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Tantilla brevicauda

Species of snake

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 21, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Tantilla brevicauda, Mertens's centipede snake, a species of snake of the family Colubridae.

Editorial summary

“Tantilla brevicauda” enters the record as species of snake. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tantilla, brevicauda and Species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current 13-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tantilla, brevicauda and Species.
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Why this record matters

“Tantilla brevicauda” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Tantilla, brevicauda and Species provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 21, 2026.

Critical limits

Scientific names, classifications and consensus can change while older terminology persists in catalogues and historical literature. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Tantilla brevicauda”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Tantilla brevicauda primary sources, Tantilla brevicauda archive and Tantilla research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Tantilla brevicauda”?
  2. Which observation, specimen, dataset or publication supports the account?
  3. Has classification or technical consensus changed since the cited source?
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This entry incorporates text from “Tantilla brevicauda” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.