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: Leptotyphlopidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Reticulate Blind SnakeEpacrophis reticulatus (Boulenger, 1906) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Guyana Blind SnakeEpictia albifrons (Wagler, 1824) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Epictia alfredschmidti (Lehr, Wallach, Köhler & Aguilar, 2002) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| South American Blind SnakeEpictia amazonica (Orejas-Miranda, 1969) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black Blind SnakeEpictia ater (Taylor, 1940) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Epictia clinorostris Arredondo & Zaher, 2010 | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bahamian ThreadsnakeEpictia columbi (Klauber, 1939) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black Blind SnakeEpictia fallax (Peters, 1858) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black Blind SnakeEpictia goudotii (Duméril & Bibron, 1844) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Guayaquila Blind SnakeEpictia guayaquilensis (Orejas-Miranda & Peters, 1970) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Epictia hobartsmithi Esqueda, Schlüter, Machado, Castelaín & Natera-Mumaw, 2015 | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black Blind SnakeEpictia magnamaculata (Taylor, 1940) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dark Blind SnakeEpictia melanura (Schmidt & Walker, 1943) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rio Grande do Sul Blind SnakeEpictia munoai (Orejas-Miranda, 1961) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Epictia pauldwyeri Wallach, 2016 | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Peru Blind SnakeEpictia peruviana (Orejas-Miranda, 1969) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Epictia rioignis Koch, Martins & Schweiger, 2019 | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Epictia schneideri Wallach, 2016 | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Epictia septemlineata Koch, Venegas & Böhme, 2015 | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| South American Blind SnakeEpictia signata (Jan, 1861) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Klauber's Blind SnakeEpictia subcrotilla (Klauber, 1939) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Northern Blind SnakeEpictia teaguei (Orejas-Miranda, 1964) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tschudi's Blind SnakeEpictia tesselata (Tschudi, 1845) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Three-colored Blind SnakeEpictia tricolor (Orejas-Miranda & Zug, 1974) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eleven-striped Blind SnakeEpictia undecimstriata (Schlegel, 1839) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Epictia unicolor (Werner, 1913) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Epictia vellardi (Laurent, 1984) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Epictia venegasi Koch, Santa Cruz & Cárdenas, 2016 | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Epictia vindumi Wallach, 2016 | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ethiopian worm snakeLeptotyphlops aethiopicus Broadley & Wallach, 2007 | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cape Thread SnakeLeptotyphlops conjunctus (Jan, 1861) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distant's Thread SnakeLeptotyphlops distanti (Boulenger, 1892) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Emin Pasha’s worm snakeLeptotyphlops emini (Boulenger, 1890) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Howell’s worm snakeLeptotyphlops howelli Broadley & Wallach, 2007 | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Incognito Thread SnakeLeptotyphlops incognitus (Broadley & Watson, 1976) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Jacobsen’s Thread SnakeLeptotyphlops jacobseni Broadley & Broadley, 1999 | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Shaba thread snakeLeptotyphlops kafubi (Boulenger, 1919) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mount Kenya worm snakeLeptotyphlops keniensis Broadley & Wallach, 2007 | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Uvira worm snakeLeptotyphlops latirostris (Sternfeld, 1912) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cape Thread SnakeLeptotyphlops lepezi (Boulenger, 1901) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Merker’s Thread SnakeLeptotyphlops merkeri (Werner, 1909) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black Thread SnakeLeptotyphlops nigricans (Schlegel, 1839) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black-tip worm snakeLeptotyphlops nigroterminus Broadley & Wallach, 2007 | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pitman’s Thread SnakeLeptotyphlops pitmani Broadley & Wallach, 2007 | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Leptotyphlops pungwensis Broadley & Wallach, 1997 | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Peter's Thread SnakeLeptotyphlops scutifrons (Peters, 1854) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tello's Thread SnakeLeptotyphlops telloi Broadley & Watson, 1976 | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Martin Garcia ThreadsnakeMitophis asbolepis (Thomas, Mcdiarmid & Thompson, 1985) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| SAMANA THREADSNAKEMitophis calypso (Thomas, Mcdiarmid & Thompson, 1985) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Barahona ThreadsnakeMitophis pyrites (Thomas, 1965) | LeptotyphlopidaeChordata | 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.