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.
Olive Python
One of Australia's largest snakes, a plain olive-brown python found around rocky gorges and river systems in the continent's arid and tropical north.
Common Egg-eater
A remarkable African colubrid that feeds exclusively on bird eggs, using specialized vertebral spines in its throat to crack shells after swallowing them whole.
Guangxi Pit Viper
A stout forest pit viper found in the karst and montane forests of southern China and northern Vietnam.
Abaco Island Boa
A population of Bahamian boa specifically associated with the Abaco Islands in the northern Bahamas.
Dusky Pygmy Rattlesnake
A tiny, common rattlesnake of Florida wetlands and pinelands, notable for its buzzy, insect-like rattle.
Woma Python
A non-venomous python of Australia's arid interior, unusual among pythons for lacking heat-sensing labial pits.
Persian Viper
A rare and localized mountain viper endemic to a small area of the Alborz range in northern Iran.
Sri Lankan Green Pit Viper
A vividly colored green pit viper found only in Sri Lanka's forests and hill country, notable for striking eye coloration.
Kayaudi Dwarf Reticulated Python
A dwarf reticulated python population endemic to the small island of Kayuadi in Indonesia, notably reduced in size.
Palmerston Carpet Python
A locality of the Darwin carpet python subspecies from the Palmerston area near Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory.
Cyclops Green Tree Python
A locality form of the green tree python from the Cyclops Mountains rainforest reserve near Jayapura in northern Papua.
Caspian Cobra
A highly venomous cobra of Central and Southwest Asia's arid regions, adapted to some of the northernmost cobra ranges in the world.
Central American Dwarf Boa
A small, arboreal dwarf boa found in Central American rainforests, notable for its prehensile tail and slender build.
Uracoan Rattlesnake
A small, restricted-range rattlesnake found only in a limited area of savanna in northeastern Venezuela.
Southern Brown Egg-eater
A harmless, plain brown egg-specialist snake widespread in southern Africa, capable of swallowing bird eggs whole despite its small head.
Dwarf Burmese Python
A smaller-bodied insular form of the Burmese python found on Java, notably more modest in maximum size than mainland Burmese pythons.
Yapen Green Tree Python
An island locality of the green tree python from Yapen Island in Cenderawasih Bay off the northern coast of New Guinea.
Sumatran Pit Viper
A large, striking green pit viper found in the rainforests of Sumatra and Borneo, notable for its vivid coloration and arboreal lifestyle.
Kofiau Green Tree Python
A rare island locality of the green tree python from Kofiau Island in the Raja Ampat archipelago, notable for a relatively small, isolated population.
Mangshan Pit Viper
A rare and large pit viper endemic to a single mountain region in China, notable for its size and pale, mossy coloration.
Boddaert's Tropical Racer
A slender, fast-moving brown racer common across northern South America, active by day in forest and open habitats.
Saw-Scaled Viper
A small but highly venomous viper found across the Middle East and South Asia, notable for producing a distinctive rasping sound by rubbing its scales together and responsible for a large number of snakebite incidents in its range.
Barkly Tableland Death Adder
A grassland-dwelling death adder restricted to the black soil plains of the Barkly Tableland in northern Australia.
Southern Pacific Rattlesnake
A common rattlesnake of coastal and inland southern California, noted for its variable venom and dark diamond blotches.