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 |
|---|---|---|
| Michoacán Earth SnakeGeophis maculiferus Taylor, 1941 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Highland Earth SnakeGeophis mutitorques (Cope, 1885) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Coffee Earth SnakeGeophis nasalis (Cope, 1868) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Geophis nephodrymus Townsend & Wilson, 2006 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black-banded Earth SnakeGeophis nigrocinctus Duellman, 1959 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Geophis occabus Pavón-Vázquez, García-Vázquez, Blancas-Hernández & Nieto-Montes de Oca, 2011 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Guerreran Earth SnakeGeophis omiltemanus Günther, 1893 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pyburn's Earth SnakeGeophis pyburni Campbell & Murphy, 1977 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sierra Madre Earth SnakeGeophis rostralis (Jan, 1865) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ruthven's Earth SnakeGeophis ruthveni Werner, 1925 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Siebold's Earth SnakeGeophis sieboldi (Jan, 1862) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Geophis tectus Savage & Watling, 2008 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Geophis zeledoni Taylor, 1954 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Brazilian Burrowing SnakeGomesophis brasiliensis (Gomes, 1918) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Günther's Reed SnakeGongylosoma frenata (Günther, 1858) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gongylosoma nicobariensis (Stoliczka, 1870) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rhino Rat SnakeGonyosoma boulengeri (Mocquard, 1897) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Khasi Hills Trinket snakeGonyosoma frenatum (Gray, 1853) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hainan rhinoceros snakeGonyosoma hainanense Peng, Zhang, Huang, Burbrink & Wang, 2021 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Celebes Black-tailed RatsnakeGonyosoma jansenii (Bleeker, 1859) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rainbow Tree SnakeGonyosoma margaritatum Peters, 1871 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Red-tailed Green RatsnakeGonyosoma oxycephalum (Boie, 1827) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Green Bush Rat SnakeGonyosoma prasinum (Blyth, 1855) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Caesar's African Water SnakeGrayia caesar (Günther, 1863) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Grayia obscura Chaney, Greenbaum & Pauwels, 2024 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ornate African Water SnakeGrayia ornata (Bocage, 1866) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Smith's African Water SnakeGrayia smithii (Leach, 1818) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tholloni's African Water SnakeGrayia tholloni Mocquard, 1897 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chihuahuan Hook-nosed SnakeGyalopion canum (Cope, 1860) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Thornscrub or Desert Hooknose SnakeGyalopion quadrangulare (Günther, 1893) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hispaniola RacerHaitiophis anomalus (Peters, 1863) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black-lined Green SnakeHapsidophrys lineata Fischer, 1856 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hapsidophrys principis (Boulenger, 1906) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Emerald SnakeHapsidophrys smaragdina (Schlegel, 1837) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Andrea’s KeelbackHebius andreae (Ziegler & LE Khac Quyet, 2006) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hebius arquus (David & Vogel, 2010) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tonkin KeelbackHebius atemporalis (Bourret, 1934) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kutkai KeelbackHebius bitaeniatus (Wall, 1925) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Boulenger’s keelbackHebius boulengeri (Gressitt, 1937) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sulawesi KeelbackHebius celebicus (Peters & Doria, 1878) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Vietnam Water SnakeHebius chapaensis (Bourret, 1934) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Yunnan KeelbackHebius clerki (Wall, 1925) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hebius concelarus (Malnate, 1963) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kuatun KeelbackHebius craspedogaster (Boulenger, 1899) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Deschauensee’s KeelbackHebius deschauenseei (Taylor, 1934) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sabah KeelbackHebius flavifrons (Boulenger, 1887) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hebius frenatus (Dunn, 1923) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Groundwater's KeelbackHebius groundwateri (Smith, 1922) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Malayan Mountain KeelbackHebius inas (Laidlaw, 1901) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Yaeyama keelbackHebius ishigakiensis (Malnate & Munsterman, 1960) | 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.