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: Uropeltidae · Clear filter
48 records · page 1 of 1
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Two-lined Black Earth SnakeMelanophidium bilineatum Beddome, 1870 | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Khaire's Earth SnakeMelanophidium khairei Gower, Giri, Captain & Wilkinson, 2016 | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Beddome's Black Earth SnakeMelanophidium punctatum Beddome, 1871 | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Indian Black Earth SnakeMelanophidium wynaudense (Beddome, 1863) | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Travancore Hills Thorntail SnakePlatyplectrurus madurensis Beddome, 1877 | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lined Thorntail SnakePlatyplectrurus trilineatus (Beddome, 1867) | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kerala Burrowing SnakePlectrurus aureus Beddome, 1880 | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Karnataka Burrowing SnakePseudoplectrurus canaricus (Beddome, 1870) | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Blyth's Earth SnakeRhinophis blythii Kelaart, 1853 | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dinarzarde’s shieldtailRhinophis dinarzardae Gower, Sampaio, Vidanapathirana & Wickramasinghe, 2024 | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Polkadot Earth SnakeRhinophis dorsimaculatus Deraniyagala, 1941 | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Drummond-Hay's Earth SnakeRhinophis drummondhayi Wall, 1921 | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eranga Viraj’s shieldtail snakeRhinophis erangaviraji Wickramasinghe, Vidanapathirana, Wickramasinghe & Ranwella, 2009 | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cardamom Hills Earth SnakeRhinophis fergusonianus Boulenger, 1896 | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gower's earth snakeRhinophis goweri Aengals & Ganesh, 2013 | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Trevelyan's Earth SnakeRhinophis homolepis Hemprich, 1820 | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Striped RhinophisRhinophis lineatus Gower & Maduwage, 2011 | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Wayanad Earth SnakeRhinophis melanoleucus Cyriac, Narayanan, Sampaio, Umesh & Gower, 2020 | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mendis’ rhino- phis or Mendis’ shieldtailRhinophis mendisi Gower, 2020 | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Schneider's Earth SnakeRhinophis oxyrhynchus (Schneider, 1801) | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Peters' Philippine Earth SnakeRhinophis philippinus (Cuvier, 1829) | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rhinophis porrectus Wall, 1921 | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Müller's Earth SnakeRhinophis punctatus Müller, 1832 | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Salty Earth SnakeRhinophis sanguineus Beddome, 1863 | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tamil Nadu Earth SnakeRhinophis travancoricus Boulenger, 1892 | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rhinophis tricoloratus Deraniyagala, 1975 | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Zigzag RhinophisRhinophis zigzag Gower & Maduwage, 2011 | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Teretrurus albiventer Cyriac, Ganesh, Madani, Ghosh, Kulkarni & Shanker, 2024 | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Teretrurus periyarensis Cyriac, Ganesh, Madani, Ghosh, Kulkarni & Shanker, 2024 | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Palni Mountain Burrowing SnakeTeretrurus rhodogaster (Wall, 1921) | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Purple-red Earth SnakeTeretrurus sanguineus (Beddome, 1867) | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Travancore Earth SnakeTeretrurus travancoricus Beddome, 1886 | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tirunelveli Earth SnakeUropeltis arcticeps (Günther, 1875) | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Beddome's Earth SnakeUropeltis beddomii (Günther, 1862) | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bicatenate UropeltisUropeltis bicatenata Günther, 1864 | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Brougham's Earth SnakeUropeltis broughami (Beddome, 1878) | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tailspot shieldtailUropeltis caudomaculata Gower, Das, Deepak, Gerard & Narayanan, 2024 | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Smith's Earth SnakeUropeltis grandis (Beddome, 1867) | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Madura ShieldtailUropeltis guentheri (Beddome, 1878) | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bombay Earth SnakeUropeltis macrolepis (Peters, 1862) | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Spotted Earth SnakeUropeltis maculata (Beddome, 1878) | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Madura Earth SnakeUropeltis madurensis (Beddome, 1878) | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Phipson's ShieldtailUropeltis phipsonii (Mason, 1888) | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Indian Earth SnakeUropeltis pulneyensis (Beddome, 1863) | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rajendran’s Shieldtail snakeUropeltis rajendrani Ganesh & Achyuthan, 2020 | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Shevaroy HilIs Earth SnakeUropeltis shorttii (Beddome, 1863) | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Three-cusped shieldtailUropeltis tricuspida Gower, 2023 | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Woodmason's Earth SnakeUropeltis woodmasoni (Theobald, 1876) | UropeltidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
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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.