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    Species Accepted

    Contia tenuis (Baird & Girard, 1852)

    (Common) Sharptail Snake

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      11 results
      (Common) Sharptail Snake English
      Cobra-de-cauda-afiada Portuguese
      Common Sharp-tailed Snake English
      Common Sharptail Snake English
      Culebra de Cola Puntiaguda Spanish
      Dornschwanzschlange German
      Sharp-tailed Snake English
      Sharptail Snake English
      couleuvre à queue fine French
      контия Russian

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      35 results
      Olson, E. O. (2023). SCANNER IMAGING OF COMMON SHARP-TAILED SNAKES (CONTIA TENUIS) FOR INDIVIDUAL IDENTIFICATION. Northwestern Naturalist, 104(1), 26-36.
      Harris, R. W. (1959). An Altitude Record for Contia tenuis. Herpetologica 15 (2): 104.
      Morales, N & Hansen, R W; (2019). Geographic Distribution: Contia tenuis (Common Sharp-tailed Snake) USA: California: Merced Co., Stanislaus Co. Herpetological Review 50 (3): 528.
      OLSON, ERIC O. (2021). CONTIA TENUIS (Common Sharp-tailed Snake). DIURNAL SURFACE ACTIVITY and ANTHROPOGENIC MORTALITY. Herpetological Review 52 (3): 661–662.
      Nussbaum, R.A., Brodie, E.D., Jr., & Storm, R.M. (1983). Amphibians and reptiles of the Pacific Northwest. Univ. Press of Idaho, Moscow 332 Pp.
      OLDHAM, CHRISTIAN R.; RUSSEL BARSH & MADRONA MURPHY. (2021). CONTIA TENUIS (Common Sharp-tailed Snake). REPRODUCTION. Herpetological Review 52 (2): 418–419.
      Hoyer, Richard F. (2001). Discovery of a Probable New Species in the Genus Contia. Northwestern Naturalist 82 (3):116-122.
      Stebbins, R. C. (1985). A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, 2nd ed. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
      Crother, B. I. (ed.). (2012). Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and Crocodilians, Seventh Edition. Herpetological Circular 39: 1-92.
      Leonard, W. P., & Ovaska, K. (1998). Contia, C. tenuis. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 677: 1-7.

      Citation

      Contia tenuis (Baird & Girard, 1852) in undefined