Tantillita is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae. The genus is endemic to Central America.. www.reptile-database.org.
Species and subspecies Three species are recognized as being valid. One species has two subspecies, including the nominotypical subspecies. Tantillita brevissima - speckled dwarf short-tail snake Tantillita canula - Yucatan dwarf short-tail snake Tantillita lintoni - brown dwarf short-tailed snake, Linton's dwarf short-tail snake, Tantillita lintoni lintoni Tantillita lintoni rozellae
Nota bene: A binomial authority or a trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species or the subspecies, respectively, was originally described in a genus other than Tantillita.
Etymology The specific name, lintoni, is in honor of American archeologist Linton Satterthwaite.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Tantillita lintoni, p. 159; T. l. rozellae, p. 228).
The subspecific name, rozellae, is in honor of American herpetologist Rozella Blood Smith, wife of American herpetologist Hobart Muir Smith.
Reproduction All species in the genus Tantillita are oviparous.
References
Further reading Heimes, Peter (2016). Snakes of Mexico: Herpetofauna Mexicana Vol. I. Frankfurt, Germany: Chimaira. 572 pp. . Smith HM (1941). "A new genus of Central American snakes related to Tantilla ". Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 31 (3): 115-117. (Tantillita, new genus, p. 117).