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
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Green Highland RacerDrymobius chloroticus (Cope, 1886) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Esmarald RacerDrymobius rhombifer (Günther, 1860) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Apurímac Woodland RacerDrymoluber apurimacensis Lehr, Carrillo & Hocking, 2004 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Northern Woodland RacerDrymoluber dichrous (Peters, 1863) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Philippine Whip SnakeDryophiops philippina Boulenger, 1896 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| (Brown or) Red Whip SnakeDryophiops rubescens (Gray, 1834) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dryophylax almae (Franco & Ferreira, 2003) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dryophylax ceibae (Bailey & Thomas, 2007) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dryophylax chaquensis (Bergna & Álvarez, 1993) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Roze's Coastal House SnakeDryophylax chimanta (Roze, 1958) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dryophylax duida (Myers & Donnelly, 1996) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dryophylax marahuaquensis (Gorzula & Ayarzagüena, 1996) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Amazon Coastal House Snake (pallidus)Dryophylax nattereri (Mikan, 1820) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dryophylax paraguanae (Bailey & Thomas, 2007) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dryophylax phoenix (Franco, Trevine, Montingelli & Zaher, 2017) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Guianan Coastal House SnakeDryophylax ramonriveroi (Manzanilla & Sánchez, 2005) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Echinanthera cephalomaculata Di Bernardo, 1994 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Echinanthera cephalostriata Di Bernardo, 1996 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Echinanthera cyanopleura (Cope, 1885) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Echinanthera melanostigma (Wagler, 1824) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| African Dwarf SnakeEirenis africanus (Boulenger, 1914) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eirenis aurolineatus (Venzmer, 1919) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Baran Dwarf RacerEirenis barani Schmidtler, 1988 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Collared Dwarf RacerEirenis collaris (Ménétries, 1832) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Crowned Dwarf RacerEirenis coronella (Schlegel, 1837) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eirenis coronelloides (Jan, 1862) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| English common name not availableEirenis decemlineatus (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eiselt's Dwarf RacerEirenis eiselti Schmidtler & Schmidtler, 1978 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eirenis hakkariensis Schmidtler & Eiselt, 1991 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eirenis kermanensis Rajabizadeh, Schmidtler, Orlov & Soleimani, 2012 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eirenis levantinus Schmidtler, 1993 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eirenis lineomaculatus Schmidt, 1939 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eirenis medus (Chernov, 1940) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Asia Minor Dwarf RacerEirenis modestus (Martin, 1838) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eirenis nigrofasciatus (Nikolsky, 1907) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eirenis occidentalis Rajabizadeh, Nagy, Adriaens, Avci, Masroor, Schmidtler, Nazarov, Esmaeili & Christiaens, 2015 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dark-headed Dwarf RacerEirenis persicus (Anderson, 1872) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dotted Dwarf RacerEirenis punctatolineatus (Boettger, 1892) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eirenis rafsanjanicus Akbarpour, Rastegar-Pouyani, Fathinia & Rastegar-Pouyani, 2020 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rechinger’s dwarf racerEirenis rechingeri Eiselt, 1971 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Roth's Dwarf RacerEirenis rothii Jan, 1863 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eirenis thospitis Schmidtler & Lanza, 1990 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eirenis yassujicus Fathinia, Rastegar-Pouyani & Shafaeipour, 2019 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Elaphe anomala (Boulenger, 1916) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chinese Leopard SnakeElaphe bimaculata Schmidt, 1925 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Taiwan Stink SnakeElaphe carinata (Günther, 1864) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Elaphe climacophora (Boie, 1826) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pere David's Rat SnakeElaphe davidi (Sauvage, 1884) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Steppes RatsnakesElaphe dione (Pallas, 1773) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Japanese Four-lined RatsnakeElaphe quadrivirgata (Boie, 1826) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
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.