Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with venomous status, family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell look-alikes apart.
Diamond Python
A cool-climate subspecies of carpet python from southeastern Australia, marked with diamond-shaped clusters of pale scales on a black background.
Elephant Trunk Snake
A wholly aquatic snake with loose, baggy, wrinkled skin covered in tiny rough scales, giving it a texture reminiscent of an elephant's trunk.
Black File Snake
A small, dark, heavily keeled fossorial snake from East Asian forests, named for the rasp-like texture of its scales.
Speckled Brown Snake
A medium-sized brown snake species from the interior of Queensland, named for the fine speckled pattern often present on its scales.
San Diego Gopher Snake
A large southern California gopher snake subspecies frequently seen in coastal sage scrub and chaparral habitats.
Copper-Headed Trinket Snake
A large, striped colubrid with a coppery head and radiating facial lines, widespread across South and Southeast Asia.
New Guinea Small-Eyed Snake
A large, potent elapid found in New Guinea, notable for its small eyes and highly variable coloration.
Aesculapian Snake
A large, agile European colubrid historically linked to the symbol of medicine, favoring warm woodlands and old buildings.
Florida Green Water Snake
A large, heavy-bodied, uniformly greenish water snake common in Florida's lakes, marshes, and swamps.
Bull Snake
A large, powerful colubrid famous for its loud hissing bluff display, often mistaken for a rattlesnake.
Boa Constrictor
A large, adaptable New World constrictor found across a wide range of tropical and subtropical habitats.
Cape File Snake
A distinctive African colubrid with unusually rough, file-like body scales and a specialized diet that includes other snakes, notably venomous species.
Peters's Sea Snake
A distinctive sea snake with raised, spine-like scales on its head, found in shallow coastal waters of northern Australia and Southeast Asia.
Diamondback Water Snake
A large, heavy-bodied water snake with a distinctive dark, diamond-shaped netlike pattern on an olive-brown background.
Texas Lyresnake
A slender, rear-fanged desert snake with large eyes and a distinctive lyre-shaped mark on top of its head.
Indian Python
A large, non-venomous python native to the Indian subcontinent, one of the largest snakes in Asia and a species of conservation concern.
Black-banded Cat-eyed Snake
A widespread nocturnal colubrid of the Americas with large cat-like eyes and a banded or blotched pattern, common near wetlands.
Spine-Bellied Sea Snake
A stout, small-headed sea snake with distinctly keeled belly scales, common in shallow tropical and subtropical waters and frequently caught as bycatch by trawlers.
Amethystine Python
One of the longest snakes in the world, this iridescent brown python takes its name from the amethyst-like sheen its scales cast in sunlight.
Egyptian Cobra
A large, highly venomous cobra widespread across Africa, historically significant in ancient Egyptian culture and iconography.
Western Rat Snake
A large, dark constrictor of the central U.S. that darkens with age, closely related to the eastern and gray rat snakes.
Papuan Taipan
A large, highly venomous taipan subspecies found in the grasslands and agricultural areas of southern Papua New Guinea.
Amazonian Coral Snake
A large tricolor coral snake of the Amazon rainforest with broad black, red, and white/yellow ring triads.
Big Bend Patch-Nosed Snake
A desert colubrid with an enlarged, upturned rostral scale used for digging, marked by a bold pale vertebral stripe.