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    Species Accepted

    Tantillita brevissima (Taylor, 1937)

    Speckled Dwarf Short-tail Snake

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Culebra-cola corta jaspeada Spanish
      Culebrita Enana Jaspeada Spanish
      Speckled Dwarf Short-tail Snake English
      culebra cola corta jaspeada Spanish

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      14 results
      Javier-Vázquez, E., Valdenegro-Brito, A. E., Sánchez-García, J. C., Clause, A. G., Luna-Reyes, R., & García-Vázquez, U. O. (2025). New distributional and biological information for the Speckled Dwarf Short-tailed Snake, Tantillita brevissima (Taylor, 1937), in Mexico and Guatemala. Herpetology Notes 18: 687-695.
      Wilson, L. D. (1988). The status of Tantilla excubitor. Journal of Herpetology 22 (4): 469-470.
      Taylor, Edward H. (1937). Notes and comments on certain American and Mexican snakes of the genus Tantilla, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 39 [1936]: 335-348.
      Nahuat-Cervera, P E & Ortiz-Medina, J A; (2019). Geographic Distribution: Tantillita brevissima (Speckled Dwarf Short-tailed Snake) Mexico: Chiapas: Municipality of Ocozocoautla de Espinosa. Herpetological Review 50 (2): 333.
      Rodríguez-Robles, Javier A., Good, David A., Wake, David B. (2003). Brief History of Herpetology in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, with a List of Type Specimens of Recent Amphibians and Reptiles. UC Publications in Zoology, 119 Pp.
      Liner, Ernest A. (2007). A CHECKLIST OF THE AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES OF MEXICO. Louisiana State University Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural Science 80: 1-60.
      Johnson, Jerry D.; Vicente Mata-Silva, Elí García Padilla, and Larry David Wilson. (2015). The Herpetofauna of Chiapas, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (3): 272–329.
      Mata-Silva, Vicente, Jerry D. Johnson, Larry David Wilson and Elí García-Padilla. (2015). The herpetofauna of Oaxaca, Mexico: composition, physiographic distribution, and conservation status. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (1): 6–62.
      Heimes, P. (2016). Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 Pp.
      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.

      Citation

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