Photo of a Texiguat Centipede Snake (Tantilla olympia)
Photo: Josiah Townsend, CC-BY-NC-ND, via iNaturalist

Texiguat Centipede Snake

Tantilla olympia

Venom
Not venomous
Constrictor
Not documented
Type
Colubrid
Family
Colubridae
Genus
Tantilla
Continents
North America
Countries
1
How common
Rare

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About

Texiguat Centipede Snake (Tantilla olympia) is a non-venomous colubrid of the family Colubridae, found in Honduras. It lives in habitats such as tropical rainforest, tropical moist forest, tropical lowland forest, evergreen forest and 5 more. Rare: recorded in only 1 place on iNaturalist.

Where it lives

Native range

Habitats

Estimated from where this snake is recorded and what kind of snake it is - not a confirmed habitat survey.

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