Endangered
Rim rock crown snake
Tantilla oolitica
Rim rock crown snake is a snake in the family Colubridae — Tantilla oolitica, recorded as Endangered and tied to United States.
Appearance
The body is tan to beige dorsally, and white ventrally.
The maximum recorded total length (among them tail) is 29 cm (11.5 in). All species of snakes that belong to the genus Tantilla, are relatively small and usually do not exceed 20 cm (8 in).
Range and habitat
T. Oolitica is found in Dade County and Monroe County of Florida and the Florida Keys, among them Eastern Rock Rim of Miami. The rim rock crowned snake tends to inhabit areas with rocky and sandy soils in pine flatwoods, and tropical hardwood hammocks. The snake can less commonly be found inside crevices of limestone, under foliage, and in suburban areas.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Due to Miami's ever growing city, fragmentation is the main threat to the rim rock crowned snake. Also the hardwood hammocks in Dade county and the remainder of Florida have been diminished to about half of what they once were. Populations near the Keys also face major issues concerning habitat flooding from severe storms.
Today the species is under the Florida endangered and threatened species rule.
Rim rock crown snake is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Rim rock crown snake, Wikidata item Q2382456. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
