Species

Tantilla melanocephala

Tantilla melanocephala · described by (LINNAEUS 1758)

Tantilla melanocephala — Artist's reconstruction.
Photo: Harriet Scott, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The facts

Scientific name: Tantilla melanocephala
First described: (LINNAEUS 1758)
Class: Reptiles (Reptilia)
Order: Scaled Reptiles (Squamata)
Group: Snakes (Serpentes)
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Tantilla

Taxonomic data: Uetz, P. et al. (eds.), The Reptile Database, under CC-BY 4.0.

Where it sits on the tree