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Definition of Tantilla
1. Noun. Black-headed snakes.
Generic synonyms: Reptile Genus
Group relationships: Colubridae, Family Colubridae
Member holonyms: Black-headed Snake
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tantilla
Literary usage of Tantilla
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Reptiles of Western North America: An Account of the Species Known to by John Van Denburgh (1922)
"This tantilla is readily distinguished from the Californian T. eiseni by its fewer
... tantilla -planiceps of Lower California has only 138 to 140 ..."
2. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles by Leonhard Stejneger, Thomas Barbour (1917)
"131 TYPE: coronata tantilla coronata BAIRD and GIRARD tantilla coronata BAIRD and
... tantilla planiceps (BLAINVILLE) Coluber planiceps BLAINVILLE Nouv. ..."
3. The Reptiles of the Pacific Coast and Great Basin: An Account of the Species by John Van Denburgh (1897)
"It has been taken at San Diego, San Diego County, and White River, Tulare County.
It ranges east across Arizona. Habits.—Unknown. Genus 30. tantilla. ..."
4. The Reptiles of the Pacific Coast and Great Basin: An Account of the Species by John Van Denburgh (1897)
"It has been taken at San Diego, San Diego County, and White River, Tulare County.
It ranges east across Arizona. Habits.—Unknown. Genus 30. tantilla. ..."
5. Synopsis of the North American Syrphidae by Samuel Wendell Williston (1886)
"Sci. Mex., p. 585, pi. xxxvi, flg. 4. Costa luca, Salvin. tantilla ... tantilla
PLANICEPS Blainville, Baird and Girard, C'alai., p. 154. ..."
6. Description of a New Species of Sea Snake from the Philippine Islands: With by John Van Denburgh, Joseph Cheesman Thompson (1908)
"This Arizonan tantilla is readily distinguished from the Californian tantilla
eiseni by its ... tantilla planiceps from Lower California has only 138 to 140 ..."
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