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Plains Black-headed Snake
Tantilla nigriceps Kennicott, 1860
Also calledCulebra Cabeza Negra de los Llanos (spa) · Culebra-encapuchada de pradera (spa) · Flachland-Schwarzkopfschlange (deu) · Prærie-skolopendersnog (dan) · culebra encapuchada de pradera (spa) · Черноголовый уж Кенникотта (rus)
First described in: Kennicott, R. Descriptions of new species of North American serpents in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington.
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 nigriceps in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2456526.