Flathead Snake
Tantilla gracilis Baird & Girard, 1853
Also calledCulebra Cabeza-plana (spa) · Culebra-ciempiés cabeza plana (spa) · Culebrita cabeza negra aplanada (spa) · Schlanke Schwarzkopfschlange (deu) · culebra cabeza-lisa (spa) · culebra ciempiés cabeza plana (spa) · Стройный черноголовый уж (rus)
First described in: Baird, S. F. and C. Girard. Catalogue of North American Reptiles in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Part 1.-Serpents.
This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Tantilla gracilis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2456417.