Blackhead Snakes (Tantilla)

Lower Classification

  • Barbour’s centipede snake (Tantilla albiceps)
  • Boulenger’s centipede snake (Tantilla alticola)
  • Andes centipede snake (Tantilla andinista)
  • Tantilla armillata 
  • Mexican blackhead snake (Tantilla atriceps)
  • Baird’s black-headed snake (Tantilla bairdi)
  • Chucantí centipede snake (Tantilla berguidoi)
  • Bocourt’s black-headed snake (Tantilla bocourti)
  • Tantilla boipiranga
  • Mertens’ centipede snake (Tantilla brevicauda)
  • Briggs’ centipede snake (Tantilla briggsi)
  • Pacific Coast centipede snake (Tantilla calamarina)
  • Capistrata centipede snake (Tantilla capistrata)
  • Michoacán centipede snake (Tantilla cascadae)
  • Tantilla ceboruca
  • Guerreran centipede snake (Tantilla coronadoi)
  • southeastern crowned snake (Tantilla coronata)
  • Big Bend blackhead snake (Tantilla cucullata)
  • Peten centipede snake (Tantilla cuniculator)
  • Deppe’s centipede snake (Tantilla deppei)
  • Tantilla excelsa
  • yellow-lined centipede snake (Tantilla flavilineata)
  • Tantilla gottei
  • Flathead snake (Tantilla gracilis)
  • Peten centipede snake (Tantilla hendersoni)
  • southwestern blackhead snake (Tantilla hobartsmithi)
  • Tantilla impensa
  • Tantilla insulamontana
  • Jan’s centipede snake (Tantilla ani)
  • Tantilla johnsoni
  • Mena’s centipede snake (Tantilla lempira)
  • Tantilla lydia
  • Blackhead snake (Tantilla melanocephala)
  • Tantilla miyatai
  • Blackbelly centipede snake (Tantilla moesta)
  • Black centipede snake (Tantilla nigra)
  • Plains blackhead snake (Tantilla nigriceps)
  • Oaxacan centipede snake (Tantilla oaxacae)
  • Tantilla olympia
  • Tantilla oolitica
  • Peters’ blackhead snake (Tantilla petersi)
  • Western blackhead snake (Tantilla planiceps)
  • Tantilla psittaca
  • Florida crowned snake (Tantilla relicta)
  • Reticulate centipede snake (Tantilla reticulata)
  • Tantilla robusta
  • Big Bend blackhead snake (Tantilla rubra)
  • Tantilla ruficeps
  • Red earth centipede snake (Tantilla schistosa)
  • Ringed centipede snake (Tantilla semicincta)
  • Tantilla sertula
  • Potosí centipede snake (Tantilla shawi)
  • Slavens’ centipede snake (Tantilla slavensi)
  • Tantilla stenigrammi
  • striped centipede snake (Tantilla striata)
  • Banded centipede snake (Tantilla supracincta)
  • Central American centipede snake (Tantilla taeniata)
  • Volcán Tacaná centipede snake (Tantilla tayrae)
  • Tantilla tecta
  • Tjiasmanto’s centipede snake (Tantilla tjiasmantoi)
  • Brazilian three-lined centipede snake (Tantilla trilineata)
  • Mexican three-lined centipede snake (Tantilla triseriata)
  • Three-banded centipede snake (Tantilla tritaeniata)
  • Hallowell’s centipede snake (Tantilla vermiformis)
  • Tantilla vulcani
  • Chihuahuan blackhead snake (Tantilla wilcoxi)
  • Yaqui blackhead snake (Tantilla yaquia)