Hypsiglena jani
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Hypsiglena jani, commonly known as the Texas night snake or the Chihuahuan night snake, is a small species of mildly venomous snake in the subfamily Dipsadinae of the family Colubridae. The species is
Hypsiglena torquata jani
Wilmer W. Tanner
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Wilmer Webster Tanner was an American zoologist, professor and curator. He was associated with Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah for much of his life and published extensively on the snakes and
Hypsiglena jani
…by the Death Valley Expedition in 1891, with Descriptions of New Species". North American Fauna 7: 159–228. (Hypsiglena texana, new species, p. 205). Tanner WW (1944). "A Taxonomic Study of the Genus Hypsiglena ". Great Basin Naturalist 5 (3 & 4): 25–92. (Hypsiglena dunklei, p. 48; H. ochrorhynchus janii, pp…
Curator Tanner examines a donated tiger at the BYU Life Sciences Museum in 1973
Tanner (together with Nathan M. Smith) described the desert collared lizard as a new species in 1972.
A western terrestrial garter snake, of which Tanner identified 2 possible subspecies.