Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
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.
Water Snake
A heavy-bodied, aquatic colubrid frequently mistaken for cottonmouths.
Viperine Snake
An aquatic colubrid from southwestern Europe and North Africa whose zigzag pattern resembles that of true vipers.
Mangrove Snake
A large, glossy black colubrid ringed with bright yellow bands, common in Southeast Asian wetlands and mangroves.
Smooth Snake
A secretive, smooth-scaled European colubrid often mistaken for a viper, notable for constricting prey including other reptiles.
Muller's Snake
A small banded burrowing elapid found in arid regions of western and central Australia.
Cat Snake
A slender, nocturnal 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.
Ringneck Snake
A small, widespread North American snake recognized by a bright yellow, orange, or cream neck ring against a dark, uniform body.
Rainbow Snake
A glossy, iridescent black snake with three bright red or pink stripes running the length of its body, closely tied to freshwater eel populations.
Night Snake
A small, secretive, cat-eyed colubrid of arid western North America.
Carpentaria Snake
A small, slender elapid restricted to the savanna country around the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Bridal Snake
A slender relative of the diadem snakes endemic to the Zagros region of western Iran, marked with fine, small scales and a subtly blotched pattern.
Lined Snake
A small, garter snake-like colubrid of the central United States, identified by a double row of dark half-moon belly markings.
Herald Snake
A small, common African colubrid recognized by its reddish lips and flattening display.
Trinket Snake
A slender, boldly patterned snake often mistaken for other species due to its display.
Fishing Snake
A heavy-bodied, strongly aquatic colubrid of South American wetlands specialized for catching fish and eels.
Tiger Snake
An Australian elapid known for its banded pattern and flattened-neck display.
Rat Snake
A large, fast-moving snake widespread across South and Southeast Asia, valued for controlling rodent populations.
Grass Snake
A common European snake closely tied to wetlands and known for its distinctive yellow neck collar and bluffing display.
Texas Blind Snake
A tiny, worm-like burrowing snake of Texas and northern Mexico, occasionally found in the nests of ants and termites that it feeds on.
Desert Blind Snake
A tiny, worm-like burrowing snake of the American Southwest deserts with vestigial eyes hidden beneath translucent scales.
Brahminy Blind Snake
A tiny, worm-like blind snake and the only known snake species that reproduces entirely by parthenogenesis, spreading globally in nursery soil.