Tantilla melanocephala

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Black-headed Snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Tantilla
Species: T. melanocephala
Binomial name
Tantilla melanocephala
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Tantilla melanocephala, the Black-headed Snake is a small snake found in South America (south to northern Argentina) and Trinidad and Tobago.

[edit] References

Boos, Hans E.A. (2001). The snakes of Trinidad and Tobago. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX.. ISBN 1-58544-116-3.