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Florida Crowned Snake
Tantilla relicta Telford, 1966

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 Schrey et al. (2015, Journal of Herpetology 49: 415–419), using mtDNA data, found a genetic, north-South split in mid-peninsular populations.
Page 52: "north-South" should be "north-south". — (4/10/2025)

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2023.04.10.13.42.11)
Download GeoJSON polygon range file: - 0.2 MB

Province/State Distribution:
USA: Florida Georgia

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

Selected References:
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
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
1982 Wilson, Larry David. Tantilla. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (307):1-4
1991 Collins, Joseph T. Viewpoint: A new taxonomic arrangement for some North American amphibins and reptiles Herpetological Review 22(2):42-43
2014 Crother, Brian I. The bold taxonomic hypotheses of Collins (1991): 23 years later. Herpetological Review 45(2):268-272
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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