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 |
|---|---|---|
| Black-lipped groundsnakeStegonotus melanolabiatus Ruane, Richards, Mcvay, Tjaturadi, Krey & Austin, 2017 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maluku ground snakeStegonotus modestus (Schlegel, 1837) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Müller’s RatsnakeStegonotus muelleri Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Biak Island groundsnakeStegonotus parvus (Meyer, 1874) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pöch's groundsnakeStegonotus poechi Werner, 1924 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Degenhardt's Scorpion-eating SnakeStenorrhina degenhardtii (Berthold, 1846) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Blood SnakeStenorrhina freminvillei (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| (Dekay’s) Brown SnakeStoreria dekayi (Holbrook, 1839) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mexican Yellowbelly Brown Snake [hidalgoensis]Storeria occipitomaculata (Storer, 1839) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mexican White-lipped SnakeSymphimus leucostomus Cope, 1869 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Yucatán White-lipped SnakeSymphimus mayae (Gaige, 1936) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mexican Short-tail SnakeSympholis lippiens Cope, 1862 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bicolored Shadow SnakeSynophis bicolor Peracca, 1896 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bogert's Shadow SnakeSynophis bogerti Torres-Carvajal, Echevarría, Venegas, Chávez & Camper, 2015 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Calamitous Shadow SnakeSynophis calamitus Hillis, 1990 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mountain Shadow SnakeSynophis insulomontanus Torres-Carvajal, Echevarría, Venegas, Chávez & Camper, 2015 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| La Salle's Shadow SnakeSynophis lasallei (Nicéforo-Maria, 1950) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Braided Shadow SnakeSynophis plectovertebralis Sheil & Grant, 2001 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ocellated Pampas SnakeTachymenis ocellata Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Peru Slender SnakeTachymenis peruviana Wiegmann, 1834 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Slender SnakeTachymenis tarmensis Walker, 1945 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| False Tomodon SnakeTachymenis trigonatus (Leybold, 1873) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Goodall’s Slender SnakeTachymenoides goodallae Lehr, Lundberg, Cusi, Sites, Torres & Aguilar-Puntriano, 2025 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Harrison Ford’s Slender SnakeTachymenoides harrisonfordi Lehr, Cusi, Fernandez, Vera & Catenazzi, 2023 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Short-Nosed GroundsnakeTaeniophallus brevirostris (Peters, 1863) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Taeniophallus nebularis Schargel, Rivas & Myers, 2005 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Taeniophallus nicagus (Cope, 1868) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Oaxacan Cat-eyed SnakeTantalophis discolor (Günther, 1860) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Barbour's Centipede SnakeTantilla albiceps Barbour, 1925 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Boulenger's Centipede SnakeTantilla alticola (Boulenger, 1903) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Andes Centipede SnakeTantilla andinista Wilson & Mena, 1980 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tantilla armillata Cope, 1875 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mexican Blackhead SnakeTantilla atriceps (Günther, 1895) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Baird's Black-headed SnakeTantilla bairdi Stuart, 1941 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bocourt's Black-headed SnakeTantilla bocourti (Günther, 1895) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tantilla boipiranga Sawaya & Sazima, 2003 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mertens' Centipede SnakeTantilla brevicauda Mertens, 1952 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pacific Coast Centipede SnakeTantilla calamarina Cope, 1866 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Capistrata Centipede SnakeTantilla capistrata Cope, 1875 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Michoacán Centipede SnakeTantilla cascadae Wilson & Meyer, 1981 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ceboruco Centipede SnakeTantilla ceboruca Canseco-Márquez, Smith, Ponce-Campos, Flores-Villela & Campbell, 2007 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Guerreran Centipede SnakeTantilla coronadoi Hartweg, 1944 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Southeastern Crowned SnakeTantilla coronata Baird & Girard, 1853 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Big Bend Blackhead SnakeTantilla cucullata Minton, 1956 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Peten Centipede SnakeTantilla cuniculator Smith, 1939 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Deppe's Centipede SnakeTantilla deppei (Bocourt, 1883) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tantilla excelsa Mccranie & Smith, 2017 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Yellow-lined Centipede SnakeTantilla flavilineata Smith & Burger, 1950 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tantilla gottei Mccranie & Smith, 2017 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Peten Centipede SnakeTantilla hendersoni Stafford, 2004 | 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.