Tantilla wilcoxi

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author1=Hammerson, G.A. |author1-link=Geoffrey A. Hammerson |author2=Vazquez Díaz, J. |author2-link=species:Joel Vázquez-Díaz |author3=Quintero Díaz, G.E. |author3-link=species:Gustavo Ernesto Quintero-Díaz |year=2007 |title=Tantilla wilcoxi |volume=2007 |page=e.T63965A12724452 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T63965A12724452.en |access-date=23 July 2023}}

| genus = Tantilla

| species = wilcoxi

| authority = Stejneger, 1902

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| synonyms = *Tantilla deviatrix
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Tantilla bocourti deviatrix
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Tantilla wilcoxi rubricata
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Tantilla wilcoxi, also known commonly as the Chihuahuan blackhead snake and la centipedívora de Chihuahua in Mexican Spanish, is a species of snake in the subfamily Colubrinae of the family Colubridae. The species is Native to the southwestern United States and adjacent northern Mexico.{{EMBL species|genus=Tantilla|species=wilcoxi}} www.reptile-database.org.

Etymology

The specific name, wilcoxi, is in honor of United States Army surgeon Timothy Erastus Wilcox (1840–1932), who collected the holotype.{{EponymDictionaryReptiles}}{{rp|285}}

Geographic distribution

In the United States Tantilla wilcoxi is found in southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. In Mexico it is found in southeastern Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Coahuila, central Durango, Jalisco, Nuevo León, northeastern Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, and Zacatecas.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of Tantilla wilcoxi are forest, shrubland, and desert, at altitudes of 914–2,438 meters (3,000–8,000 feet).

Reproduction

Tantilla wilcoxi is oviparous.

Tantilla wilcoxi

Etymology

Geographic distribution

Habitat

Reproduction

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Further reading