Tantilla planiceps

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Colubrinae
Genus: Tantilla
Species: Tantilla planiceps

Name

Tantilla planiceps (Blainville, 1835)

Type locality: California (including Baja California), restricted to southern Baja California del Sur (Cabo San Lucas) by Smith and Taylor (1950); restriction accepted by Cole and Hardy (1981).

Holotype: MNHN, Paris 818.

Synonyms

• Coluber planiceps — Blainville 1835: 294
• Tantilla planiceps — Cope, 1861: 74
• Homalocranion planiceps — Jan, 1866
• Tantilla planiceps —Van Denburgh, 1895: 140
• Tantilla eiseni Stejneger, "1895" (1896): 117
• Tantilla eiseni — Blanchard, 1938
• Tantilla planiceps — Blanchard, 1938
• Tantilla eiseni transmontana Klauber, 1943: 71
• Tantilla planiceps — Smith & Taylor, 1945: 141
• Tantilla planiceps — Stebbins, 1985: 217
• Tantilla planiceps — Liner, 1994
• Tantilla planiceps — Liner, 2007

References

• IUCN: Tantilla planiceps Blainville, 1835 (Least Concern)
• Tantilla planiceps at the New Reptile Database

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Westliche Schwarzkopfschlange
English: Western Blackhead Snake