THE NATURAL-HISTORY CATALOGUE
A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Colubridae · Clear filter
1,632 records · page 1 of 33
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Dary's Burrowing SnakeAdelphicos daryi Campbell & Ford, 1982 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Adelphicos ibarrorum Campbell & Brodie, 1988 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Oaxacan Burrowing SnakeAdelphicos latifasciatum Lynch & Smith, 1966 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Burrowing SnakeAdelphicos nigrilatum Smith, 1942 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Middle American Burrowing SnakeAdelphicos quadrivirgatum Jan, 1862 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sargi’s earth SnakeAdelphicos sargii (Fischer, 1885) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Adelphostigma occipitalis (Jan, 1863) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Adelphostigma quadriocellata (Santos, Di-Bernardo & de Lema, 2008) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Somali SnakeAeluroglena cucullata Boulenger, 1898 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| African Brown Water SnakeAfronatrix anoscopus (Cope, 1861) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Northern Vine SnakeAhaetulla borealis Mallik, Srikanthan, Pal, D'Souza, Shanker & Ganesh, 2020 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Farnsworth's Vine SnakeAhaetulla farnsworthi Mallik, Srikanthan, Pal, D'Souza, Shanker & Ganesh, 2020 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Speckle-headed WhipsnakeAhaetulla fasciolata (Fischer, 1885) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Burmese Vine SnakeAhaetulla fronticincta (Günther, 1858) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Wall's Vine SnakeAhaetulla isabellina (Wall, 1910) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Laudankia vine snakeAhaetulla laudankia Deepak, Narayanan, Sarkar, Dutta & Mohapatra, 2019 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Malabar Vine SnakeAhaetulla malabarica Mallik, Srikanthan, Pal, D'Souza, Shanker & Ganesh, 2020 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Green vine snakeAhaetulla nasuta (Lacépède, 1789) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Slender-nosed Vine SnakeAhaetulla oxyrhynca (Bell, 1825) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Western Ghats BronzebackAhaetulla perroteti (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Brown-speckled WhipsnakeAhaetulla pulverulenta (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sahyadri Vine SnakeAhaetulla sahyadrensis Mallik, Srikanthan, Pal, D'Souza, Shanker & Ganesh, 2020 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Terre-de-Bas RacerAlsophis danforthi Cochran, 1938 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Anguilla Bank RacerAlsophis rijgersmaei Cope, 1870 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Terre-De-Haut RacerAlsophis sanctonum Barbour, 1915 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dominica RacerAlsophis sibonius Cope, 1879 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rufous-headed snakeAmastridium veliferum Cope, 1861 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Buff Striped KeelbackAmphiesma stolatum (Linnaeus, 1758) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Werner's Ornate SnakeAmphiesmoides ornaticeps (Werner, 1924) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| DiCaprio’s Himalayan snakeAnguiculus dicaprioi Mirza, Bhardwaj, Pal, Lalremsanga, Vogel, Campbell & Patel, 2024 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Anoplohydrus aemulans Werner, 1909 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Apographon orestes (Harvey & Muñoz, 2004) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Apostolepis albicollaris de Lema, 2002 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Paraguayan BlackheadApostolepis ambiniger (Peters, 1869) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sand dunes BlackheadApostolepis arenaria Rodrigues, 1993 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Common red BlackheadApostolepis assimilis (Reinhardt, 1861) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Apostolepis borellii Peracca, 1904 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Caatinga BlackheadApostolepis cearensis Gomes, 1915 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Apostolepis christineae de Lema, 2002 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sand-dunes BlackheadApostolepis gaboi Rodrigues, 1993 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Goias Burrowing SnakeApostolepis goiasensis Prado, 1942 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Apostolepis kikoi Santos, Entiauspe-Neto, Silva-Araújo, Souza & Lema | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hognose lineate BlackheadApostolepis lineata Cope, 1887 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Longhead Burrowing SnakeApostolepis longicaudata Gomes, 1921 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Amazon Burrowing SnakeApostolepis niceforoi Amaral, 1935 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pará BlackheadApostolepis nigrolineata (Peters, 1869) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Peru BlackheadApostolepis nigroterminata Boulenger, 1896 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Phillips’ BlackheadApostolepis phillipsae Harvey, 1999 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rondônia BlackheadApostolepis rondoni Amaral, 1925 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Apostolepis sanctaeritae Werner, 1924 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
1,632 records · page 1 of 33
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.