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
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Four-lined snake (or ratsnake)Elaphe quatuorlineata (Lacépède, 1789) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Blotched rat snakeElaphe sauromates (Pallas, 1811) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Amur RatsnakesElaphe schrenckii Strauch, 1873 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Blade-teethed Rat SnakeElaphe xiphodonta Qi, Shi, Ma, Gao, Bu, Grismer, LI & Wang, 2021 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Zoige RatsnakeElaphe zoigeensis Huang, Ding, Burbrink, Yang, Huang, Ling, Chen & Zhang, 2012 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Elapoidis fusca (Boie, 1827) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Raddi's Lizard-eating SnakeElapomorphus quinquelineatus (Raddi, 1820) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Wucherer's Lizard-eating SnakeElapomorphus wuchereri Günther, 1861 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pinchinda SnakeEmmochliophis fugleri Fritts & Smith, 1969 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Emmochliophis miops (Boulenger, 1898) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Colombian Longtail SnakeEnuliophis sclateri (Boulenger, 1894) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Guanaja Long-tailed SnakeEnulius bifoveatus Mccranie & Köhler, 1999 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Aesculapian False Coral SnakeErythrolamprus aesculapii (Linnaeus, 1758) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Günther’s Green LiophisErythrolamprus albertguentheri (Grazziotin, Zaher, Murphy, Scrocchi, Benavides, Zhang & Bonatto, 2012) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Erythrolamprus albiventris (Jan, 1863) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Almaden Ground SnakeErythrolamprus almadensis (Wagler, 1824) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Erythrolamprus andinus (Dixon, 1983) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dixon's Ground SnakeErythrolamprus atraventer (Dixon & Thomas, 1985) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| False Coral SnakeErythrolamprus bizona Jan, 1863 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Long Ground Snake [longiventris]Erythrolamprus breviceps (Cope, 1860) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Erythrolamprus carajasensis (Cunha, Nascimento & Ávila-Pires, 1985) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Erythrolamprus ceii (Dixon, 1991) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mangrove GroundsnakeErythrolamprus cobella (Linnaeus, 1758) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lacépède's Ground SnakeErythrolamprus cursor (Lacépède, 1789) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Erythrolamprus dorsocorallinus (Esqueda, Natera, LA Marca & Ilija-Fistar, 2007) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Erythrolamprus epinephelus (Cope, 1862) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Drab Ground SnakeErythrolamprus festae (Peracca, 1897) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Erythrolamprus fraseri (Boulenger, 1894) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Swamp LiophisErythrolamprus frenatus (Werner, 1909) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Günther's False Coral SnakeErythrolamprus guentheri Garman, 1883 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Erythrolamprus ingeri (Roze, 1958) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Jaeger's Ground SnakeErythrolamprus jaegeri (Günther, 1858) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Erythrolamprus janaleeae (Dixon, 2000) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Julia's Ground SnakeErythrolamprus juliae (Cope, 1879) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Erythrolamprus lamonae (Dunn, 1944) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maryellen's Ground SnakeErythrolamprus maryellenae (Dixon, 1985) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dark GroundsnakeErythrolamprus melanotus (Shaw, 1802) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mertens' Tropical Forest SnakeErythrolamprus mertensi (Roze, 1964) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Military Ground SnakeErythrolamprus miliaris (Linnaeus, 1758) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mimic False Coral SnakeErythrolamprus mimus (Cope, 1868) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Erythrolamprus mossoroensis (Hoge & Lima-Verde, 1973) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Red SnakeErythrolamprus ocellatus Peters, 1869 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Saint Lucia GroundsnakeErythrolamprus ornatus (Garman, 1887) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Barbados GroundsnakeErythrolamprus perfuscus (Cope, 1862) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Erythrolamprus poecilogyrus (Wied-Neuwied, 1824) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| False Coral SnakeErythrolamprus pseudocorallus Roze, 1959 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pyburn's Tropical Forest SnakeErythrolamprus pyburni (Markezich & Dixon, 1979) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Royal Ground SnakeErythrolamprus reginae (Linnaeus, 1758) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Arrow Ground SnakeErythrolamprus sagittifer (Jan, 1863) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Erythrolamprus semiaureus (Cope, 1862) | 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.