Snakes of Sri Lanka

Suborder SEREPENTES

File Snakes (Acrochordidae)
1 Wart Snake (Acrochordus granulatus)

Pythons & Boas (Boidae)
2 Sand Boa (Gongylophis conica)
3 Indian Python (Python molurus)

Pipe Snakes (Cylindrophidae)
4 Pipe Snake (Cylindrophis maculata)

Colubrid Snakes (Colubridae)
5 Green Vine Snake (Ahaetulla nasuta)
6 Brown Vine Snake (Ahaetulla pulverulenta)
7 Buff-striped Keelback (Amphiesma stolatum)
8 Banded Racer (Argyrogena fasciolata)
9 Boie's Roughside (Aspidura brachyorrhos)
10 Cope's Roughside (Aspidura copei)
11 Deraniyagala's Roughside (Aspidura deraniyagalae)
12 Guenther's Drummond-Hay's Roughside (Aspidura drummondhayi)
13 Ferguson's Roughside (Aspidura guentheri)
14 Common Roughside (Aspidura trachyprocta)
15 The Olive Keelback Watersnake (Atretium schistosum)
16 Sri Lanka Keelback (Balanophis ceylonensis)
17 Barne's Cat Snake (Boiga barnesii)
18 Beddoms Cat Snake (Boiga beddomei)
19 Sri Lanka Cat Snake (Boiga ceylonensis)
20 Forsten's Cat Snake (Boiga forsteni)
21 Gamma Cat Snake (Boiga trigonatus)
22 Ranawana's Golden Cat Snake (Boiga Ranawanei)
23 Dog-faced Water Snake (Cerebrus rynchops)
24 The Sri Lanka Wolf Snake (Cercaspis carinata)
25 Ornate Flying Snake (Chrysopelea ornata)

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26 Striped Flying Snake (Chrysopelea taprobanica)
27 Trinket Snake (Coeloganthus helena)
28 Boulenger's Bronzeback (Dendrelaphis bifrenalis)
29 Gunther's Bronze Back (Dendrelaphis caudolineolatus)
30 Oliver's Bronze Back (Dendrelaphis oliveri)
31 Common Bronze Back (Dendrelaphis tristis)
32 Scarce Bridal Snake (Dryocalamus gracilis)
33 Bridal Snake (Dryocalamus nympha)
34 Gerard's Water Snake (Gerarda prevostianus)
35 TBlack Spine Snake (Haplocercus ceylonensis)
36 Reed Snake (Liopeltis calamaria)
37 Wolf Snake (Lycodon aulicus)
38 Flowery Wolf Snake (Lycodon osmanhilli)
39 Shaw's Wolf Snake (Lycodon striatus)
40 The Green Keelback (Macropisthodon plumbicolor)
41 Common Kukri Snake (Oligodon arnensis)
42 Templeton's Kukri Snake (Oligodon calamarius)
43 Dumerul's Kukri Snake (Oligodon sublineatus)
44 The Variegated Kukri Snake (Oligodon taeniolata)
45 Russell's Kukri Snake (Oligodon taeniolata)
46 Rat Snake (Ptyas mucosa)
47 Jerdon's Polyodent (Sibynophis subpunctatus)
48 The Checkered Keelback (Xenochrophis asperrimus)
49 The Checkered Keelback (Xenochrophis piscator)

Elapid Snakes (Elapidae)
50 The Common Krait (Bungarus ceylonicus)
51 Sri Lanka Krait (Bungarus ceylonicus)
52 Sri Lanka Coral Snake (Calliophis melanurus)
53 Indian Cobra (Naja naja)

Sea Snakes (Hydrophiidae)
54 Stoke's Sea Snake (Astrotia stokesii)
55 Hook Nose Sea Snake (Enhydrina schistosa)
56 Peter's Sea Snake (Hydrophis bituberculatus)
57 The Chitul (Hydrophis cyanocinctus)
58 John's Sea Snake (Hydrophis gracilis)
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A Checklist of the Snakes of Sri Lanka
59 Persian Gulf Sea Snake (Hydrophis lapemoides)
60 Gray's Sea Snake (Hydrophis ornatus)
61 Narrow Banded Sea Snake (Hydrophis spiralis)
62 Guenther's Sea Snake (Hydrophis stricticollis)
63 Jerdon's Sea Snake (Kerilia jerdonii)
64 Shaw's Sea Snake (Lapemis curtus)
65 Yellow-bellied Sea Snake (Pelamis platurus)
66 Schmidt's Sea Snake (Thalassophina viperina)

Worm Snakes (Typhlopidae)
67 Common Blind Snake (Ramphotyphlops braminus)
68 Smith's Blind Snake (Typhlops ceylonicus)
69 Lanka Blind Snake (Typhlops lankaensis)
70 Pied Tylophs (Typhlops leucomelas)
71 Malcolm's Blind Snake (Typhlops malcolmi)
72 Jan's Blind Snake (Typhlops mirus)
73 Stoliczka's Blind Snake (Typhlops porrectus)
74 Taylor's Blind Snake (Typhlops tenebrarum)
75 Veddha's Blind Snake (Typhlops veddae)
76 Violet Blind Snake (Typhlops violaceus)

Sheildtails (Uropeltidae)
77 Large Shield Tail (Pseudotyphlops philippinus)
78 Blyth's Earth Snake (Rhinophis blythii)
89 Orange Shield Tail (Rhinophis dorsimaculatus)
80 Drummond-Hay's Earth Snake (Rhinophis drummondhayi)
81 Kelaarts Earth Snake (Rhinophis homolepis)
82 Schneider's Earth Snake (Rhinophis oxyrynchus)
83 Cuvier's Earth Snake (Rhinophis philippinus)
84 Willey's Earth Snake (Rhinophis porrectus)
85 Muller's Earth Snake (Rhinophis punctatus)
83 Deraniyagala's Shield Tail (Rhinophis tricoloratus)
87 Black Shield Tail (Uropeltis melanogaster)
88 Phillips's Shield Tail (Uropeltis phillipsi)