Tantilla

Tantilla
Tantilla gracilis, flathead snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Subfamily:	Colubrinae
Genus:	Tantilla Baird & Girard, 1853
Synonyms
Coluber, Homalocranion, Homalacranium, Leptocalamus, Lioninia, Pogonaspis

Coluber, Homalocranion, Homalacranium, Leptocalamus, Lioninia, Pogonaspis

Tantilla is a large genus of harmless New World colubrid snakes which includes 64 species commonly known as centipede snakes, blackhead snakes, and flathead snakes.

Tantilla are small snakes, rarely exceeding 20 cm (8 inches) in total length. They are generally varying shades of brown, red or black in color. Some species have a brown body with a black head.

Tantilla are nocturnal, secretive snakes. They spend most of their time buried in the moist leaf litter of semi-forested regions or under rocks and debris.

Their diet consists primarily of invertebrates, including scorpions, centipedes, spiders, and various insects.

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Tantilla.

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