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 |
|---|---|---|
| Southwestern Blackhead SnakeTantilla hobartsmithi Taylor, 1937 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Greater Centipede SnakeTantilla impensa Campbell, 1998 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Jan's Centipede SnakeTantilla jani (Günther, 1895) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Johnson’s Centipede SnakeTantilla johnsoni Wilson, Vaughn & Dixon, 1999 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mena's Centipede SnakeTantilla lempira Wilson & Mena, 1980 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tantilla melanocephala (Linnaeus, 1758) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tantilla miyatai Wilson & Knight, 1987 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Blackbelly Centipede SnakeTantilla moesta (Günther, 1863) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black Centipede SnakeTantilla nigra (Boulenger, 1914) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Plains Blackhead SnakeTantilla nigriceps Kennicott, 1860 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Oaxacan Centipede SnakeTantilla oaxacae Wilson & Meyer, 1971 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tantilla olympia Townsend, Wilson, Medina-Flores & Herrera-B, 2013 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rim Rock Crowned SnakeTantilla oolitica Telford, 1966 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tantilla palamala Esqueda, Rojas-Runjaic, Correa, Ortiz, Guerrero, Jiménez, Bazó, Moreno-Pérez, Aguilar & Urra, 2025 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Peters' Black-headed SnakeTantilla petersi Wilson, 1979 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Western Blackhead SnakeTantilla planiceps (Blainville, 1835) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tantilla psittaca Mccranie, 2011 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Florida Crowned SnakeTantilla relicta Telford, 1966 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Litter SnakeTantilla reticulata (Cope, 1860) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pueblan Centipede SnakeTantilla robusta Canseco-Márquez, Mendelson & Gutiérrez-Mayén, 2002 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Big Bend Black-headed SnakeTantilla rubra Cope, 1875 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tantilla ruficeps (Cope, 1894) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Red Earth Centipede SnakeTantilla schistosa (Bocourt, 1883) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tantilla selmae Azevedo, Franco, Menezes, Saraiva-Kunz & Grazziotin, 2024 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ringed Centipede SnakeTantilla semicincta (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Garland Centipede SnakeTantilla sertula Wilson & Campbell, 2000 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Potosí Centipede SnakeTantilla shawi Taylor, 1949 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Slavens' Centipede SnakeTantilla slavensi Pérez-Higareda, Smith & Smith, 1985 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tantilla stenigrammi Mccranie & Smith, 2017 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Striped Centipede SnakeTantilla striata Dunn, 1928 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Banded Centipede SnakeTantilla supracincta (Peters, 1863) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Central American Centipede SnakeTantilla taeniata Bocourt, 1883 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Volcan Tacana Centipede SnakeTantilla tayrae Wilson, 1983 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| White-Striped Centipede SnakeTantilla tecta Campbell & Smith, 1997 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tantilla tjiasmantoi Koch & Venegas, 2016 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Three-lined Centipede SnakeTantilla trilineata (Peters, 1880) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Three-lined Centipede SnakeTantilla triseriata Smith & Smith, 1951 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Three-banded Centipede SnakeTantilla tritaeniata Smith & Williams, 1966 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hallowell's Centipede SnakeTantilla vermiformis (Hallowell, 1861) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Vulcan Centipede SnakeTantilla vulcani Campbell, 1998 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chihuahuan Blackhead SnakeTantilla wilcoxi Stejneger, 1902 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Yaquia Blackhead SnakeTantilla yaquia Smith, 1942 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Speckled Dwarf Short-tail SnakeTantillita brevissima (Taylor, 1937) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Yucatecan Dwarf Short-tail SnakeTantillita canula (Cope, 1875) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Brown Dwarf Short-tailed SnakeTantillita lintoni (Smith, 1940) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Beetz’ Tiger SnakeTelescopus beetzi (Barbour, 1922) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Telescopus crocheti Ribeiro-Júnior, Koch, Flecks, Campbell, Calvo, Spawls, Vidal & Meiri, 2025 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Arabian Cat SnakeTelescopus dhara (Forskål, 1775) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| European CatsnakeTelescopus fallax Fleischmann, 1831 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Telescopus forskali Ribeiro-Júnior, Koch, Flecks, Campbell, Calvo, Spawls, Vidal & Meiri, 2025 | 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.