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    Species Accepted

    Contia tenuis (Baird & Girard, 1852)

    (Common) Sharptail Snake
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Contia
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      (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

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      Werning, & Heiko. (2012). Die Reptilien und Amphibien des Südwestens. Draco 13 (50): 18-60.
      Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy. (2014). Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue]. Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 Pp.
      Kristiina Ovaska, Christian Engelstoft, Lennart Sopuck, & David Robichaud. (2021). Spatial distribution and abundance of Common Sharp-tailed Snakes (Contia tenuis) on Observatory Hill, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. J North American Herpetology 2021 (2).
      Cook, S.F., Jr. (1960). On the occurrence and life history of Contia tenuis. Herpetologica 16 (3): 163-173.
      Ernst, C. H., & Ernst, E. M. (2003). Snakes of the United States and Canada. Smithsonian Inst. Press, Washington, 668 Pp.
      Hansen, Robert and Jackson D. Shedd. (2025). California Amphibians and Reptiles. Princeton University Press, 528 Pp., ISBN9780691249087 (Ebook).
      Hoyer,R.F., O’Donnell, R.P. & Mason, R.T. (2006). CURRENT DISTRIBUTION AND STATUS OF SHARP-TAILED SNAKES (CONTIA TENUIS ) IN OREGON. Northwestern Naturalist 87: 195-202.
      Uetz, P. H., Patel, M., Gbadamosi, Z., Nguyen, A., & Shoope, S. (2024). A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732.
      Cunningham, John D. (1963). High elevation records of Contia tenuis. Herpetologica 18 (2): 133-134.
      O’Donnell, Ryan P. and Doug McCutchen. (2008). A Sharp-tailed snake, Contia tenuis, in the San Juan Islands: Western Washington’s first record in 58 years. Northwestern Naturalist 89 (2): 107-109.

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