Tantilla nigriceps KENNICOTT 1860
| Descriptions of new species of North American serpents in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington R Kennicott (1860) Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 12: 328-338 | |
| Fourth contribution to the herpetology of tropical America E D Cope (1866) Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 18: 123-132 | |
| Catalogue of Batrachia and Reptilia brought by William Taylor from San Diego, Tex E D Cope (1888) Proc. US Nat. Mus 11: 395-398 | |
| A critical review of the characters and variations of the snakes of North America E D Cope (1892) Proc. US Natl. Mus. 14: 589-694 | |
| Description of a new species of snake (Tantilla eiseni) from California Leonhard Stejneger (1896) Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 18(1044): 117-118 | |
| A Review of the Genera and Species of American Snakes, North of Mexico Arthur Erwin Brown (1901) Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 53: 10-110 | |
| Texas Reptiles and Their Faunal Relations Arthur Erwin Brown (1903) Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 55: 543-558 | |
| A list of the amphibians and reptiles of Arizona, with notes on the species in the collection of the Academy John Van Denburgh and Joseph R Slevin (1913) Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 3: 391-454 | |
| Notes on the herpetology of New Mexico, with a list of species known from that state John Van Denburgh (1924) Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 13: 189-230 | |
| A revised checklist of the snakes of Kansas E H Taylor (1929) University of Kansas Science Bulletin 19: 53-62 | |
| List of reptiles and batrachians of Morton County, Kansas, reporting species new to the state fauna E H Taylor (1929) University of Kansas Science Bulletin 19: 63-65 | |
| Snakes of the genus Tantilla in the United States Frank N Blanchard (1938) Zoological Series of Field Museum of Natural History 20: 369-376 | |
| Summary of the collections of snakes and crocodilians made in M H M Smith (1943) Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus 93: 393-504 | |
| Amphibians and reptiles of the Big Bend Region of Texas K P Schmidt and T F Smith (1944) Field Museum of Natural History Publication. Zoological Series 29: 75-96 | |
| First supplement to Typical reptiles and amphibians T Barbour and A Loveridge (1946) Bulletin of The Museum of Comparative Zoology 96: 59-214 | |
| The chigger mites of Kansas (Acarina, Trombiculidae) Richard B Loomis (1956) University of Kansas Science Bulletin 37(19): 1195-1443 | |
| Type specimens of reptiles and amphibians in the United States National Museum (1961) Bulletin of the United States National Museum 220: 1-291 | |
| The distribution of Tantilla utahensis Blanchard W W Tanner and B H Banta (1962) The Great Basin Naturalist 22: 116-1118 | |
| The fossil snakes of Florida (1963) Tulane Studies In Zoology 10: 131-216 | |
| Snakes of Western Chihuahua W W Tanner (1985) Great Basin Naturalist 45: 615-676 |