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Southeastern Crowned Snake
Tantilla coronata Baird and Girard, 1853

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2023.04.10.13.42.12)
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Alabama Florida Georgia Indiana Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee Virginia

First instance(s) of published English names:
Crowned Tantilla (Tantilla coronata: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Crowned Snake (Tantilla coronata: Schmidt, Karl Peterson and D. D. Davis. 1941. Field Book of Snakes of the United States and Canada. C.P. Putnam and Sons, New York. 365pp.); Florida Black-headed Snake (Tantilla coronata wagneri: Schmidt, Karl Peterson and D. D. Davis. 1941. Field Book of Snakes of the United States and Canada. C.P. Putnam and Sons, New York. 365pp.); Crowned Snake (Tantilla coronata coronata: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Florida Crowned Snake (Tantilla coronata wagneri: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
The Reptile Database
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1853 Baird, Spencer F. and Charles Girard. Catalogue of North American Reptiles in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Part 1. Serpents. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 2(5):xvi + 172
1938 Blanchard, Frank N. Snakes of the genus Tantilla in the United States. Zoological Series of the Field Museum of Natural History 20(28):369-376
1952 Hardy, Jerry D., Jr. The crowned snake Tantilla coronata coronata in North Carolina. Copeia 1952(3):188
1952 Hardy, Jerry D., Jr. The crowned snake Tantilla coronata coronata, in South Carolina. Copeia 1952(3):188
1982 Wilson, Larry David. Tantilla. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (307):1-4
1982 Telford, Sam R., Jr. Tantilla coronata. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (308):1-2
1991 Collins, Joseph T. Amphibians and reptiles in the upper Mississippi river valley: Systematic and distributional problems. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 66(4):149-152

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