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title: "Culebra de Cola Puntiaguda"
description: "Contia tenuis — Reptiles. The sharp-tailed snake or sharptail snake (Contia tenuis) is a small species of nonvenomous snake in the family Colubridae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/es/animal/common-sharp-tailed-snake
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Culebra de Cola Puntiaguda

> Contia tenuis — Reptiles. The sharp-tailed snake or sharptail snake (Contia tenuis) is a small species of nonvenomous snake in the family Colubridae.

- Scientific name: *Contia tenuis*
- Category: `reptiles` (Reptiles)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bosque)
- iNaturalist observations: 4404
- Wikidata: [Q2060563](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2060563)
- iNaturalist taxon: [26916](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/26916)

## Names

- en: Common Sharp-tailed Snake
- de: Dornschwanzschlange
- es: Culebra de Cola Puntiaguda
- fr: Couleuvre à queue fine
- nl: Doornstaartslang

## Countries with the most observations

US (4145), CA (83)

## Summary

The sharp-tailed snake or sharptail snake (Contia tenuis) is a small species of nonvenomous snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to the Western United States and British Columbia.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp-tailed_snake

## Photo

![Culebra de Cola Puntiaguda](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/common-sharp-tailed-snake/medium.jpg)

Photo: Shane Johnson · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/110108649

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/common-sharp-tailed-snake?lang=es` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).