Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
Cape Beaked Snake
A blunt-snouted, burrowing blind snake from southern Africa named for its distinctive beaked rostral scale.
Forsten's Cat Snake
A large, powerfully built cat snake found in India and Sri Lanka, known for its bold blotched pattern and strong climbing ability.
Gunther's Garter Snake
A small, secretive East African garter snake, part of the elapid genus Elapsoidea, with burrowing habits.
Sauter's Coral Snake
A small, secretive coral snake endemic to Taiwan, named after the naturalist Hans Sauter, with reclusive, nocturnal habits.
Bogert's Garter Snake
A montane garter snake from the highlands of Oaxaca, named after herpetologist Charles Bogert.
Horseshoe Whip Snake
A slender, patterned colubrid named for the horseshoe-shaped marking on the back of its head, found across southern Iberia and North Africa.
Chinese Sea Snake
One of the larger and more widely distributed true sea snakes, recognizable by its bold black and yellow-green banding, ranging across coastal Asian waters.
Lambert's Sea Snake
A moderately sized sea snake native to the Gulf of Thailand, closely related to the large-headed sea snake and named after a naturalist collector.
Dwarf Sand Snake
One of the smallest members of the Psammophis genus, this diminutive sand snake inhabits savanna and grassland regions of southern and central Africa.
African Beaked Snake
A fast-moving African colubrid with an upturned snout used for digging out rodent burrows.
Common Wolf Snake
A slender, nocturnal Asian colubrid with banding similar to that of kraits.
Conant's Garter Snake
A garter snake from the highlands of southern Mexico named in honor of herpetologist Roger Conant.
Papuan Black Snake
A large, glossy black elapid found in the wetlands and grasslands of southern Papua New Guinea.
Annulated Sea Snake
A widespread, boldly banded sea snake with alternating dark and pale rings, common in shallow coastal and estuarine waters across Asia.
Desert Coral Snake
A Mexican Pacific coast coral snake adapted to dry tropical habitats, with bold red, black, and white/yellow tricolor rings.
Western Shovelnose Snake
A small, boldly banded desert colubrid with a countersunk lower jaw and flattened snout adapted for swimming through loose desert sand.
Banded Wolf Snake
A nocturnal Southeast Asian colubrid with bold banding that resembles krait species.
Eastern Fox Snake
A stout blotched constrictor of the Great Lakes wetlands and prairies, closely related to the western fox snake.
Banded Kukri Snake
A boldly banded egg-eating colubrid found across Southeast Asian lowlands.
Olive Sea Snake
A common sea snake of Indo-Pacific coral reefs, known for its curious behavior toward divers and olive-brown coloration.
Spotted Harlequin Snake
A small, brightly patterned southern African elapid with a slender body and boldly spotted coloration, resembling coral snake relatives.
Peters' Thread Snake
A tiny, worm-like burrowing snake from Africa with smooth, glossy scales.
Yellow-Naped Snake
A small elapid marked with a pale yellow nape patch, found in woodland habitats of eastern Queensland.
Ground Snake Sonoran
A small, highly variable colubrid of the arid American Southwest, ranging from plain to boldly banded in color pattern across its range.