope, 1875
Synonyms [2]
Homalocranium rubrum (Cope, 1875) Homalocranion rubrum (Cope, 1875) Homalocranium boulengeri Günther, 1895 Tantilla morgani Hartweg, 1944

Tantilla rubra, also known commonly as the red black-headed snake, the Big Bend black-headed snake, and la rojilla in Spanish, is a species of snake in the subfamily Colubrinae of the family Colubridae. ^[2] The species is native to southern Mexico and western Guatemala.

Geographic range

Tantilla rubra is found in the Mexican states of Chiapas, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, and Tamaulipas and in western Guatemala. ^{[1] [2]}

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of Tantilla rubra is forest, at altitudes from sea level to 2,618 m (8,589 ft). ^[1]

Behavior

Tantilla rubra is terrestrial. ^[1]

Reproduction

Tantilla rubra is oviparous. ^[2]

References

1. Flores-Villela, O. (2013). "Tantilla rubra". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2013: e.T63958A3131948. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-2.RLTS.T63958A3131948.en . Retrieved 20 July 2023.
2. Species Tantilla rubra at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

• Boulenger, G.A. (1896). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ), Amblycephalidæ, and Viperidæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I–XXV. (Homalocranium rubrum, p. 219).
• Cope, E.D. (1875). "On the Batrachia and Reptilia of Costa Rica: With Notes on the Herpetology and Ichthyology of Nicaragua and Peru". Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Second Series. 8: 93–154. (Tantilla rubra, new species, p. 144).
• Heimes, P. (2016). Snakes of Mexico: Herpetofauna Mexicana Vol I. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Edition Chimaira. ISBN   978-3899731002. 572 pp.
• Wilson, L.D.; Vaughn, R.K.; Dixon, J.R. (2000). "Tantilla rubra Cope, La Rojilla (Red Black-headed snake)". Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles. 720: 1–3.