Ophidia (Serpentes) (Snakes)
Family: Anomalepididae
| Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
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Anomalepis colombia |
Marx, 1953 | Andean blindsnake | (rediscovered) | Colombia | Rediscovered | Access |
Family: Boidae
| Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
| Boa blanchardensis | Bochaton & Bailon, 2018 | - | 34,000-15,000 BP | Marie-Galante Island, West Indies | Extinct | Access |
| Boa sp. nov. 'Martinique' | - | - | ? | Martinique, Martinique Bank, Lesser Antilles | Extinct if valid | Access |
| Chilabothrus schwartzi | (Buden, 1975) | Crooked-Acklins boa | (rediscovered) | Crooked-Acklins Bank, Bahamas | Rediscovered | Access |
| cf. BOIDAE gen. et sp. indet. 'Antigua' | - | - | Holocene | Antigua, Lesser Antilles | Extinct | Access |
Family: Bolyeriidae
| Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
| Bolyeria multocarinata | Boie, 1827 | Round Island (burrowing) boa | 1975 | Round Island, Mauritius | Extinct | Access |
| Casarea dussumieri | (Schlegel, 1837) | Round Island keel-scaled boa, Keel-scaled boa, Round Island ground boa, Round Island boa | (rediscovered) | Round Island, Mauritius | Rediscovered | Access |
Family: Colubridae
| Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
| Alsophis (antiguae) antiguae | Parker, 1933 | Antiguan racer | ? | Antigua and Barbuda, the Caribbean | Extinct | Access |
| Alsophis sp. nov. 'Guadeloupe Islands' | - | - | Holocene | Guadeloupe Islands | Extinct | Access |
| Atractus alytogrammus | Köhler & Kieckbusch, 2014 | (rediscovered) | Colombia | Rediscovered | Access | |
| Atractus bocki | Werner, 1909 | (rediscovered) | Argentina & Bolivia | Rediscovered | Access | |
| Atractus dunni | Savage, 1955 | (rediscovered) | Ecuador | Rediscovered | Access | |
| Atractus microrhynchus | (Cope, 1868) | (rediscovered) | Ecuador & Peru | Rediscovered | Access | |
| Atractus modestus | Boulenger, 1894 | Modest ground snake | (rediscovered) | Ecuador | Rediscovered | Access |
| Atractus wagleri | Prado, 1945 | (rediscovered) | Colombia | Rediscovered | Access | |
| Borikenophis sanctaecrucis | Cope, 1862 | Saint Croix racer, St Croix tree snake | c.1898 | St. Croix & Green Cay, U.S. Virgin Islands | Extinct | Access |
| Calamaria lateralis | Mocquard, 1890 | White-striped reed snakeWhite-striped reed snake | pre-1891 | Borneo | Missing | Access |
| Calamaria prakkei | Lidthe de Jeude, 1893 | Prakke's reed snake, Brike snake | c.1889? | Sabah, Malaysia, Borneo | Missing | Access |
| Cercophis auratus | (Schlegel, 1837) | (rediscovered) | Brazil & Suriname | Rediscovered | Access | |
| Chapinophis xanthocheilus | Campbell & Smith, 1998 | Guatemalan yellow-lipped snake | (rediscovered) | Guatemala | Rediscovered | Access |
| Chersodromus rubriventris | Taylor, 1949 | (rediscovered) | México | Rediscovered | Access | |
| Chironius vincenti | Boulenger, 1891 | St Vincent blacksnake | (rediscovered) | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Rediscovered | Access |
| Chrysopelea rhodopleuron viridis | Boie, 1827 | Sangihe flying snake, Moluccan flying snake | ? | Sulawesi, Indonesia | Missing | Access |
| Clelia clelia groomei | Greer, 1965 | Mussurana | ? | Grenada, Grenada Bank, Lesser Antilles | Extinct or rediscovered | Access |
| Clelia errabunda | Underwood, 1993 | Underwood's mussurana/massurana, Saint Lucia cribo, Black snake | 1800's | St. Lucia, St Lucia Bank, Lesser Antilles | Extinct | Access |
| Clelia sp. nov. 'Guadeloupe' | - | ? | Guadeloupe, Guadeloupe Bank, Lesser Antilles | Extinct if valid | Access | |
| Coniophanes andresensis | Bailey, 1937 | San Andres snake | (rediscovered) | Isla San Andres, Lesser Antilles | Rediscovered if valid | Access |
| Dendrophidion boshelli | Dunn, 1944 | Boshell's forest racer | (rediscovered) | Colombia | Rediscovered | Access |
| Dipsas mikanii septentrionalis | Cunha, Nascimento & Hoge, 1980 | (rediscovered) | Brazil | Rediscovered | Access | |
| Eirenis africana | Boulenger, 1914 | (rediscovered) | Djibouti | Rediscovered | Access | |
| Elachistodon westermanni | Reinhardt, 1863 | Indian egg-eating snake, Indian egg-eater, Westermann's snake, Indian egg eater snake | (rediscovered) | India | Rediscovered | Access |
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Emmochliophis miops
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(Boulenger, 1898) | (rediscovered) | Colombia & Ecuador (northwest) | Rediscovered | Access | |
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| Erythrolamprus cursor | Lacépède, 1789 | Martinique ground snake, Lacépède's ground snake, Martinique racer | 1968 | Martinique & Diamond Rock (=Rocher du Diamant), Martinique Bank, Lesser Antilles | Missing | Access |
| Erythrolamprus perfuscus | (Cope, 1862) | Barbados racer, Tan ground snake | 1963 | Barbados | Extinct | Access |
| Euprepiophis perlaceus | (Stejneger, 1929) | Szechwan rat snake | (rediscovered) | Shaanxi & Sichuan, China | Rediscovered | Access |
| Farancia erytrogramma seminola | Neill, 1964 | Southern Florida rainbow snake | 13 September 1952 | Fish Eating Creek, Florida, USA | Missing | Access |
| Geophis bellus | Myers, 2003 | (rediscovered) | Panama | Rediscovered | Access | |
| Hebius metusia | (Inger, Zhao, Shaffer & Wu, 1990) | (rediscovered) | Sichuan, China | Rediscovered | Access | |
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Herpetoreas pealii
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(Sclater, 1891) | Assam keelback | (rediscovered) | Arunachal Pradesh, India | Rediscovered | Access |
| Hypsiglena unaocularus | Tanner, 1946 | Clarión nightsnake | (rediscovered) | Clarión Island (=Isla Clarión), Mexico | Rediscovered | Access |
| Hypsirhynchus ater | Gosse, 1851 | Black racer, Jamaican racer, Jamaican tree-snake, Jamaican tree snake | 1900/c.1929 | Jamaica, the Caribbean | Missing | Access |
| Hypsirhynchus melanichnus | (Cope, 1862) | La Vega racer | 1910 | Hispaniola, the Caribbean | Missing | Access |
| Ialtris parishi | Cochran, 1932 | Parish's fanged snake, Tiburon banded racer | 1930 | Hispaniola, the Caribbean | Extinct | Access |
| Imantodes phantasma | Myers, 1982 | Blunt-headed vine snake, Phantasma tree snake | (rediscovered) | Colombia | Rediscovered | Access |
| Liophis ornatus | Garman, 1887 | Saint Lucia racer, St Lucia racer, Ornate ground snake, 'couresse' | (rediscovered) | St Lucia | Rediscovered | Access |
| Lycodon gammiei | (Blanford, 1878) | Gammie's wolf snake, Sikkim false wolf snake | (rediscovered) | India | Rediscovered | Access |
| Maculophis bellus chapaensis | (Bourret, 1934) | (rediscovered) | Vietnam | Rediscovered | Access | |
| Natrix natrix cypriaca | Hecht, 1930 | Cyprus grass snake | post-2007 | Paralimni Lakes, Cyprus | Missing | Access |
| Nerodia sp. nov. 'Abaco' | - | - | Late Pleistocene | Abaco Island, the Bahamas | Extinct | Access |
| Oligodon hamptoni | Boulenger, 1918 | (rediscovered) | China & Myanmar (=Burma) | Rediscovered | Access | |
| Oligodon macrurus | (Angel, 1927) | Angel's kukri snake | (rediscovered) | Binh Thuan Province, Vietnam | Rediscovered | Access |
| Oligodon melaneus | Wall, 1909 | (rediscovered) | Assam, India | Rediscovered | Access | |
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Oligodon perkinsi
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(Taylor, 1925) | (rediscovered) | Palawan archipelago, Philippines | Rediscovered | Access | |
| Omoadiphas cannula | McCranie & Cruz-Díaz, 2010 | Agalta Mountain forest snake | 1989 | near Sierra de Agalta National Park, Honduras | Missing | Access |
| Pantherophis sp. nov. 'Abaco' | - | - | Late Pleistocene | Abaco Island, the Bahamas | Extinct | Access |
| Paratapinophis praemaxillaris | Angel, 1929 | Angel's stream snake, Angel's mountain keelback, Brown stream snake | (rediscovered) | Laos & Thailand | Rediscovered | Access |
| Phalotris concolor | Ferrarezzi, 1994 | (rediscovered) | Minas Gerais state, Brazil | Rediscovered | Access | |
| Phalotris multipunctatus | Puorto & Ferrarezzi, 1993 | (rediscovered) | Brazil & Paraguay | Rediscovered | Access | |
| Phalotris nigrilatus | Ferrarezzi, 1993 | (rediscovered) | Paraguay | Rediscovered | Access | |
| Platyceps bholanathi | (Sharma, 1976) | Sharma’s racer, Nagarjunasagar racer | (rediscovered) | Andhra Pradesh (including Hyderabad) & Tamil Nadu, India | Rediscovered | Access |
| Rhadinaea cuneata | Myers, 1974 | Veracruz graceful brown snake | (rediscovered) | México | Rediscovered | Access |
| Rhadinella schistosa | (Smith, 1941) | Brokencollar graceful brown snake | (rediscovered) | Mexico | Rediscovered | Access |
| Rhynchocalamus arabicus | Schmidt, 1933 | Aden kukri snake | (rediscovered) | Oman & Yemen | Rediscovered | Access |
| Sibon argus | (Cope, 1876) | Argus snail sucker | (rediscovered) | Costa Rica & Panama | Rediscovered | Access |
| Stichophanes ningshaanensis | (Yuen, 1983) | Ningshan lined snake | (rediscovered) | Hubei Province & Shaanxi Province, China | Rediscovered | Access |
| Tantilla albiceps | Barbour, 1925 | Barbour's centipede snake, Panama white-headed snake | February 1925 | Barro Colorado Island (=Monumento Nacional Isla Barro Colorado), Gatun Lake, Panama Canal Zone, Panamá Oeste Province (eastern), Panama | Missing | Access |
| Tantilla briggsi | Savitzky & Smith, 1971 | Briggs' centipede snake | (rediscovered) | Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca State, Mexico | Rediscovered | Access |
| Tantilla insulamontana | Wilson & Mena, 1980 | Mountain centipede snake | (rediscovered) | Ecuador | Rediscovered | Access |
| Telescopus pulcher | (Scortecci, 1935) | (rediscovered) | Ethiopia & Somalia | Rediscovered | Access | |
| Thamnophis bovallii | Dunn, 1940 | (rediscovered) | Nicaragua | Rediscovered | Access | |
| Thamnophis eques insperatus | Conant, 2003 | Lake Zacapu garter snake | (rediscovered) | La laguna de Zacapu, Michoacán State, Mexico | Rediscovered | Access |
| Thamnophis rossmani | Conant, 2000 | Rossman’s gartersnake | (rediscovered) | central Nayarit, Mexico | Rediscovered | Access |
| Trimetopon viquezi | Dunn, 1937 | Viquez's tropical ground snake | 1927 | Siquirres, Costa Rica | Missing | Access |
| Tropidonophis punctiventris | (Boettger, 1895) | Halmahera keelback | (rediscovered) | Halmahera, Indonesia | Rediscovered | Access |
| Urotheca dumerilli | (Bibron, 1840) | (rediscovered) | Colombia | Rediscovered | Access | |
| Xenochrophis bellulus | (Stoliczka, 1871) | (rediscovered) | Myanmar (=Burma) | Rediscovered | Access | |
| Xenophidion schaeferi | Günther & Manthey, 1995 | Schäfer's spiny-jawed snake, Schaefer’s spine-jawed snake | (rediscovered) | Malaysia | Rediscovered | Access |
Family: Dipsadidae
| Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
| Apostolepis niceforoi | Amaral, 1935 | (rediscovered) | Colombia | Rediscovered | Access | |
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Emmochliophis fugleri
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Fritts & Smith, 1969 | Fugler’s shadow snake | (rediscovered) | Ecuador | Rediscovered | Access |
Family: Elapidae
| Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
| Aipysurus apraefrontalis | Smith, 1926 | Short-nosed sea snake, Sahul reef snake | (rediscovered) | Ashmore and Hibernia Reefs, northern Australia | Rediscovered | Access |
| Aipysurus foliosquama | Smith, 1926 | Leaf-scaled sea snake | (rediscovered) | Ashmore and Hibernia Reefs & Barrow Island, northern Australia | Rediscovered | Access |
| Aipysurus tenuis | Lönnberg & Andersson, 1913 | Arafura sea snake, Brown-lined sea snake, Mjoberg's seasnake | 1970 | Arafura Sea, Western Australia, Australia | Missing | Access |
| Bungarus sindanus | Boulenger, 1897 | (rediscovered) | India & Pakistan | Rediscovered | Access | |
| Calliophis beddomei | Smith, 1943 | Beddome’s coralsnake | (rediscovered) | India | Rediscovered | Access |
| Hydrophis inornatus | Gray, 1849 | Plain sea snake | pre-1850 | "Indian Ocean" | Missing | Access |
| Hydrophis laboutei | Rasmussen & Ineich, 2000 | - | ? | Chesterfield Reefs, New Caledonia | Still extant? | Access |
| Hydrophis nigrocinctus | Daudin, 1803 | Daudin's sea snake, Wall's sea snake | 1943 | Bay of Bengal, India | Missing | Access |
| Hydrophis parviceps | Smith, 1935 | (rediscovered) | Vietnam | Rediscovered | Access | |
| Hydrophis sibauensis | Rasmussen, Auliya & Böhme, 2001 | Kalimantan sea snake | ? | Sibau River, Kalimantan, Indonesia | Missing | Access |
| Hydrophis torquatus | Günther, 1864 | West coast black-headed sea snake | c.1998 or before | "Straits of Malacca, Gulf of Thailand and eastern coast of the Malay Peninsula (but not Singapore or the Natuna Sea)" | Missing | Access |
| Hydrophis vorisi | Kharin, 1984 | Estuarine sea snake, Plain-banded seasnake | c.1972? | Fly River, Papua New Guinea (southern) | Missing | Access |
| Micruroides euryxanthus neglectus | Roze, 1967 | Neglected Sonoran coralsnake | (rediscovered) | Jalisco & Sinaloa, Mexico | Rediscovered | Access |
| Oxyuranus microlepidotus | (McCoy, 1879) | Inland taipan, Fierce snake, Small-scaled snake | (rediscovered) | Australia | Rediscovered | Access |
| Suta spectabilis bushi | Storr, 1988 | Bush's hooded snake | 6 October 1986 or later | Scaddan, Western Australia, Australia | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
| Toxicocalamus ernstmayri | O’Shea et al., 2015 | Star Mountains worm-eating snake | (rediscovered) | Star Mountains, Western Province, Papua New Guinea | Rediscovered | Access |
Family: Homalopsidae
| Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
| Enhydris pahangensis | Tweedie, 1946 | Pahang mud snake, Pahang water snake | (rediscovered) | Malaysia | Rediscovered | Access |
Family: Lamprophiidae
| Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
| Aparallactus nigriceps | Peters, 1854 | Mozambique centipede-eater | (rediscovered) | Mozambique | Rediscovered | Access |
| Liophidium apperti | Domergue, 1983 (1984?) | - | 1968 | Madagascar | Missing | Access |
| Prosymna ornatissima | Barbour & Loveridge, 1928 | Ornate shovel-snout | (rediscovered) | Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania | Rediscovered | Access |
| Psammophis ansorgii | Boulenger, 1905 | Link-marked sand racer | (rediscovered) | Angola | Rediscovered | Access |
| Psammophylax rhombeatus ocellatus | Bocage, 1873 | - | (rediscovered) | Angola | Rediscovered | Access |
| Pseudoxyrhopus ankafinaensis | Raxworthy & Nussbaum, 1994 | Ankafina brook Snake, Ankafina ground snake | 1880 | Ankafina Mountain, High Plateau, Madagascar | Missing | Access |
Family: Leptotyphlopidae
| Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
| Leptotyphlops brasiliensis | Laurent, 1949 | (rediscovered) | Bahia state, Brazil | Rediscovered | Access | |
| Leptotyphlops salgueiroi | Amaral, 1954 | (rediscovered) | Brazil | Rediscovered | Access | |
| Mitophis leptepileptus | (Thomas, McDiarmid & Thompson, 1985) | Haitian border threadsnake | 1984 | Haiti, Hispaniola | Missing | Access |
Family: Madtsoiidae
| Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
| Wonambi naracoortensis | Smith, 1976 | Naracoorte primitive snake | Late Pleistocene | Australia | Extinct | Access |
Family: Pareidae
| Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
| Xylophis indicus | Beddome, 1878 | - | (rediscovered) | Meghamalai, Western Ghats, India | Rediscovered | Access |
Family: Tropidophiidae
| Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
| Trachyboa gularis | Peters, 1860 | Southern eyelash boa | late 1900's | Ecuador | Missing | Access |
| Tropidophis bucculentus | Cope, 1868 | Navassa Island dwarf boa | 1800's? | Navassa Island | Missing | Access |
| Tropidophis hendersoni | Hedges & Garrido, 2002 | Cuban khaki trope | (rediscovered) | Cuba | Rediscovered | Access |
Family: Typhlopidae
| Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
| Anilios batillus | (Waite, 1894) | Waite's blind snake, Batillus blind snake | pre-1895 | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | Missing | Access |
| Anilios insperatus | Venchi, Wilson & Borsboom, 2015 | Fassifern blind snake | 1992 | Queensland, Australia | Missing | Access |
| Argyrophis oatesii | (Boulenger, 1890) | Oates's blind snake | (rediscovered) | Andaman Islands, India | Rediscovered | Access |
| Cathethorinus melanocephalus | Duméril & Bibron, 1844 | Black-headed blindsnake, Enigmatic blind-snake | pre-1845 | ? | Missing | Access |
| Madatyphlops cariei | Hoffstetter, 1946 | Hoffstetter's worm snake | 1600's? | Mauritius | Extinct | Access |
| Ramphotyphlops aluensis | (Boulenger, 1887) | Taveuni blind snake, Taveuni blindsnake | (rediscovered) | Taveuni Island, Fiji | Rediscovered | Access |
| Ramphotyphlops exocoeti | (Boulenger, 1887) | Christmas Island blind snake | (rediscovered) | Christmas Island, Australia | Rediscovered | Access |
| Ramphotyphlops marxi | Wallach, 1993 | Marx's worm snake | ? | Samar Island, Philippines | Still extant? | Access |
| Typhlops sulcatus | Cope, 1868 | Navassa Island worm snake | 1905? | Navassa Island, Hispaniola | Extinct | Access |
| Typhlops tasymicris | Thomas, 1974 | Grenada Bank blindsnake | (rediscovered) | Grenada & Union Island, St. Vincent and the Grenadines | Rediscovered | Access |
| Typhlops thurstoni | Boettger, 1890 | Thurston's worm snake | (rediscovered) | Kerala, India | Rediscovered | Access |
| Typhlops tindalli | Smith, 1943 | (rediscovered) | Kerala, India | Rediscovered | Access | |
| Typhlops uluguruensis | Barbour, 1928 | (rediscovered) | Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania | Rediscovered | Access | |
| Xenotyphlops grandidieri | Mocquard, 1905 | (rediscovered) | Baie de Sakalava, northern Madagascar | Rediscovered | Access |
Family: Viperidae
| Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
| Bitis albanica | Hewitt, 1937 | Albany adder | (rediscovered) | Eastern Cape Province, South Africa | Rediscovered | Access |
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Bitis heraldica |
(Bocage, 1889) | Angolan adder | (rediscovered) | central plateau, Angola | Rediscovered | Access |
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| Crotalus lannomi | Tanner, 1966 | (rediscovered) | Jalisco State, Mexico | Rediscovered | Access | |
| Vipera anatolica | Eiselt & Baran, 1970 | (rediscovered) | Turkey | Rediscovered | Access | |
| Vipera barani | Böhme & Joger 1984 | (rediscovered) | Turkey | Rediscovered | Access | |
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Vipera latastei ebusitana
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Torres-Roi et al., 2020 | Eivissa viper, Ibiza viper | Holocene | Eivissa (= Ibiza), Balearic Islands, western Mediterranean | Extinct | Access |
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| Vipera wagneri | Nilson & Andrén, 1984 | Ocellated mountain viper, Wagner's viper | (rediscovered) | Turkey | Rediscovered | Access |
Appendix 1: Taxa not recorded for decades
"Das said there is another snake — Stoliczkia khasiensis, or the Khasi Earth Snake — which was discovered in Meghalaya’s Khasi Hills 150 years ago, but has not been seen after that."
Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/assam-keelback-snake-6483531/