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 |
|---|---|---|
| Elamena cristatipes Gravely, 1927 | HymenosomatidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elamena globosa Chuang & Ng, 1991 | HymenosomatidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elamena gracilis Borradaile, 1903 | HymenosomatidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elamena longidactylis Yang & Sun, 1998 | HymenosomatidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elamena magnum Ng & Chuang, 1996 | HymenosomatidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elamena mathoei (Desmarest, 1823) | HymenosomatidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elamena producta Kirk, 1878 | HymenosomatidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elamena rostrata Ng, Chen & Fang, 1999 | HymenosomatidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elamena samalensis Husana, Kase & Mendoza, 2013 | HymenosomatidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elamena sundaica Ng & Chuang, 1996 | HymenosomatidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elamena truncata (Stimpson, 1858) | HymenosomatidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elamenopsis comosa Ng & Chuang, 1996 | HymenosomatidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elamenopsis guinotae Poore, 2010 | HymenosomatidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elamenopsis rotunda Naruse & Ng, 2007 | HymenosomatidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| American Swallow-tailed KiteElanoides forficatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | AccipitridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black-shouldered KiteElanus axillaris (Latham, 1801) | AccipitridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black-shouldered KiteElanus caeruleus (Desfontaines, 1789) | AccipitridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| White-tailed KiteElanus leucurus (Vieillot, 1818) | AccipitridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Letter-winged KiteElanus scriptus Gould, 1842 | AccipitridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elapata remipes Hendel, 1909 | UlidiidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Elaphe anomala (Boulenger, 1916) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chinese Leopard SnakeElaphe bimaculata Schmidt, 1925 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Taiwan Stink SnakeElaphe carinata (Günther, 1864) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Elaphe climacophora (Boie, 1826) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pere David's Rat SnakeElaphe davidi (Sauvage, 1884) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Steppes RatsnakesElaphe dione (Pallas, 1773) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Japanese Four-lined RatsnakeElaphe quadrivirgata (Boie, 1826) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Four-lined snake (or ratsnake)Elaphe quatuorlineata (Lacépède, 1789) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Blotched rat snakeElaphe sauromates (Pallas, 1811) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Amur RatsnakesElaphe schrenckii Strauch, 1873 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Blade-teethed Rat SnakeElaphe xiphodonta Qi, Shi, Ma, Gao, Bu, Grismer, LI & Wang, 2021 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Zoige RatsnakeElaphe zoigeensis Huang, Ding, Burbrink, Yang, Huang, Ling, Chen & Zhang, 2012 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Elapheia aethiopica Bordoni, 2016 | StaphylinidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elapheia gracilenta (Scheerpeltz, 1974) | StaphylinidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elapheia meridionalis Bordoni, 2016 | StaphylinidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elapheia nigeriana Bordoni, 2016 | StaphylinidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elapheia subaequatorialis Bordoni, 2016 | StaphylinidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elaphiceps javanensis Funkhouser, 1937 | MembracidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Elaphidion albosignatum Chevrolat, 1862 | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elaphidion bahamicae Cazier & Lacey, 1952 | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elaphidion cristalense Zayas, 1975 | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elaphidion cryptum Linsley, 1963 | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elaphidion cubae Fisher, 1932 | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elaphidion depressum Zayas, 1975 | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elaphidion fracticorne Wickham, 1911 | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Elaphidion fullonium Newman, 1841 | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elaphidion glabriusculum (Bates, 1885) | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elaphidion irroratum (Linné, 1767) | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elaphidion knulli Linsley, 1957 | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Elaphidion laeve White, 1853 | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
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.