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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sauvage's Snail-eaterDipsas albifrons (Sauvage, 1884) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Jan's Snail-eaterDipsas alternans (Fischer, 1885) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dipsas andiana (Boulenger, 1896) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hidden Snail-eating SnakeDipsas aparatiritos Ray, Sánchez-Martínez, Batista, Mulcahy, Sheehy Iii, Smith, Pyron & Arteaga, 2023 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| American Snail-eaterDipsas articulata (Cope, 1868) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dipsas baliomelas Harvey, 2008 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dipsas bothropoides Mebert, Passos, Fernandes, Entiauspe-Neto, Queiroz-Alvez, Machado & Lopes, 2020 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Short-faced snail eaterDipsas brevifacies (Cope, 1866) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Neotropical Snail-eaterDipsas bucephala (Shaw, 1802) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Catesby's Snail-eaterDipsas catesbyi (Sentzen, 1796) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dipsas chaparensis Reynolds & Foster, 1992 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Neotropical Snail-eaterDipsas cisticeps (Boettger, 1885) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dipsas copei (Günther, 1872) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dipsas elegans (Boulenger, 1896) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dipsas ellipsifera (Boulenger, 1898) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gaige's Thirst Snail-eaterDipsas gaigeae (Oliver, 1937) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Graceful Snail-eaterDipsas gracilis (Boulenger, 1902) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Jan's Snail-eaterDipsas incerta (Jan, 1863) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Neotropical Snail-eaterDipsas indica Laurenti, 1768 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Klebba’s Snail-EaterDipsas klebbai Arteaga, Salazar-Valenzuela, Mebert, Peñafiel, Aguiar, Sánchez-Nivicela, Pyron, Colston, Cisneros-Heredia, Yánez-Muñoz, Venegas, Guayasamin & Torres-Carvajal, 2018 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Werner's Thirst SnakeDipsas maxillaris (Werner, 1910) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Neuwied's Tree SnakeDipsas neuwiedi (Ihering, 1911) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dipsas nicholsi (Dunn, 1933) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| O'Neill's Tree SnakeDipsas oneilli (Rossman & Thomas, 1979) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ecuador Snail-eaterDipsas oreas (Cope, 1868) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dipsas pakaraima Macculloch & Lathrop, 2004 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Palmer’s Snail-EaterDipsas palmeri (Boulenger, 1912) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Northern Snail-eaterDipsas pavonina Schlegel, 1837 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Boettger's Snail-eater (boettgeri)Dipsas peruana (Boettger, 1898) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pratt's Snail-eaterDipsas pratti (Boulenger, 1897) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tropical Snail-eaterDipsas sanctijoannis (Boulenger, 1911) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dipsas sazimai Fernandes, Marques & Argôlo, 2010 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Trinidad Snail-eaterDipsas trinitatis Parker, 1926 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Jan's Tree SnakeDipsas vagus (Jan, 1863) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Variegated Snail-eaterDipsas variegata (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Vermiculate Snail-eaterDipsas vermiculata Peters, 1960 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bocourt's Snail-eaterDipsas viguieri (Bocourt, 1884) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dipsas welborni Arteaga & Batista, 2023 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Williams' Tree SnakeDipsas williamsi (Carillo de Espinoza, 1974) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dispholidus pembae Hughes, 2021 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| BoomslangDispholidus typus (Smith, 1828) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hensel's SnakeDitaxodon taeniatus (Peters, 1868) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Andreas’ RacerDolichophis andreanus (Werner, 1917) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dolichophis caspius (Gmelin, 1789) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Large Whip SnakeDolichophis jugularis (Linnaeus, 1758) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Red-bellied RacerDolichophis schmidti (Nikolsky, 1909) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black-collared SnakeDrepanoides anomalus (Jan, 1863) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Drymarchon caudomaculatus Wüster, Yrausquin & Mijares-Urrutia, 2001 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Indigo SnakeDrymarchon corais (Boie, 1827) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Blacktail CriboDrymarchon melanurus (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) | 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.