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The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species evaluates the conservation status of plant and animal species. The list is based on scientific assessment of an organism's status by experts.

Conservation status of the world's snakes

BOLYERIDAEBolyeria multocarinataRound Island Burrowing BoaEX DIPSADIDAE Borikenophis sanctaecrucisSaint Croix RacerEX TYPHLOPIDAE Typhlops carieiEX ELAPIDAE Aipysurus apraefrontalisSahul Reef Snake, Short-nosed Sea SnakeCRdecreasing ELAPIDAE Aipysurus foliosquamaLeaf-scaled Sea SnakeCRdecreasing DIPSADIDAE Alsophis antiguaeAntiguan RacerCRincreasing VIPERIDAE Bothropoides alcatrazAlcatrazes LanceheadCRstable VIPERIDAE Bothropoides insularisGolden Lancehead, Queimada Island BothropsCRstable CALAMARIIDAE Calamaria ingeriCRunknown CALAMARIIDAE Calamaria prakkeiPrakke's Reed SnakeCR COLUBRIDAE Chironius vincentiSt Vincent BlacksnakeCR PSEUDOXYRHOPHIIDAE Compsophis vinckeiCRdecreasing VIPERIDAE Crotalus catalinensisSanta Catalina Island RattlesnakeCRdecreasing VIPERIDAE Crotalus unicolorAruba Island RattlesnakeCR COLUBRIDAE Gongylosoma mukutensePulau Tioman Ground SnakeCR DIPSADIDAE Hypsirhynchus aterBlack RacerCR COLUBRIDAE Lampropeltis herreraeCRdecreasing DIPSADIDAE Liophis cursorLacépède's Ground SnakeCR COLUBRIDAE Lycodon chrysopraterosRoss' Wolf SnakeCRdecreasing COLUBRIDAE Masticophis anthonyiCRunknown ELAPIDAE Micrurus ruatanusRoatan Coral SnakeCRunknown VIPERIDAE Montivipera wagneriWagner's ViperCRdecreasing COLUBRIDAE Oligodon booliatiBoo-Liat's Kukri SnakeCRunknown NATRICIDAE Opisthotropis kikuzatoiKikuzato's Brook Snake, Kikuzatos Stream SnakeCR PROSYMNIDAE Prosymna ornatissimaOrnate Shovel-snoutCRunknown PSEUDOXYRHOPHIIDAE Pseudoxyrhopus ankafinaensisCRunknown TYPHLOPIDAE Typhlops lazelliCRunknown VIPERIDAE Vipera anatolicaCRdecreasing VIPERIDAE Vipera darevskiiDarevsky's ViperCRdecreasing VIPERIDAE Vipera orloviOrlov's ViperCRdecreasing TYPHLOPIDAE Xenotyphlops grandidieriCRunknown DIPSADIDAE Adelphicos daryiDary's Burrowing SnakeEN TYPHLOPIDAE Afrotyphlops gierraiGierra's Blind Snake, Usambara Spotted Worm SnakeENunknown ELAPIDAE Aipysurus fuscusDusky Sea Snake, Timor Reef SnakeENdecreasing PSEUDOXYRHOPHIIDAE Alluaudina mocquardiENunknown DIPSADIDAE Alsophis rijgersmaeiAnguila Racer, Leeward Island RacerEN DIPSADIDAE Alsophis rufiventrisOrange-bellied Racer, Red-bellied Racer, Saba RacerEN DIPSADIDAE Alsophis sanctonumTerre-De-Haut RacerENunknown NATRICIDAE Amphiesma metusiaWa Shan KeelbackENdecreasing PYTHONIDAE Aspidites ramsayiRamsay's Python, WomaEN COLUBRIDAE Boiga bourretiBourret's Cat SnakeENunknown COLUBRIDAE Boiga saengsomiBanded Cat Snake, Banded Green Cat SnakeENunknown VIPERIDAE Bothrops lojanusLojan LanceheadENunknown CALAMARIIDAE Calamaria yunnanensisYunnan Reed SnakeENunknown DIPSADIDAE Calamodontophis ronaldoiENunknown BOLYERIDAE Casarea dussumieriRound Island Boa, Round Island Ground Boa, Round Island Keel-scaled BoaEN HOMALOPSIDAE Cerberus microlepisENdecreasing DIPSADIDAE Chersodromus rubriventrisENdecreasing BOIDAE Corallus cropaniiCropan's BoaENunknown VIPERIDAE Crotalus pusillusENunknown VIPERIDAE Cryptelytrops kanburiensisKanburi Pit ViperENunknown ELAPIDAE Elapsoidea chelazziiSomali Garter Snake, Southern Somali Garter SnakeENunknown ELAPIDAE Elapsoidea nigraBlack Garter Snake, Usambara Garter SnakeENunknown HOMALOPSIDAE Enhydris vorisiENunknown BOIDAE Epicrates monensisMona Island BoaENunknown COLUBRIDAE Euprepiophis perlaceaPearl-banded Rat Snake, Sichuan Rat SnakeENdecreasing COLUBRIDAE Ficimia hardyiENdecreasing PSEUDOXYRHOPHIIDAE Heteroliodon fohyENdecreasing COLUBRIDAE Hierophis cypriensisCyprus Whip Snake, Zypern-schlanknatterENdecreasing NATRICIDAE Hologerrhum dermaliENdecreasing LAMPROPHIIDAE Lamprophis geometricusSeychelles House SnakeENdecreasing PSEUDOXYRHOPHIIDAE Liophidium mayottensisPeters' Bright SnakeENunknown DIPSADIDAE Liophis ornatusOrnate Ground Snake, St Lucia RacerEN DIPSADIDAE Liophis perfuscusBarbados RacerEN DIPSADIDAE Liophis williamsiWilliams' Ground SnakeENunknown PSEUDOXYRHOPHIIDAE Lycodryas guentheriENdecreasing PSEUDOXYRHOPHIIDAE Lycodryas inopinaeENunknown NATRICIDAE Lycognathophis seychellensisSeychelles Wolf SnakeENdecreasing VIPERIDAE Macrovipera schweizeriCyclades Blunt-nosed Viper, Milos ViperENstable VIPERIDAE Mixcoatlus barbouriBarbour's Montane Pit ViperENdecreasing VIPERIDAE Mixcoatlus melanurusENdecreasing VIPERIDAE Montivipera albizonaMountain ViperENdecreasing VIPERIDAE Montivipera bornmuelleriLebanon ViperENdecreasing VIPERIDAE Montivipera latifiiLatifi's ViperENdecreasing COLUBRIDAE Oligodon meyerinkiiSulu Short-headed SnakeENdecreasing NATRICIDAE Opisthotropis alcalaiGary's Mountain KeelbackENdecreasing PSEUDOXYRHOPHIIDAE Phisalixella variabilisENdecreasing COLUBRIDAE Pituophis ruthveniLouisiana Pinesnake, Louisiana Pine SnakeENdecreasing VIPERIDAE Popeia bunianaPulau Tioman Pit ViperENunknown VIPERIDAE Protobothrops mangshanensisMang Mountain Pit Viper, Mangshan Pit Viper, Mt. Mang Pit ViperENdecreasing VIPERIDAE Protobothrops sieversorumThree Horned-scaled PitviperENunknown VIPERIDAE Protobothrops trungkhanhensisTrungkhanh Pit ViperENunknown CALAMARIIDAE Pseudorabdion montanumMountain Burrowing SnakeENdecreasing PSEUDOXYRHOPHIIDAE Pseudoxyrhopus kelyENdecreasing TYPHLOPIDAE Ramphotyphlops suluensisENdecreasing DIPSADIDAE Rhadinaea marcellaeMarcella's Graceful Brown SnakeENdecreasing DIPSADIDAE Rhadinaea montanaNuevo Leon Graceful Brown SnakeENdecreasing COLUBRIDAE Tantilla flavilineataYellow-lined Centipede SnakeENstable COLUBRIDAE Tantilla ooliticaRim Rock Crowned SnakeENdecreasing COLUBRIDAE Tantilla shawiPotosí Centipede SnakeENunknown COLUBRIDAE Telescopus hoogstraaliENdecreasing NATRICIDAE Thamnophis melanogasterENdecreasing NATRICIDAE Thamnophis mendaxENdecreasing PSEUDOXYRHOPHIIDAE Thamnosophis martaeENdecreasing TYPHLOPIDAE Typhlops capitulatusHaitian Pale-Lipped BlindsnakeENunknown TYPHLOPIDAE Typhlops hectusTiburon Peninsula BlindsnakeENunknown TYPHLOPIDAE Typhlops monensisMona Blind SnakeEN TYPHLOPIDAE Typhlops schmutziSchmutz's Worm SnakeENunknown TYPHLOPIDAE Typhlops tasymicrisGrenada Bank BlindsnakeENunknown VIPERIDAE Vipera kaznakoviCaucasian (Caucasus) Viper, Caucasian ViperENdecreasing VIPERIDAE Vipera magnificaMagnificent ViperENdecreasing VIPERIDAE Vipera ponticaBlack Sea ViperENunknown VIPERIDAE Viridovipera truongsonensisTruong Son Pit ViperENunknown XENOSAURIDAE Xenosaurus newmanorumENdecreasing XENOSAURIDAE Xenosaurus platycepsENdecreasing XENODERMATIDAE Achalinus werneriAmami Takachiho SnakeVU NATRICIDAE Adelophis copeiVUdecreasing NATRICIDAE Amphiesma miyajimaeMaki's KeelbackVUdecreasing VIPERIDAE Atheris barbouriBarbour's Short-headed Viper, Uzungwe Mountain Bush ViperVUunknown VIPERIDAE Atheris ceratophoraUsambara Eyelash ViperVUunknown VIPERIDAE Atheris hirsutaTai Hairy Bush ViperVUunknown DIPSADIDAE Atractus modestusModest Ground SnakeVUunknown DIPSADIDAE Atractus niceforiNorthern Ground SnakeVUunknown DIPSADIDAE Atractus rouleiRoule's Ground SnakeVUunknown ELAPIDAE Austrelaps labialisPygmy CopperheadVU VIPERIDAE Bitis inornataPlain Mountain AdderVU VIPERIDAE Bitis schneideriNamaqua Dwarf AdderVU VIPERIDAE Bothriechis auriferYellow-blotched Palm Pit ViperVUdecreasing VIPERIDAE Bothriechis rowleyiRowley's Palm Pit ViperVUdecreasing VIPERIDAE Bothrops pirajaiPiraja's LanceheadVUdecreasing PSEUDOXYRHOPHIIDAE Brygophis coulangesiVUunknown ELAPIDAE Bungarus andamanensisAndaman's Krait, South Andaman KraitVUunknown ELAPIDAE Bungarus slowinskiiRed River KraitVUunknown DIPSADIDAE Calamodontophis paucidensTropical Forest SnakeVUdecreasing PSEUDOXYRHOPHIIDAE Compsophis zenyVUdecreasing DIPSADIDAE Coniophanes dromiciformisPeters' Running SnakeVUunknown VIPERIDAE Crotalus stejnegeriVUdecreasing VIPERIDAE Cryptelytrops honsonensisHon Son Pit ViperVUstable VIPERIDAE Cryptelytrops rubeusRuby-eyed Green PitviperVUdecreasing ELAPIDAE Denisonia maculataOrnamental SnakeVU COLUBRIDAE Dryocalamus philippinusVUdecreasing COLUBRIDAE Dryophiops philippinaPhilippine DryophiopsVUdecreasing ELAPIDAE Echiopsis atricepsLake Cronin SnakeVU HOMALOPSIDAE Enhydris longicaudaLonghead Water Snake, Longtailed Mud Snake, Tonlé Sap Water SnakeVUdecreasing BOIDAE Epicrates subflavusJamaican Boa, Yellow SnakeVU ELAPIDAE Furina dunmalliDunmall's SnakeVUdecreasing DIPSADIDAE Geophis juliaiVUdecreasing VIPERIDAE Gloydius shedaoensisShedao Island Pit ViperVUunknown DIPSADIDAE Heterodon simusSouthern Hog-nosed Snake, Southern Hognose SnakeVUdecreasing ELAPIDAE Hoplocephalus bungaroidesBroad-headed SnakeVU ELAPIDAE Hydrophis semperiLake Taal SnakeVUdecreasing ELAPIDAE Laticauda crockeriCrocker's Sea Snake, Rennell Island Sea KraitVUunknown ELAPIDAE Laticauda schistorhynchusFlat-tail Sea SnakeVUunknown COLUBRIDAE Leptophis modestusCloud Forest Parrot SnakeVUdecreasing PSEUDOXYRHOPHIIDAE Liophidium therezieniVUdecreasing DIPSADIDAE Liophis atraventerVUdecreasing PSEUDOXYRHOPHIIDAE Liopholidophis grandidieriGrandidier's Water SnakeVUunknown COLUBRIDAE Lycodon paucifasciatusRendahl's Wolf SnakeVUunknown PSEUDOXYRHOPHIIDAE Lycodryas citrinusVUunknown PSEUDOXYRHOPHIIDAE Lycodryas inornatusVUdecreasing LAMPROPHIIDAE Lycophidion nanusDwarf Wolf SnakeVUunknown ELAPIDAE Micrurus ephippiferVUdecreasing VIPERIDAE Montivipera albicornutaVUdecreasing ELAPIDAE Naja mandalayensisMandalay CobraVUdecreasing ELAPIDAE Naja siamensisBlack And White Spitting Cobra, Indo-chinese Spitting Cobra, Siamese CobraVUdecreasing NATRICIDAE Natrix megalocephalaColkhis Water Snake, Large-headed Water SnakeVUdecreasing ELAPIDAE Ogmodon vitianusFiji Snake, Viti BoloVU COLUBRIDAE Oligodon juglandiferWalnut Kukri SnakeVUunknown COLUBRIDAE Oligodon lacroixiLacroix Kukri SnakeVUunknown COLUBRIDAE Oligodon modestumSpotted-bellied Short-headed SnakeVUdecreasing COLUBRIDAE Oligodon pulcherrimusVUunknown ELAPIDAE Ophiophagus hannahHamadryad, King CobraVUdecreasing VIPERIDAE Ophryacus undulatusVUdecreasing COLUBRIDAE Orthriophis moellendorfiMoellendorff's Trinket SnakeVUdecreasing PSEUDOXYRHOPHIIDAE Pararhadinaea melanogasterVUdecreasing DIPSADIDAE Philodryas lividaVUunknown VIPERIDAE Popeia nebularisCameron Highlands Pit ViperVUunknown CALAMARIIDAE Pseudorabdion mcnamaraeMcnamara's Burrowing SnakeVUdecreasing CALAMARIIDAE Pseudorabdion talonuranVUunknown PSEUDOXYRHOPHIIDAE Pseudoxyrhopus oblectatorVUdecreasing PSEUDOXYRHOPHIIDAE Pseudoxyrhopus sokosokoVUunknown PYTHONIDAE Python bivittatusBurmese PythonVUdecreasing PYTHONIDAE Python kyaiktiyoVUunknown TYPHLOPIDAE Ramphotyphlops exocoetiChristmas Island Blind SnakeVU DIPSADIDAE Rhadinaea fulvivittisRibbon Graceful Brown SnakeVUdecreasing NATRICIDAE Storeria hidalgoensisVUdecreasing DIPSADIDAE Tantalophis discolorVUdecreasing COLUBRIDAE Tantilla boipirangaVUunknown COLUBRIDAE Tetralepis fruhstorferiFruhstorfer's Mountain SnakeVU NATRICIDAE Thamnophis gigasGiant Gartersnake, Giant Garter SnakeVUdecreasing NATRICIDAE Thamnophis scaligerVUdecreasing PSEUDOXYRHOPHIIDAE Thamnosophis stumpffiYellow-striped Water SnakeVUdecreasing DIPSADIDAE Thermophis baileyiVU NATRICIDAE Tropidonophis negrosensisVUdecreasing TYPHLOPIDAE Typhlops manniMann's Worm SnakeVUunknown VIPERIDAE Vipera dinnikiCaucasus Subalpine Viper, Dinnik's ViperVUdecreasing VIPERIDAE Vipera ebneriIranian Mountain Steppe ViperVUdecreasing VIPERIDAE Vipera eriwanensisAlburzi Viper, Armenian Steppe ViperVUdecreasing VIPERIDAE Vipera latasteiLataste's ViperVUdecreasing VIPERIDAE Vipera ursiniiMeadow Viper, Orsini's Viper, Orsinis ViperVUdecreasing XENOSAURIDAE Xenosaurus grandisVUdecreasing VIPERIDAE Agkistrodon bilineatusNTdecreasing NATRICIDAE Amphiesma taronensisTaron KeelbackNTunknown AMPHISBAENIDAE Amphisbaena hyporissorPuerto Rican Dusky Amphisbaena NTunknown AMPHISBAENIDAE Amphisbaena schmidtiPuerto Rican Dusky Amphisbaena, Tiburon Stout Anole NTdecreasing DIPSADIDAE Apostolepis multicinctaNTunknown NATRICIDAE Balanophis ceylonensisBlossom Krait, Sri Lankan KeelbackNTunknown NATRICIDAE Clonophis kirtlandiiKirtland's SnakeNTdecreasing PSEUDOXYRHOPHIIDAE Compsophis albiventrisNTunknown PSEUDOXYRHOPHIIDAE Compsophis fatsibeNTunknown COLUBRIDAE Conopsis amphistichaNTstable VIPERIDAE Daboia desertiDesert ViperNTdecreasing VIPERIDAE Daboia mauritanicaMoorish ViperNTdecreasing ELAPIDAE Echiopsis curtaBardickNTdecreasing COLUBRIDAE Elaphe quatuorlineataFour-lined SnakeNTdecreasing COLUBRIDAE Hemerophis socotraeSocotran RacerNTunknown PSEUDOXYRHOPHIIDAE Heteroliodon lavaNTdecreasing ELAPIDAE Hoplocephalus stephensiiStephen's Banded SnakeNTdecreasing ELAPIDAE Hydrophis pacificusLarge-headed Seasnake, Pacific Sea SnakeNTdecreasing COLUBRIDAE Lampropeltis ruthveniNTdecreasing ELAPIDAE Laticauda frontalisYellow-lipped Sea SnakeNTunknown ELAPIDAE Laticauda guineaiNTunknown ELAPIDAE Laticauda semifasciataChinese Sea SnakeNTunknown PSEUDOXYRHOPHIIDAE Liophidium pattoniNTdecreasing PSEUDOXYRHOPHIIDAE Liopholidophis dimorphusNTstable PSEUDOXYRHOPHIIDAE Lycodryas carletiNTunknown PSEUDOXYRHOPHIIDAE Lycodryas sanctijohannisSt. Johann's Tree SnakeNTunknown COLUBRIDAE Macroprotodon brevisFalse Smooth SnakeNTdecreasing VIPERIDAE Montivipera raddeiArmenian Viper, Armenian Viper, Radde's ( Rock) ViperNTdecreasing ELAPIDAE Naja philippinensisPhilippine Common CobraNTdecreasing NATRICIDAE Nerodia harteriBrazos River Watersnake, Brazos Watersnake, Brazos Water SnakeNTstable NATRICIDAE Nerodia paucimaculataConcho Watersnake, Concho Water SnakeNTstable DIPSADIDAE Ninia espinaliEspinal's Coffee SnakeNTunknown COLUBRIDAE Oligodon ancorusNorthern Short-headed SnakeNTdecreasing COLUBRIDAE Oligodon lungshenensisNTunknown COLUBRIDAE Oligodon perkinsiPerkin's Short-headed SnakeNTdecreasing NATRICIDAE Opisthotropis andersoniiAnderson's Mountain Keelback, Anderson's Stream SnakeNTdecreasing NATRICIDAE Opisthotropis daovantieniDao Van Tien's Stream SnakeNTunknown NATRICIDAE Opisthotropis guangxiensisGuanxi Mountain KeelbackNTunknown COLUBRIDAE Pantherophis gloydiEastern Foxsnake, Eastern Fox SnakeNTdecreasing VIPERIDAE Parias malcolmiKinabalu Green Pit ViperNTunknown VIPERIDAE Protobothrops cornutusHorned Pit ViperNTunknown PSEUDOXYRHOPHIIDAE Pseudoxyrhopus ambreensisNTunknown PSEUDOXYRHOPHIIDAE Pseudoxyrhopus analabeNTdecreasing PSEUDOXYRHOPHIIDAE Pseudoxyrhopus imerinaePlateau Brook SnakeNTunknown UROPELTIDAE Rhinophis drummondhayiDrummond-hay's Earth SnakeNTunknown ELAPIDAE Sinomicrurus japonicusJapanese Coral SnakeNTunknown COLUBRIDAE Sonora aemulaNTstable COLUBRIDAE Stegonotus muelleriMuller's Wolf SnakeNTdecreasing COLUBRIDAE Stilosoma extenuatumShort-tailed SnakeNTdecreasing PSEUDOXYRHOPHIIDAE Thamnosophis mavotendaNTunknown VIPERIDAE Trimeresurus brongersmaiBrongersma's Pit ViperNTunknown DIPSADIDAE Trimetopon sleviniSlevin's Tropical Ground SnakeNTunknown TYPHLOPIDAE Typhlops biminiensisNTunknown TYPHLOPIDAE Typhlops syntherusBarahona Peninsula BlindsnakeNTunknown VIPERIDAE Vipera baraniNTdecreasing VIPERIDAE Vipera lotieviLotiev's ViperNTdecreasing VIPERIDAE Vipera monticolaAtlas Dwarf ViperNTdecreasing VIPERIDAE Vipera transcaucasianaTranscaucasian Long-nosed ViperNTdecreasing reptiles-snakesreptiles-snakeshttps://s3.amazonaws.com/mongabay/charts/iucn-reptiles-snakes.jpg