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.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Discovery Ground Snake.Atractus discovery Arteaga, Quezada, Vieira & Guayasamin, 2022 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus duboisi (Boulenger, 1880) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Venezuela Ground SnakeAtractus duidensis Roze, 1961 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dunn's Ground SnakeAtractus dunni Savage, 1955 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus echidna Passos, Mueses-Cisneros, Lynch & Fernandes, 2009 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus edioi da Silva, Rodrigues Silva, Ribeiro, Souza & DO Amaral Souza, 2005 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Emigdio’s Ground SnakeAtractus emigdioi González-Sponga, 1971 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Red-black Ground SnakeAtractus erythromelas Boulenger, 1903 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Indistinct GroundsnakeAtractus esepe Arteaga, Mebert, Valencia, Cisneros-Heredia, Peñafiel, Reyes-Puig, Vieira-Fernandes & Guayasamin, 2017 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Filippi's Ground SnakeAtractus favae (de Filippi, 1840) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Flaming Ground SnakeAtractus flammigerus (Boie, 1827) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus franciscopaivai Silva Haad, 2004 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hallowell's Ground SnakeAtractus fuliginosus (Hallowell, 1845) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus gigas Myers & Schargel, 2006 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Günther's Ground SnakeAtractus guentheri (Wucherer, 1861) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus imperfectus Myers, 2003 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus insipidus Roze, 1961 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Loveridge's Ground SnakeAtractus loveridgei Amaral, 1930 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Big Ground SnakeAtractus major Boulenger, 1894 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus manizalesensis Prado, 1940 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus matthewi Markezich & Barrio-Amorós, 2004 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus meridensis Esqueda & LA Marca, 2005 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus microrhynchus (Cope, 1868) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Modest Ground SnakeAtractus modestus Boulenger, 1894 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Banded Ground SnakeAtractus multicinctus (Jan, 1865) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus nasutus Passos, Arredondo, Fernandes & Lynch, 2009 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus natans Hoogmoed & Prudente, 2003 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus nawa Melo-Sampaio, Passos, Prudente, Venegas & Torres-Carvajal, 2021 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black-headed Ground SnakeAtractus nigricaudus Schmidt & Walker, 1943 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bignose Ground SnakeAtractus obtusirostris Werner, 1916 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Western Ground SnakeAtractus occidentalis Savage, 1955 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hispanic Ground SnakeAtractus oculotemporalis Amaral, 1932 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus orcesi Savage, 1955 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus pachacamac Melo-Sampaio, Passos, Prudente, Venegas & Torres-Carvajal, 2021 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus paisa Passos, Arredondo, Fernandes & Lynch, 2009 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pamplona Ground SnakeAtractus pamplonensis Amaral, 1935 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus pantostictus Fernandes & Puorto, 1993 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus paraguayensis Werner, 1924 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus potschi Fernandes, 1995 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Reticulate Ground SnakeAtractus reticulatus (Boulenger, 1885) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rivero's Ground SnakeAtractus riveroi Roze, 1961 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus ronnie Passos, Fernandes & Borges-Nojosa, 2007 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pyron’s Groundsnake [pyroni]Atractus roulei Despax, 1910 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| St. Marta's Ground SnakeAtractus sanctaemartae Dunn, 1946 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bloody Ground SnakeAtractus sanguineus Prado, 1944 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Savage’s GroundsnakeAtractus savagei Salazar-Valenzuela, Torres-Carvajal & Passos, 2014 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus snethlageae Cunha & Nascimento, 1983 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus spinalis Passos, Teixeira Jr, Recoder, DE Sena, Dal Vechio, Arruda-Pinto, Mendonça, Cassimiro & Rodrigues, 2013 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus surucucu Prudente, 2008 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Three-lined Ground SnakeAtractus trilineatus Wagler, 1828 | 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.