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.
Awl-Headed Snake
A small desert colubrid with a pointed, awl-like snout used for burrowing, closely related to the crowned leaf-nosed snake and adapted to sandy habitats.
Balsan Coral Snake
A slender tricolor coral snake endemic to Mexico's Balsas River depression, recognized by narrow black-white-black triads separated by broad red bands.
Liana Snake
A vividly patterned, slender arboreal snake of Amazonian and Central American forests, closely related to the red vine snake.
Mulga Snake
One of Australia's largest venomous snakes, the Mulga Snake is a robust, widespread elapid capable of delivering a large volume of venom.
Leopard Snake
A strikingly patterned, harmless colubrid from southern Europe often regarded as one of the continent's most beautiful snakes.
Sea Snake
A fully marine elapid adapted for life at sea, with a paddle-like tail and no need to return to land.
Diadem Snake
A robust desert colubrid with striking patterned coloration, found across arid regions from North Africa to South Asia.
Curl Snake
A small, dull-colored elapid of Australia's arid interior known for curling into a tight coil when threatened.
Flying Snake
A slender tree-dwelling colubrid capable of gliding between trees by flattening its body into a concave, wing-like shape.
Neckband Snake
A small, slender colubrid known for a banded pattern that abruptly changes partway down the body, and a tail that can detach.
Emerald Snake
A vividly emerald-green, non-venomous African forest snake known for its keeled scales and glossy iridescence.
Ornamental Snake
A small, patterned nocturnal elapid restricted to the Brigalow Belt of central Queensland, listed as vulnerable due to habitat loss.
Water Snake
A heavy-bodied, aquatic colubrid frequently mistaken for venomous cottonmouths.
Viperine Snake
A harmless aquatic colubrid from southwestern Europe and North Africa whose zigzag pattern mimics that of true vipers.
Vine Snake
An extremely slender, twig-like colubrid that camouflages among vines and branches, striking rapidly at lizard prey.
Montpellier Snake
A large, fast-moving rear-fanged colubrid of the Mediterranean, notable for its prominent brow ridges and defensive hood display.
Wagler's Snake
A nocturnal, vertical-pupiled colubrid from Mexico and Central America closely related to the widespread cat-eyed snakes.
Gopher Snake
A large, powerfully built colubrid often mistaken for a rattlesnake due to its defensive hissing and tail-vibrating display.
Dice Snake
A highly aquatic European colubrid named for its checkerboard-like dorsal pattern, closely tied to rivers, lakes, and coastal wetlands.
Bull Snake
A large, powerful colubrid famous for its loud hissing bluff display, often mistaken for a rattlesnake.
Mangrove Snake
A large, glossy black colubrid ringed with bright yellow bands, common in Southeast Asian wetlands and mangroves, with mild rear-fanged venom of little concern to humans.
Smooth Snake
A secretive, smooth-scaled European colubrid often mistaken for a viper, notable for constricting prey including other reptiles.
Cat Snake
A slender, nocturnal, rear-fanged colubrid named for its vertically elliptical, cat-like pupils, found across South Asia and the Middle East.
Kirtland's Snake
A small, secretive wetland snake with a reddish belly marked by bold black spots, now rare across much of its midwestern range.