The Species Black List

Tantilla andinista

Alausi centipede snake

The Apurímac woodland racer (Drymoluber apurimacensis) is known only from a small area of southern Peru (Apurímac department), where it is seriously threatened by habitat destruction and overcollection for use in “traditional medicine.” The Alausi centipede snake (Tantilla andinista) is known only from a single specimen collected in the 1980s from central Ecuador (Chimborazo province).

Status

Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List

Restriction tier

5, type locality or a single collection

Class

Reptilia

Realm

Neotropical

Locality

not specified in the source

As IUCN records it

Tantilla andinista Wilson & Mena, 1980