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Chihuahuan Black-headed Snake
Tantilla wilcoxi Stejneger, 1902

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
Date of publication corrected by Crombie (1994, Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service (101): 1–40).

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Arizona

First instance(s) of published English names:
Arizona Tantilla (Tantilla wilcoxi: Van Denburgh, John. 1922. The Reptiles of Western North America: An Account of the Species Known to Inhabit California and Oregon, Washinton, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, British Columbia, Sonora, and Lower California. Volume I. Lizards. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. 556pp.); Huachuca Black-headed Snake (Tantilla wilcoxi: 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.);

Taxon Links:

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

Selected References:
1903 Stejneger, Leonhard H. The reptiles of the Huachuca Mountains, Arizona. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 25(1282):149-158
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
1982 Wilson, Larry David. Tantilla. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (307):1-4
1983 Liner, Ernest A. Tantilla wilcoxi. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (345):1-2
1994 Crombie, Ronald I. Herpetological publications of the National Museum of Natural History (USNM). 1853-1994. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service (101):40

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