<documentid="C77EAE414E5D6E3B582A560AAA8817AA"ID-CLB-Dataset="298041"ID-DOI="10.5281/zenodo.11447502"ID-GBIF-Dataset="16ffd300-f623-4416-ac28-b9ba8690d252"ID-ISSN="1525-9153"ID-Zenodo-Dep="11447502"ID-ZooBank="614BD845-B778-42C8-A291-3E87B19B1224"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="juliana"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="juliana"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="juliana"IM.metadata_approvedBy="juliana"IM.tables_approvedBy="juliana"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="juliana"IM.treatments_approvedBy="juliana"checkinTime="1716909008837"checkinUser="felipe"docAuthor="Antúnez-Fonseca, Cristopher A., Castro, Jocelyn A., España, Farlem G., Townsend, Josiah H. & Wilson, Larry D."docDate="2020"docId="1508B248CE3EFFE3BEB1C185FAB40D1E"docLanguage="en"docName="AmphibReptileCons.14.1.e258.pdf"docOrigin="Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 258) 14 (3)"docStyle="DocumentStyle:D97478CDCB68366E5D4AECD282BFFB6F.2:AmphibReptileConse.2015-.journal_article.0cover"docStyleId="D97478CDCB68366E5D4AECD282BFFB6F"docStyleName="AmphibReptileConse.2015-.journal_article.0cover"docStyleVersion="2"docTitle="Tantilla taeniata"docType="key"docVersion="3"lastPageNumber="100"masterDocId="E931CA30CE33FFEDBE3CC10BFFC70F79"masterDocTitle="A new species of Tantilla of the taeniata group (Squamata: Colubridae) from Refugio de Vida Silvestre Barras de Cuero y Salado in Caribbean coastal Honduras"masterLastPageNumber="102"masterPageNumber="86"pageNumber="99"updateTime="1717422315344"updateUser="ExternalLinkService"zenodo-license-document="CC-BY-4.0">
<mods:titleid="B3E774959B637A01E8AC664B45F7388B">A new species of Tantilla of the taeniata group (Squamata: Colubridae) from Refugio de Vida Silvestre Barras de Cuero y Salado in Caribbean coastal Honduras</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="35BBA0CE9F0161B9D3CDCD34FC2BCCCC">Centro Zamorano de Biodiversidad, Escuela Agrícola Panamericana Zamorano, Francisco Morazán, HONDURAS & Departamento de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras en el Valle de Sula, San Pedro Sula, Cortés, HONDURAS</mods:affiliation>
<mods:nameIdentifierid="0569738894024423B2AE464E2317B4EF"type="email">cristopher.antunez@unah.edu.hn & caantunez1994@gmail.com</mods:nameIdentifier>
<mods:affiliationid="85F578C29C11C072EADAF01DBE534BFA">Departamento de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras en el Valle de Sula, San Pedro Sula, Cortés, HONDURAS</mods:affiliation>
<mods:nameIdentifierid="0640FB0D42163D23D999538D65D8EC89"type="email">jocelyn.castro@unah.hn & jocelynlainez29@ gmail.com</mods:nameIdentifier>
<mods:affiliationid="0889EC8C0304FE9474E0410E8CC8D90A">Mesoamerican Development Institute, University of Massachusetts, 1 University Avenue, Lowell, Massachusetts 01854, USA and Yoro, HONDURAS</mods:affiliation>
<mods:nameIdentifierid="D46C3956D59432A27A05ABF17B323123"type="email">fespana@mesoamerican.org & efarlem@gmail.com</mods:nameIdentifier>
<mods:affiliationid="615C4706E8B2E13BEE57050117856174">Centro Zamorano de Biodiversidad, Escuela Agrícola Panamericana Zamorano, Francisco Morazán, HONDURAS & Department of Biology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania 15705 USA</mods:affiliation>
<mods:namePartid="4F693B8CC2F2AF5CFBAC40D6A9BF3233">Wilson, Larry D.</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliationid="E9679ED81F0052E33A80CD32387E9C4A">1350 Pelican Court, Homestead, Florida 33035 - 1031 USA & Centro Zamorano de Biodiversidad, Escuela Agrícola Panamericana Zamorano, Francisco Morazán, HONDURAS</mods:affiliation>
<bibRefCitationid="F9307EAFCE3EFFE0BEB1C1C3FEA80FA7"author="Townsend JH & Wilson LD & Medina-Flores M & Herrera-B LA"box="[141,367,200,222]"pageId="13"pageNumber="99"pagination="191 - 200"refId="ref13466"refString="Townsend JH, Wilson LD, Medina-Flores M, Herrera-B LA. 2013. A new species of centipede snake in the Tantilla taeniata group (Squamata: Colubridae) from premontane rainforest in Refugio De Vida Silvestre Texiguat, Honduras. Journal of Herpetology 47: 191 - 200."type="journal article"year="2013">Townsend et al. (2013)</bibRefCitation>
published the most recent key to the members of the
group. Since that paper appeared, several new species have been described and placed in this group (
<bibRefCitationid="F9307EAFCE3EFFE0BD2CC1EEFC050F82"author="Batista A & Mebert K & Lotzkat S & Wilson LD"box="[784,962,229,251]"pageId="13"pageNumber="99"pagination="949 - 960"refId="ref12453"refString="Batista A, Mebert K, Lotzkat S, Wilson LD. 2016. A new species of centipede snake of the genus Tantilla (Squamata: Colubridae) from an isolated premontane forest in eastern Panama. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3: 949 - 960."type="journal article"year="2016">Batista et al. 2016</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitationid="F9307EAFCE3EFFE0BDF0C1EEFB5C0F83"author="McCranie JR & Smith EN"box="[972,1179,229,251]"pageId="13"pageNumber="99"pagination="338 - 348"refId="ref13278"refString="McCranie JR, Smith EN. 2017. A review of the Tantilla taeniata species group (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae: Colubrinae) in Honduras, with the description of three new species. Herpetologica 73: 338 - 348."type="journal article"year="2017">McCranie et al. 2017</bibRefCitation>
; and herein), so this is an opportune time to revise the key for the identification of 25 of the 26 species now recognized (the information available on
remains insufficient to include this poorly known taxon in the key; see
<tableCitationid="D02336E5CE3EFFE0BDA9C014FC210E4D"box="[917,998,287,309]"captionStart="Table 1"captionStartId="4.[141,197,142,163]"captionTargetPageId="4"captionText="Table 1. Selected features of measurements, proportion, and scutellation of the members of the Tantilla taeniata group. Modified from Townsend et al. (2013)."httpUri="http://table.plazi.org/id/C9DE53D6CE37FFE9BEB1C185FE620FB8"pageId="13"pageNumber="99"tableUuid="C9DE53D6CE37FFE9BEB1C185FE620FB8">Tables 1</tableCitation>
and
<tableCitationid="D02336E5CE3EFFE0BA28C014FBE50E4C"box="[1044,1058,287,309]"captionStart="Table 2"captionStartId="5.[81,137,420,443]"captionTargetId="graphics-18@5.[81,1905,448,1716]"captionTargetPageId="5"captionText="Table 2. Selected characteristics of the color pattern in members of the Tantilla taeniata group. Modified from Townsend et al. (2013)."httpUri="http://table.plazi.org/id/C9DE53D6CE36FFE8BE6DC0AFFA990EC2"pageId="13"pageNumber="99"tableUuid="C9DE53D6CE36FFE8BE6DC0AFFA990EC2">2</tableCitation>
<paragraphid="9D1E035ECE3EFFE0BEB1C099FAB40ED3"blockId="13.[141,1395,338,1962]"box="[141,1395,402,426]"pageId="13"pageNumber="99">2. Pale lateral stripe present along length of body…………………………............……………..……………3</paragraph>
<paragraphid="9D1E035ECE3EFFE0BEB1C0B9FAB40EB3"blockId="13.[141,1395,338,1962]"box="[141,1395,434,458]"pageId="13"pageNumber="99">Pale lateral stripe interrupted along middle of body, present only on anterior portion of body, or absent...4</paragraph>
5. Pale nuchal band poorly developed, confined to scale posterior to parietals; subcaudals fewer than 60 (known range, 44–51)…………………………………………………………………………………………
<keyStepid="26551BFBCE3EFFE0BEB1C219FAB50C33"pageId="13"pageNumber="99">7. Pale lateral stripe occupies rows 4 and adjacent halves of rows 3 and 5…….…………..………….8 Pale lateral stripe occupies adjacent halves of rows 3 and 4 or restricted to row 4……………………......…11</keyStep>
Pale middorsal stripe occupies middorsal scale row and adjacent halves of paravertebral rows; subcaudals 56 or fewer (known range, 43–56)……………………….……………………………………….......
<keyStepid="26551BFBCE3EFFE0BEB1C5B9FAB50A33"pageId="13"pageNumber="99">12. Pale middorsal stripe on middorsal scale row and some portion of paravertebral rows at least on posterior portion of body………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...13 Pale middorsal stripe confined to middorsal scale row, or on middorsal scale row and some portion of paravertebral rows on anterior portion of body, continuing on or reducing to middorsal row on posterior portion of body……………………………………………………………..............................................………………..…..19</keyStep>
<keyStepid="26551BFBCE3EFFE0BEB1C459FAB50AB0"pageId="13"pageNumber="99">13. Pale middorsal stripe confined to middorsal scale row anteriorly, expanding to some portion of paravertebral rows posteriorly………………………………………………………………………………………………………..14 Pale middorsal stripe on middorsal scale row and some portion of paravertebral rows along length of body…………………………….....………………………………………………………………………………..15</keyStep>
Paraventral scale row pigmented on anterior half or more of trunk, upper half of scale darkly pigmented thereafter…………………………………………………......…………………………………………….
<keyStepid="26551BFBCE3EFFE0BEB1C73AFAB40913"pageId="13"pageNumber="99">15. Ventral surface some shade of red……………………...……………………………………………………...16 Ventral surface yellow or white…………………….……………………………………..………………………17</keyStep>
<taxonomicNameid="5AA178DDCE3EFFE0BB3EC619FAB50853"baseAuthorityName="McCranie and Smith"baseAuthorityYear="2017"box="[1282,1394,1810,1834]"class="Squamata"family="Colubridae"genus="Tantilla"kingdom="Animalia"pageId="13"pageNumber="99"phylum="Chordata"rank="species"species="excelsa">
19. Pale middorsal stripe on middorsal scale row and adjacent one-third of paravertebral rows on anterior portion of body, reducing to middorsal row on posterior portion of body……………
Pale middorsal stripe confined to middorsal scale row, either as continuous stripe or as fragmented series of spots………………………………………………………..…………...……..……………………………………20
<keyStepid="26551BFBCE3DFFE3BEB1C184FAB40FBE"pageId="14"pageNumber="100">20. Pale middorsal stripe fragmented, consisting of series of isolated spots………...…………………………21 Pale middorsal stripe complete, but confined to middorsal row….…………………....….…………………………24</keyStep>
22. Pale lateral stripe absent or barely evident on adjacent halves of dorsal scale rows 3 and 4 on anterior portion of body…….......……………………………………………………………………………………
