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Short-tailed snake
The short-tailed snake (''Lampropeltis extenuatum'') is a small harmless colubrid snake. Fossorial and seldom seen, it is found only in sandy, upland parts of Florida where it is listed as Threatened and is protected by state law.
==Etymology==
The short-tailed snake's tail comprises less than ten percent of the snake's total length, hence the common name. Named by A. Erwin Brown in 1890,〔Boulenger, G.A. 1894. ''Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ''. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, Printers.) London. xi + 382 pp. + Plates I.- XX. (''Stilosoma extenuatum'', p. 325.)〕 ''Stilosoma extenuatum'' derives its generic name from the Greek ''stylos'' for pillar and ''soma'' for body. This refers to the stiffness of the short-tailed snake's body,〔Schmidt, K.P., and D.D. Davis. 1941. ''Field Book of Snakes of the United States and Canada''. G.P. Putnam's Sons. New York. 365 pp. (''Stilosoma extenuatum'', pp. 191-192, Figure 59. + Plate 21.)〕 which is caused by its wide and inflexible column of unusually short vertebrae. The specific name, ''extenuatum'', is Latin for thin or slender.
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