Tantilla marcovani Lema, 2004a

Passos, Paulo, Rodrigues, Rafael, Pinna, Pedro H., Woitovicz-Cardoso, Manoela, Fernandes, Ronaldo & Caramaschi, Ulisses, 2025, Filling gaps between museum and society: An illustrated catalog of the primary type specimens of Squamata housed in the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Zootaxa 5698 (1), pp. 1-91 : 32

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5698.1.1
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scientific name	Tantilla marcovani Lema, 2004a
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Tantilla marcovani Lema, 2004a View in CoL

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Current status. Tantilla melanocephala ( Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL . Synonymy after Mata-Silva & Wilson (2016).

Holotype. Adult male, MNRJ 6525 View Materials , collected by Marcovan Porto on 14 May [April as informed by the author] 1990 at Pico do Jabre Mountain Range ( 7°11'10"S, 37°25'53"W [approximate]; 1090 m asl [approximate]), at 50 Km southwest from the city of Teixeira [as informed by the author], Municipality of Maturéia, State of Paraíba, Brazil. GoogleMaps

Remarks. Holotype ( 239 mm SVL) with prepared hemipenis kept inside a cryotube together with specimen. No tissue samples available.