Tantilla gracilis
Baird and Girard, 1853
tan-TIL-uh — graw-SIL-us
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Graceful Tantilla (Tantilla gracilis: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Hallowell's Tantilla (Tantilla hallowelli: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Slender Tantilla (Tantilla gracilis: Schmidt, Karl Peterson and D. D. Davis. 1941. Field Book of Snakes of the United States and Canada. C.P. Putnam and Sons, New York. 365pp.); Slender Flat-headed Snake (Tantilla gracilis: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Slender Flat-headed Snake (Tantilla gracilis gracilis: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Northern Flat-headed Snake (Tantilla gracilis hallowelli: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
The Reptile Database
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Selected References:
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1853
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Baird, Spencer F. and Charles Girard. Catalogue of North American Reptiles in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Part 1. Serpents. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 2(5):xvi + 172
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1935
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Force, Edith R. A local study of the opisthoglyph snake Tantilla gracilis Baird and Girard. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters 20:645-659
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1936
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Taylor, Edward H. 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 39:335-348
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1938
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Blanchard, Frank N. Snakes of the genus Tantilla in the United States. Zoological Series of the Field Museum of Natural History 20(28):369-376
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1968
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Hardy, Laurence M. and Charles J. Cole. Morphological variation in a population of the snake, Tantilla gracilis Baird and Girard. University of Kansas Publications Museum of Natural History 17(15):613-629
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1971
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Savitzky, Alan H. and Joseph T. Collins. Tantilla gracilis, a snake new to the fauna of Mexico. Journal of Herpetology 5(1-2):86-87
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1982
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Wilson, Larry David. Tantilla. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (307):1-4
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1991
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Collins, Joseph T. Amphibians and reptiles in the upper Mississippi river valley: Systematic and distributional problems. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 66(4):149-152
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2018
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Cox, Christian L., Joel F. Stringer, Matthew a. Moseley, Paul T. Chippindale, and Jeffery W. Streicher. Testing the geographical dimensions of genetic diversity
following range expansion in a North American snake. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 2018(125):586–599
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