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.
Oaxacan Coral Snake
A tricolor coral snake restricted to montane and foothill forests of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Rossman's Garter Snake
A little-known garter snake from western Mexico, named after herpetologist Douglas Rossman.
Liner's Garter Snake
A montane garter snake from the highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico, named after herpetologist Ernest Liner.
Nayarit Coral Snake
A western Mexican coral snake found along the Pacific coast of Nayarit and Jalisco, marked by classic red-black-yellow banding.
Marbled Sea Snake
A small sea snake with reduced fangs and greatly diminished venom, specialized for feeding on fish eggs rather than active prey, making it functionally harmless to humans.
Mustard-Bellied Snake
A small elapid named for its distinctive yellowish belly, found in a limited range of southeastern Australia.
Horned Sea Snake
A distinctive sea snake covered in small spiny scale projections, especially around the head, giving it a rough, thorny appearance unique among sea snakes.
Dubois's Sea Snake
A reef-dwelling sea snake of northern Australian waters known for its uniform coloration and potent venom.
Gould's Hooded Snake
A small elapid of southwestern Australia named for its dark head marking resembling a hood.
Ecuadorian Coral Snake
A coral snake native to Ecuador's lowland forests, displaying the classic red-black-yellow tricolor warning pattern.
Gunther's Garter Snake
A small, secretive East African garter snake, part of the elapid genus Elapsoidea, with weak venom and burrowing habits.
Kloss's Sea Snake
A small, banded sea snake found in coastal waters of the Gulf of Thailand region, named after British naturalist Cecil Boden Kloss.
Lake Cronin Snake
A rare and little-known elapid known only from a small area of southwestern Australia near Lake Cronin.
Mosaic Sea Snake
A slender, brightly patterned sea snake with a mosaic-like arrangement of dark blotches, found in shallow estuarine and coastal waters of Asia.
Jerdon's Sea Snake
A small, lesser-known sea snake found in the coastal waters of South and Southeast Asia, distinguished by its small size and relatively uniform coloration.
Elegant Coral Snake
A tricolor coral snake of humid montane and lowland forests in eastern Mexico.
King Rat Snake
A large, powerfully built East Asian rat snake with strongly keeled scales, known for its yellowish crossbanding and its role as a natural predator of venomous snakes.
Eastern Rat Snake
A large, glossy black constrictor common across the eastern U.S., often seen climbing trees or barn rafters in search of rodents and birds.
MacDowell's Sea Snake
A rarely documented sea snake from the Bay of Bengal region, named in honor of a herpetologist who studied elapid snakes.
Dwarf File Snake
A small African file snake with rough, keeled scales, named for its diminutive size relative to its larger relatives.
Mertens' Coral Snake
A South American coral snake honoring herpetologist Robert Mertens, found in the dry western forests of Ecuador and Peru.
Dwarf Pipe Snake
A tiny, rarely seen fossorial snake from Southeast Asia representing one of the most poorly known snake families in the world.
Bogert's Coral Snake
A rare, range-restricted Mexican coral snake named for herpetologist Charles Bogert, found only along the Oaxacan Pacific coast.
Bogert's Garter Snake
A montane garter snake from the highlands of Oaxaca, named after herpetologist Charles Bogert.