Tantilla johnsoni, also known commonly as Johnson's centipede snake and la culebra centipedívora de Chiapas in Mexican Spanish, is a species of snake in the subfamily Colubrinae of the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Mexico. www.reptile-database.org.
Etymology The specific name, johnsoni, is in honor of American zoologist Jerry Douglas Johnson.Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Tantilla johnsoni, p. 135).
Geographic range Tantilla johnsoni is found in the Mexican state of Chiapas.
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of Tantilla johnsoni is forest.
Behavior Tantilla johnsoni is terrestrial.
Reproduction Tantilla johnsoni is oviparous.
References
Further reading Heimes P (2016). Snakes of Mexico: Herpetofauna Mexicana Vol. I. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Edition Chimaira. 572 pp. . Wilson LD, Mata-Silva V (2014). "Snakes of the genus Tantilla (Squamata: Colubridae) in Mexico: taxonomy, distribution, and conservation". Mesoamerican Herpetology 1 (1): 5–95. (in English, with an abstract in Spanish). Wilson LD, Mata-Silva V (2015). "A checklist and key to the snakes of the Tantilla clade (Squamata: Colubridae), with comments on taxonomy, distribution, and conservation" Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (4): 418–498. Wilson LD, Vaughn RK, Dixon JR (1999). "Another New Species of Tantilla of the taeniata Group from Chiapas, Mexico". Journal of Herpetology 33 (1): 1–5. (Tantilla johnsoni, new species).