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: Typhlopidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Angola blind snakeAfrotyphlops angolensis (Bocage, 1866) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Angolan giant blind-snakeAfrotyphlops anomalus (Bocage, 1873) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bibron's Blind SnakeAfrotyphlops bibronii (Smith, 1846) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Blanford’s blind-snakeAfrotyphlops blanfordii (Boulenger, 1889) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Somali giant blind-snakeAfrotyphlops brevis (Scortecci, 1929) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Calabresi’s blind-snakeAfrotyphlops calabresii (Gans & Laurent, 1965) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Afrotyphlops chirioi Trape, 2019 | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Blotched blind snakeAfrotyphlops congestus (Duméril & Bibron, 1844) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Zambezi Blind SnakeAfrotyphlops dinga (Peters, 1854) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Elegant Worm SnakeAfrotyphlops elegans (Peters, 1868) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Fornasini's Blind SnakeAfrotyphlops fornasinii (Bianconi, 1849) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Usambara Spotted Worm SnakeAfrotyphlops gierrai (Mocquard, 1897) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kakamega blind-snakeAfrotyphlops kaimosae (Loveridge, 1935) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Guinea Blind SnakeAfrotyphlops liberiensis (Hallowell, 1848) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Common Lined Worm SnakeAfrotyphlops lineolatus (Jan, 1864) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kenyan dwarf blind-snakeAfrotyphlops nanus Broadley & Wallach, 2009 | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bicoloured blind skinkAfrotyphlops nigrocandidus (Broadley & Wallach, 2000) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Slender Blind SnakeAfrotyphlops obtusus (Peters, 1865) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tanga Worm SnakeAfrotyphlops platyrhynchus (Sternfeld, 1910) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Spotted Blind SnakeAfrotyphlops punctatus (Leach, 1819) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rondo Worm SnakeAfrotyphlops rondoensis (Loveridge, 1942) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Afrotyphlops rouxestevae Trape, 2019 | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Afrotyphlops schlegelii (Bianconi, 1849) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Schmidt’s blind-snakeAfrotyphlops schmidti (Laurent, 1956) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Steinhaus' Worm SnakeAfrotyphlops steinhausi (Werner, 1909) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Liwale blind-snakeAfrotyphlops tanganicanus (Laurent, 1964) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Usambara blind-snakeAfrotyphlops usambaricus (Laurent, 1964) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Amerotyphlops arenensis Graboski, Pereira-Filho, Silva, Costa Prudente & Zaher, 2015 | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Costa Rica Worm SnakeAmerotyphlops costaricensis (Jiménez & Savage, 1963) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Estado Falcón Worm SnakeAmerotyphlops lehneri (Roux, 1926) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Basin Worm SnakeAmerotyphlops minuisquamus (Dixon & Hendricks, 1979) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Amerotyphlops montanum Graboski, Arredondo, Grazziotin, Guerra-Fuentes, Silva, Prudente, Pinto, Rodrigues, Bonatto & Zaher, 2022 | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pernambuco Worm SnakeAmerotyphlops paucisquamus (Dixon & Hendricks, 1979) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Reticulate Worm SnakeAmerotyphlops reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Grenada Bank BlindsnakeAmerotyphlops tasymicris (Thomas, 1974) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Amerotyphlops tycherus (Townsend, Wilson, Ketzler & Luque-Montes, 2008) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Yonenga Worm SnakeAmerotyphlops yonenagae (Rodrigues, 1991) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Small-headed Blind SnakeAnilios affinis (Boulenger, 1889) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Anilios ammodytes (Montague, 1914) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Anilios aspina (Couper, Covacevich & Wilson, 1998) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Southern Blind SnakeAnilios australis Gray, 1845 | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Batillus Blind SnakeAnilios batillus (Waite, 1894) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Anilios bicolor (Peters, 1858) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Prong-snouted Blind SnakeAnilios bituberculatus (Peters, 1863) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Faint-striped Blind SnakeAnilios broomi (Boulenger, 1898) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Centralian Blind SnakeAnilios centralis (Storr, 1984) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cape York Striped Blind SnakeAnilios chamodracaena (Ingram & Covacevich, 1993) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Northern Blind SnakeAnilios diversus (Waite, 1894) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Interior Blind SnakeAnilios endoterus (Waite, 1918) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Northern New Guinea blindsnakeAnilios erycinus (Werner, 1901) | TyphlopidaeChordata | 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.