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Florida Crowned Snake
Tantilla relicta Telford, 1966

Current SSAR Comments:
Schrey et al. (2015, Journal of Herpetology 49: 415–419), using mtDNA data, found a genetic, north-South split in mid-peninsular populations.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2023.04.10.13.42.11)
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First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.

Taxon Links:

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

Pertinent LIterature:
1966 Telford, Sam R., Jr. Variation among the southeastern crowned snakes, genus Tantilla. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 10(7):261-304
1980 Telford, Sam R., Jr. Tantilla relicta. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (257):1-2
2015 Schrey, Aaron W., R. Kyle Evans, Megan Netherland, Kyle G. Ashton, Henry R. Mushinsky, and Earl D. McCoy. Phylogeography of the Peninsula Crowned Snake (Tantilla relicta relicta) on the Lake Wales Ridge in Central Florida. Journal of Herpetology 49(3):415-419

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