The following is a list of snakes of South Asia,
primarily covering the region covered by mainland India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh,
Bhutan, parts of
Myanmar and
the Andaman and Nicobar
Island chains. All families are covered except for the Colubridae
which is found here.This forms part of
the complete list of reptiles of South Asia.
Order Squamata - suborder Serpentes
Family
Typhlopidae
- Brahminy Blind Snake (Ramphotyphlops
braminus) Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
- Giant blind snake (Typhlops diardii) Northeast India, Bangladesh, China, Indo-China, Myanmar, Thailand, Malay region
- Pied blind snake (Typhlops leucomelas) Sri Lanka
- Jan's blind snake (Typhlops mirus) Sri Lanka
- Slender blind snake (Typhlops porrectus) Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
- Typhlops exiguus
- Typhlops beddomii
- Typhlops andamanesis
- Rhinotyphlops acutus
- Ramphotyphlops exocoeti
- (Typhlops tindalli)
- (Typhlops thurstoni)
- (Typhlops tenuicollis)
- (Typhlops pammeces)
- (Typhlops oligolepis)
- (Typhlops oatesii)
- (Typhlops meszoelyi)
- (Typhlops loveridgei)
- (Typhlops jerdoni)
- (Typhlops fletcheri)
Family
Cylindrophiidae
Family Uropeltidae
Family
Acrochordidae
Family Boidae
- Common sand boa Gongylophis conicus Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
- Red sand boa Eryx
johnii India, Pakistan
- Whitaker's sand boa Eryx
whitakeri Southwest India
- Indian rock python Python
molurus Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka,
Myanmar, Thailand, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Java
- Reticulated python Python reticulatus India (Arunachal Pradesh, Nicobars), Myanmar, China, Indo-China, Malay region
Family
Xenopeltidae
- Sunbeam snake Xenopeltis unicolor India (Nicobars), Myanmar, Thailand, China, Indo-China, Malay region
Family Elapidae
- Andamans krait Bungarus andamanensis India (Andamans)
- Common Indian krait Bungarus
caeruleus Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
- Sri Lankan krait Bungarus ceylonicus Sri Lanka
- Banded krait Bungarus
fasciatus Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Indo-China, China, Malay region
- Sindh krait Bungarus sindanus Pakistan, India
- Northeastern Hill Krait Bungarus bungaroides
- Lesser Black Krait Bungarus lividus
- Greater Black Krait Bungarus
niger
- Beddome's Coral Snake Calliophis beddomei
- MacClelland's coral snake Calliophis macclellandi Nepal, India, Myanmar , Indo-China, Taiwan
- Slender coral snake Calliophis melanurus Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka
- Black Coral Snake Calliophis nigrescens
- Bibron's Coral Snake Calliophis bibroni
- Monocled cobra Naja
kaouthia Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Indo-China, China
- Spectacled cobra Naja
naja Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
- Black cobra Naja oxiana
Central Asia, Pakistan, India
- Andaman cobra Naja sagittifera India (Andamans)
- King cobra Ophiophagus hannah India, Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, China, Indo-China, Malay region, Philippines
Family
Hydrophiidae
- Spine-tailed seasnake Aipysurus eydouxii (Gray, 1849)
- Large-headed sea snake Astrotia stokesii (Gray, 1846) Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Malay region
- Yellow-and-black sea snake Atretium schistosum India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka
- Olive-Headed Seasnake Disteira
major (Shaw, 1802)
- Disteira nigrocincta (Daudin, 1803)
- Wall's Sea Snake Disteira
walli Kharin, 1989
- Beaked Seasnake or Hook-nosed sea snake Enhydrina schistosa (Daudin, 1803) Persian Gulf, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Indo-China, Malay peninsula
- Faint-Banded Seasnake Hydrophis belcheri (Gray, 1849)
- Peters' Sea Snake Hydrophis bituberculatus Peters,
1872
- Hydrophis brooki Günther, 1872
- Blue sea snake Hydrophis caerulescens Shaw, 1802 Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, China, Malay region
- Annulated Sea Snake Hydrophis cyanocinctus Daudin, 1803
- Banded sea snake Hydrophis fasciatus (Schneider, 1799) Pakistan, India, Myanmar, Malay region
- Hydrophis inornatus (Gray, 1849)
- Kloss' Sea Snake Hydrophis klossi Boulenger, 1912
- Black-headed sea snake Hydrophis mammilaris Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka
- Black-banded sea snake Hydrophis nigrocinctus India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar
- Estuarine sea snake Hydrophis obscurus India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar
- Cochin banded sea snake Hydrophis ornatus Persian Gulf, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Malay region, Indo-China, China
- Persian Gulf Sea Snake Hydrophis lapemoides (Gray, 1849)
- Slender-Necked Seasnake Hydrophis melanocephalus (Gray,
1849)
- Yellow Sea Snake Hydrophis spiralis (Shaw, 1802)
- Collared Sea Snake Hydrophis stricticollis Günther,
1864
- Jerdon's sea snake Kerilia jerdonii India, Sri Lanka, Malay peninsula
- Bighead Sea Snake Kolpophis annandalei (Laidlaw, 1901)
- Short sea snake Lapemis
curtus (Shaw, 1802) Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Malay region,
Indo-China
- Yellow-lipped sea krait Laticauda colubrina India, East of the islands of the Sundas
- Laticauda laticaudata (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Hardwicke's Spine-Bellied Seasnake Lapemis hardwickii Gray, 1834
- Annulated sea snake Leioselasma cyanocincta Persian Gulf, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Malay region
- Yellow sea snake Leioselasma spiralis Persian Gulf, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Malay region
- Microcephalophis cantoris
- Slender narrow-headed sea snake Microcephalophis gracilis Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Malay region, China
- Yellow-bellied Sea snake Pelamis platurus
- Thalassophina viperina
- Anomalous Sea Snake Thalassophis anomalus
Family Viperidae
- Himalayan pit viper Gloydius himalayanus India, Pakistan, Nepal
- Levantine viper Macrovipera lebetina Middle East, Pakistan
- Russel's viper Daboia russelii
Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, China, Indo-China, islands of Java, Komodo, Flores, Indonesia
- Indian saw-scaled viper Echis
carinatus Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
- Echis megalocephalus
- Common hump-nosed pit viper Hypnale
hypnale India, Sri Lanka
- Millard's hump-nosed pit viper Hypnale nepa Sri Lanka
- Wall's hump-nosed pit viper Hypnale walli Sri Lanka
- Blotched pit viper Ovophis monticola Bangladesh, India, Nepal
- Brown spotted pit viper Protobothrops mucrosquamatus India, Bangladesh, China, Myanmar, Vietnam
- Protobothrops jerdonii
- White-lipped pit viper Trimeresurus albolabris India, Nepal, Bangladesh, China, Myanmar, Thailand, Sumatra, Java, Lesser Sundas up to Timor
- Anderson's pit viper Trimeresurus andersonii India (Andamans)
- Bamboo pit viper Trimeresurus gramineus Nepal, India
- Large-scaled green pit viper Trimeresurus macrolepis Southwest India
- Malabar rock pit viper Trimeresurus malabaricus Southwest India
- Tibetan pit viper Trimeresurus tibetanus Tibet, Nepal
- Trimeresurus stejnegeri
- Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus
- Pope's Pit Viper Trimeresurus popeiorum
- Medo Pit Viper Trimeresurus medoensis
- Trimeresurus labialis
- Trimeresurus erythrurus
- Cantor's Pit Viper Trimeresurus cantori
- Pseudocerastes persicus
References
- Romulus Whitaker & Ashok Captain, (2004) Snakes of India: The Field Guide. Draco Books, Chennai.
- Daniel, J.C.(2002) The Book of Indian Reptiles and
Amphibians. Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press. ISBN
0-19-566099-4
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