Tantilla palamala

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Serpentes Cladus: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Tantilla palamala Esqueda, Rojas-Runjaic, Correa, Ortíz, Guerrero, Jiménez, Bazó, Moreno-Pérez, Aguilar & Urra, 2025

Holotype: MZUC 47710, adult ♂, collected by Luis Felipe Esqueda, Santos Bazó, and Gregory Márquez on June 17, 2021.
Type locality: “road that leads to Cudum, between Niquitao and Las Mesitas, 9°3′53.08″N and 70°26′53.35″W, 2214 m elev., Trujillo state, Venezuela.”

Esqueda, L.F., Rojas-Runjaic, F.J.M., Correa, C., Ortíz, J.C., Guerrero, P., Jiménez-Bolaños, J.D., Bazó, S., Moreno-Pérez, P.A., Aguilar, M. & Urra, F.. 2025. Morphological and molecular analyses of mountain centipede snake (Serpentes: Tantilla) reveal a new species from Venezuelan Andes. Academia Biology, 3(1): 1-25. DOI: 10.20935/AcadBiol7534

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