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  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyColubridae
  5. ›genusTantilla
Tantilla capistrata
Arteaga A (2022) Hooded Centipede-Snake (Tantilla capistrata). In: Arteaga A, Bustamante L (CC BY 4.0) · Wikimedia Commons. Found by name on iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons and in the open-access papers that described the species (Plazi); click a picture for its credit and licence.
IUCN LC · Least concern

Capistrata Centipede Snake

Tantilla capistrata Cope, 1875

Also calledCulebrita de collar encabestrada (spa)

First described in: Cope, E. D. Report on the Reptiles brought by Professor James Orton from the middle and upper Amazon and western Peru.

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”.

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2456437.