Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
Northern Water Snake
A heavy-bodied, aquatic colubrid often mistaken for a cottonmouth, common around lakes, ponds, and rivers.
Velvety Green Night Adder
A smooth-scaled, bright green night adder found in East and Central African grasslands, distinguished from bush vipers by its rounded head and smooth scalation.
Northern Bandy-Bandy
A banded burrowing elapid of tropical northern Australia, closely related to the common bandy-bandy.
Northern Eyelash Boa
A small, heavily keeled forest-floor boa from Central and South America named for the spiny scales above its eyes.
Northern Pacific Rattlesnake
A widespread western rattlesnake found from forested foothills to coastal scrub, recognizable by its dark blotched pattern and prominent tail rattle.
Northern Green Snake
A slender, bright green tree-dwelling colubrid of West and Central Africa, well camouflaged among foliage.
Northern Green Anaconda
One of the world's largest and heaviest snakes, this massive semi-aquatic constrictor dominates the rivers and wetlands of the Amazon and Orinoco basins.
Common Krait
A nocturnal elapid of South Asia, glossy blue-black with faint white crossbands.
Common Lancehead
The most widespread lancehead of the Amazon Basin, found across tropical South America.
Barkly Tableland Death Adder
A grassland-dwelling death adder restricted to the black soil plains of the Barkly Tableland in northern Australia.
Common Bronzeback
A slender, fast-moving, day-active tree snake with a bronze-toned back, common across gardens and forest edges of the Indian subcontinent.
Northern Brown Snake
A fast, alert elapid closely related to the western brown snake, common across arid and tropical northern Australia.
Rubber Boa Northern
A small, smooth-skinned boa from western North America named for its rubbery, loose-fitting skin.
Northern Pine Snake
A large, powerful black-and-white blotched constrictor known for its loud hissing display and habit of burrowing in sandy pine habitats.
Northern Dwarf Crowned Snake
A small, rarely observed crowned snake restricted to the wet tropics of far north Queensland, distinguished by its pale head marking.
Northern Black-tailed Rattlesnake
A robust, calm-tempered rattlesnake of rocky desert and mountain terrain, easily recognized by its uniformly dark tail.
Northern Cat-eyed Snake
A nocturnal colubrid named for its vertical, cat-like pupils.
Common Garter Snake
One of the most widespread and familiar snakes in North America, known for its longitudinal stripes and highly variable coloration.
Common Sand Boa
A short, stout, patterned burrowing boa common across dry and semi-arid regions of the Indian subcontinent.
Common Bridal Snake
A small, slender nocturnal colubrid from South Asia with a delicate banded pattern.
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.
Common Wolf Snake
A slender, nocturnal Asian colubrid with banding similar to that of kraits.
Common Kukri Snake
A small banded colubrid named for its curved, kukri-knife-shaped rear teeth used to slit open reptile eggs.
Common Cat Snake
A slender, patterned nocturnal snake found across the Indian subcontinent, often mistaken for a young viper due to its triangular head and vertical pupils.