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 |
|---|---|---|
| West Coast Garter SnakeThamnophis validus (Kennicott, 1860) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Savanna Vine SnakeThelotornis capensis Smith, 1849 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bird SnakeThelotornis kirtlandii (Hallowell, 1844) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eastern Twig Or Vine SnakeThelotornis mossambicanus (Bocage, 1895) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Usambara vine snakeThelotornis usambaricus Broadley, 2001 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Xizang Hot-spring Keel-backThermophis baileyi (Wall, 1907) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Shangri-La hot-spring snakeThermophis shangrila Peng, Lu, Huang, Guo & Zhang, 2014 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sichuan Hot-spring Keel-backThermophis zhaoermii Guo, Liu, Feng & He, 2008 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black Tree SnakeThrasops jacksonii Günther, 1895 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| (Western) Black Tree SnakeThrasops occidentalis Parker, 1940 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Schmidt’s bold-eyed Tree SnakeThrasops schmidti Loveridge, 1936 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Toxicodryas adamantea Greenbaum, Allen, Vaughan, Pauwels, Wallach, Kusamba, Muninga, Aristote, Mali, Badjedjea, Penner, Rödel, Rivera, Sterkhova, Johnson, Tapondjou & Brown, 2021 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Blandings Tree SnakeToxicodryas blandingii (Hallowell, 1844) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Fischer's Cat SnakeToxicodryas pulverulenta (Fischer, 1856) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Toxicodryas vexator Greenbaum, Allen, Vaughan, Pauwels, Wallach, Kusamba, Muninga, Aristote, Mali, Badjedjea, Penner, Rödel, Rivera, Sterkhova, Johnson, Tapondjou & Brown, 2021 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Apte’s slender snakeTrachischium apteii Bhosale, Gowande & Mirza, 2019 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Blackbelly Worm-eating SnakeTrachischium fuscum (Blyth, 1855) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Günther’s Worm-eating SnakeTrachischium guentheri Boulenger, 1890 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Olive Oriental Slender SnakeTrachischium laeve Peracca, 1904 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mountain Worm-eating SnakeTrachischium monticola (Cantor, 1839) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Trachischium nyalamense Guo, Liu, Jin, Shu, WU & Che, 2024 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Blyth's Reticulated SnakeTrachischium reticulata (Blyth, 1855) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sushanta’s Worm-eating SnakeTrachischium sushantai Raha, Das, Bag, Debnath & Pramanick, 2018 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mocquard's Swamp SnakeTretanorhinus mocquardi Bocourt, 1891 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Orange-bellied SwampsnakeTretanorhinus nigroluteus Cope, 1861 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Striped Swamp SnakeTretanorhinus taeniatus Boulenger, 1903 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Caribbean Water SnakeTretanorhinus variabilis Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Angel’s Mountain KeelbackTrimerodytes praemaxillaris (Angel, 1929) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Yunnan Annulate KeelbackTrimerodytes yunnanensis (Rao & Yang, 1998) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Barbour's Tropical Ground SnakeTrimetopon barbouri Dunn, 1930 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cope's Tropical Ground SnakeTrimetopon pliolepis Cope, 1894 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dunn's Tropical Ground SnakeTrimetopon simile Dunn, 1930 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Viquez's Tropical Ground SnakeTrimetopon viquezi Dunn, 1937 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Costal Lyre SnakeTrimorphodon biscutatus (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sonoran Lyre SnakeTrimorphodon lambda Cope, 1886 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Baja California Lyre SnakeTrimorphodon lyrophanes (Cope, 1860) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sinaloan lyresnakeTrimorphodon paucimaculatus Taylor, 1936 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Trimorphodon quadruplex Smith, 1941 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mexican Lyre SnakeTrimorphodon tau Cope, 1870 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Texas Lyre SnakeTrimorphodon vilkinsonii Cope, 1886 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lined SnakeTropidoclonion lineatum (Hallowell, 1856) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Banded Snail SuckerTropidodipsas fasciata Günther, 1858 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Fischer’s Snail-Eating SnakeTropidodipsas fischeri (Boulenger, 1894) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Poppyfield SnailsuckerTropidodipsas papavericola Grünwald, Toribio-Jiménez, Montaño-Ruvalcaba, Franz-Chávez, Peñaloza-Montaño, Barrera-Nava, Jones, Rodriguez, Hughes, Strickland & Reyes-Velasco, 2021 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Philippi’s Snail-Eating SnakeTropidodipsas philippii (Jan, 1863) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tropidodipsas repleta Smith, Lemos-Espinal, Hartman & Chiszar, 2005 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Zweifel’s Snail-Eating SnakeTropidodipsas zweifeli (Liner & Wilson, 1970) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Serra SnakeTropidodryas serra (Schlegel, 1837) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| JiboinhaTropidodryas striaticeps (Cope, 1870) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Moluccan keelbackTropidonophis elongatus (Jan, 1865) | 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.