Thread Snakes

It is found on Martinique, Saint Lucia, and Barbados in the Lesser Antilles.

It is endemic to the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia and inhabits forest at elevations of 40–60 m.

It is endemic to the island of Barbados in the Caribbean Sea.

It is found in Mali, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Niger, and Chad, and possibly also in Cameroon. It inhabits wet and dry savannas at elevations of up to 700 m.

It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ghana, Nigeria, and Togo.

It is found in Ecuador at Abituagua, Balzapamba, Baños de Agua Santa, and Zamora. It inhabits forest at elevations of 1,000–1,800 m.

It is found in the Brazilian states of Bahia, Ceará, Goiás, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Paraíba, Piauí, Rondônia, and Tocantins, where it inhabits cerrado savannas and dry caatinga thickets.

It is known from the state of Tocantins, Brazil, where it lives in cerrado savannas.

It is known from two localities in the Colombian Andes.

It is found in Guyana, Suriname, and the Brazilian state of Roraima, and possibly also in south-eastern Venezuela. It inhabits humid tropical forests and savannas at elevations of 20–300 m.

It is found in the Atlántico Department of Colombia. It inhabits forest and shrubland at elevations of up to 800 m, but has also been found in rural gardens.

It is found in the Brazilian states of Bahia, Minas Gerais, and Tocantins, where it inhabits cerrado savannas.

It is endemic to Brazil and is found in the Serra do Espinhaço Mountains in the state of Minas Gerais, at elevations of up to 1,700 m. It inhabits high-altitude meadows.

It is found in the Colombian departments of Antioquia, Caldas, and Valle del Cauca. It inhabits forest at elevations of 1,600–2,200 m.

It is endemic to Brazil, where it is found in the Distrito Federal and the Brazilian states of Bahia, Goiás, and Mato Grosso. It inhabits grassland and savanna.

It is known only from Santander Department, Colombia. It inhabits humid mountain rainforests at elevations of 1,750–1,824 m.

It is found in the Brazilian states of Bahia, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, and Rio de Janeiro. It inhabits Atlantic forests and caatinga thickets.

It is endemic to Ecuador.

It is found in southern Namibia and western South Africa. It inhabits thickets of bushes.

It is found in Namibia and north-western South Africa. It inhabits the Namib Desert, semi-deserts, and dry savannas at elevations of 50–1,500 m.

It is found in north-western Namibia and southern Angola. It inhabits dry savannas at elevations of 300–1,200 m.

It is found in southern Angola, inhabiting dry savannas with spurges and baobabs, as well as wooded miombo savannas. It occurs at elevations of up to 1,300 m.

It is endemic to the southwestern coast of Angola. It inhabits coastal sand dunes covered with shrub vegetation dominated by spurges.

It is known from a number of localities in Gambia, southern Morocco, Algeria, southern Tunisia, Mauritania, northern Mali, and north-eastern Niger. It inhabits the Sahara Desert, where it is found in oases and wadis at elevations of up to 1,100 m.

It is found in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, southern Iran, and possibly the Arabian Peninsula.

It is found in southwestern Saudi Arabia and southwestern Yemen at elevations of 1,350–1,460 m.

It is found in Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mauritania, Niger, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda, and possibly in Libya. It inhabits dry shrubbery, as well as fields and gardens near water bodies, at elevations of up to 400 m.

It is known from a number of localities in south-eastern Tanzania and northern Malawi and Mozambique. It inhabits miombo woodlands at elevations of up to 130 m.

It is found in eastern Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, southern Somalia, north-eastern South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. It inhabits savannas.

It is found in isolated populations across northern Africa and in south-western Asia. It inhabits Mediterranean thickets, semi-deserts, and dry savannas, and is found near human settlements at elevations of up to 1,250 m.

It is endemic to the island of Socotra. It inhabits a variety of habitats, including palm groves, open sandy areas, rocky areas, shrub thickets, rocky hills with little vegetation, and wadis.

It is found in West Africa (Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, and possibly Guinea) and in Middle Africa (Central African Republic). It inhabits wet savanna and dry forest.

It is endemic to the southern Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa. It inhabits savannas and agricultural lands with moist soil at elevations of 50–1,525 m.

It is found in Ethiopia and Kenya. It inhabits dry meadows and dry acacia and commiphora thickets.

It is found in Senegal, Guinea, and Uganda. It inhabits agricultural areas.

It is endemic to the island of Socotra in Yemen. It inhabits forest and shrubland at elevations from sea level to 995 m.

It is a genus of snakes in the family Leptotyphlopidae. Representatives of this genus occur in Africa, West Asia, and South Asia.

It is found in central areas of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa and elsewhere in north-eastern and eastern South Africa, as well as in Lesotho and Eswatini. It inhabits meadows at elevations of up to 1,600 m.

It is found in Eswatini, southern Mozambique, and South Africa. It inhabits savanna and shrubland at elevations of 250–1,600 m

It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and northern Zambia. It inhabits savanna and shrubland at elevations of 650–1,370 m.

The species occurs in southern Zambia and Malawi, northern and eastern Zimbabwe, central and southern Mozambique, north-eastern South Africa, and Eswatini, and possibly also eastern Botswana. It inhabits dry tropical forests, wet savannas and grasslands, under stones and fallen leaves, and in termite mounds.

It is endemic to South Africa, occurring in southern Limpopo and northern Mpumalanga. It inhabits high-altitude meadows, under rocks, and old termite mounds at elevations of 1,300–1,700 m.

It occurs in southern and central Africa, with confirmed records from Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Zambia. Its preferred habitat is savannas, but it may also be found in disturbed or artificial terrestrial environments.

It is found exclusively along the coast of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania in East Africa. It inhabits coastal forests and humid savannas at altitudes of up to 100 m.

It is found on the mountain plateaus of the East African Plateau in Kenya and Tanzania. It inhabits wet and dry savannas, grasslands, and shrublands at altitudes of up to 1,500 m.

It is endemic to the Western and Eastern Cape Provinces of South Africa. It inhabits bushes, meadows, and savannas.

It is found in Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Eswatini, and western Lesotho. It inhabits wet and dry savannas, grasslands, and coastal scrub.

It is endemic to South Africa, occurring in the provinces of KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape. It inhabits exclusively wooded areas.

It is found in the Lubombo Mountains on the border of Eswatini and Mozambique, and probably also in South Africa. It inhabits montane savannas at altitudes of 125–700 m.

This is a genus of nonvenomous blind snakes, endemic to Africa and found throughout the continent.

It is endemic to Kenya. It inhabits the transition zone between East African evergreen shrublands and Acacia–Commiphora bushland at an altitude of 1,300 m.