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Solomon Island Ground boa
Animalia Boidae

Solomon Island Ground boa

Candoia paulsoni (Stull, 1956)

Candoia paulsoni is a viviparous boa species native to Maluku Islands and Melane…

Southern Rubber Boa
Animalia Boidae

Southern Rubber Boa

Charina umbratica Klauber, 1943

Charina umbratica, the southern rubber boa, is a small secretive blunt-tailed sn…

Northern Rubber Boa
Animalia Boidae

Northern Rubber Boa

Charina bottae (Blainville, 1835)

Charina bottae (rubber boa) is the northernmost boa species, native to western N…

Coastal Rosy Boa
Animalia Boidae

Coastal Rosy Boa

Lichanura orcutti Stejneger, 1889

Lichanura orcutti (the rosy boa) is a striped heavy-bodied snake found in rocky …

Desert Rosy Boa
Animalia Boidae

Desert Rosy Boa

Lichanura trivirgata Cope, 1861

Lichanura trivirgata Cope, 1861, the desert rosy boa, is a small boid snake nati…

Rough-scaled Sand Boa
Animalia Boidae

Rough-scaled Sand Boa

Eryx conicus (Schneider, 1801)

Eryx conicus is a small stout snake found across South Asia, with distinct keele…

Whitaker’s sand boa
Animalia Boidae

Whitaker’s sand boa

Eryx whitakeri Das, 1991

Eryx whitakeri Das, 1991 is a viviparous snake found in coastal southwest India …

Desert Sand Boa
Animalia Boidae

Desert Sand Boa

Eryx miliaris (Pallas, 1773)

Eryx miliaris is a small stout sand boa species found across arid regions of Sou…

Red Sand Boa
Animalia Boidae

Red Sand Boa

Eryx johnii (Russell, 1801)

Eryx johnii is a small burrowing snake found across parts of South Asia and west…

Arabian Sand Boa
Animalia Boidae

Arabian Sand Boa

Eryx jayakari Boulenger, 1888

Eryx jayakari, the Arabian sand boa, is a small desert boa native to Arabia and …

Javelin Sand Boa
Animalia Boidae

Javelin Sand Boa

Eryx jaculus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Eryx jaculus, the javelin sand boa, is a heavy-bodied snake found across parts o…

Red Cylinder Snake
Animalia Cylindrophiidae

Red Cylinder Snake

Cylindrophis ruffus (Laurenti, 1768)

Cylindrophis ruffus is a moderately sized snake with a limited gape that eats lo…

Jodi's pipe snake
Animalia Cylindrophiidae

Jodi's pipe snake

Cylindrophis jodiae Amarasinghe, Ineich, Campbell & Hallermann, 2015

Jodi’s pipe snake (Cylindrophis jodiae) is a Cylindrophiidae snake found in Thai…

Mexican Burrowing Python
Animalia Loxocemidae

Mexican Burrowing Python

Loxocemus bicolor Cope, 1861

Loxocemus bicolor is a semi-fossorial stout snake from Mesoamerica that preys on…

Cuban Dwarf Boa
Animalia Tropidophiidae

Cuban Dwarf Boa

Tropidophis melanurus (Schlegel, 1837)

Tropidophis melanurus is a Cuban dwarf boa with unknown confirmed reproductive m…

Northern Eyelash Boa
Animalia Tropidophiidae

Northern Eyelash Boa

Trachyboa boulengeri Peracca, 1910

Trachyboa boulengeri, the northern eyelash boa, is a nonvenomous viviparous boa …

Bombay Earth Snake
Animalia Uropeltidae

Bombay Earth Snake

Uropeltis macrolepis (Peters, 1862)

Uropeltis macrolepis is an ovoviviparous shieldtail snake found in forest habita…

Asian Sunbeam Snake
Animalia Xenopeltidae

Asian Sunbeam Snake

Xenopeltis unicolor Reinwardt, 1827

Xenopeltis unicolor is an iridescent fossorial primitive snake found across much…

Peter's Thread Snake
Animalia Leptotyphlopidae

Peter's Thread Snake

Leptotyphlops scutifrons (Peters, 1854)

Peters's threadsnake (Leptotyphlops scutifrons) is a leptotyphlopid snake widely…

Black Thread Snake
Animalia Leptotyphlopidae

Black Thread Snake

Leptotyphlops nigricans (Schlegel, 1839)

Leptotyphlops nigricans is a small thin snake endemic to South Africa's Western …

Guyana Blind Snake
Animalia Leptotyphlopidae

Guyana Blind Snake

Epictia tenella Klauber, 1939

Epictia tenella, the Guyana blind snake, is a mesophilic burrowing blind snake f…

Latin American Blind Snake
Animalia Leptotyphlopidae

Latin American Blind Snake

Epictia albipuncta (Burmeister, 1861)

Epictia albipuncta is an oviparous South American blind snake species in the fam…

Texas Blind Snake
Animalia Leptotyphlopidae

Texas Blind Snake

Rena dulcis Baird & Girard, 1853

Rena dulcis, the Texas blind snake, is a small worm-like blind snake found in th…

Western Threadsnake
Animalia Leptotyphlopidae

Western Threadsnake

Rena humilis Baird & Girard, 1853

Rena humilis, a worm-like blind snake from the southwestern US and northern Mexi…