Tantilla bocourti
Tantilla bocourti, also known commonly as Bocourt's black-headed snake and la serpiente de cabeza negra de Bocourt in Mexican Spanish, is a species of snake in the subfamily Colubrinae of the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Mexico.
Etymology
The specific name, bocourti, is in honor of French zoologist Marie Firmin Bocourt.
Description
A small snake, the holotype of Tantilla bocourti has a total length of, which includes a tail long. It has the following coloration in alcohol. Dorsally, it is pale reddish, without spots or markings. The head is black, with a yellowish crossbar on the snout and a yellowish, black-edged occipital crossbar just behind the parietals. Ventrally, the body is whitish, as is the upper lip.
Tantilla bocourti is found in central Mexico, in the Mexican states of Aguascalientes, Colima, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Veracruz, and Zacatecas.
Habitat
The preferred natural habitat of Tantilla bocourti is forest.
Reproduction
Tantilla bocourti is oviparous.