Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
Speckled Brown Snake
A medium-sized brown snake species from the interior of Queensland, named for the fine speckled pattern often present on its scales.
Eastern Small-Eyed Snake
A small, glossy black nocturnal elapid widespread along the eastern Australian coast and ranges.
Eastern Kingsnake
A glossy black snake marked with narrow chain-like yellow or white bands, famed for preying on other snakes.
Mexican Yellowbelly Brown Snake
A small, secretive brown snake from southern Mexico distinguished by its pale yellowish underside.
Brown-Lined Sea Snake
A slender sea snake with fine brown longitudinal striping over a pale body, native to shallow coastal waters of the Gulf of Thailand region.
Brown-banded Water Snake
A common, semi-aquatic South American snake with brown banding, well adapted to life in rivers, ponds, and marshes.
Brown Sipo
A slender, fast-moving brown colubrid of the Amazon rainforest, active during the day in vegetation and forest edges.
Southern Brown Egg-eater
A plain brown egg-specialist snake widespread in southern Africa, capable of swallowing bird eggs whole despite its small head.
Brown's Coral Snake
A tricolor coral snake of Pacific-slope forests in southern Mexico and northern Central America.
Crowned Snake
The largest of the crowned snakes, a secretive nocturnal elapid of eastern Australian forests, named for its pale head marking.
Mulga Snake
One of Australia's largest snakes, the Mulga Snake is a robust, widespread elapid of arid and semi-arid country.
Milk Snake
A boldly banded colubrid whose red, black, and pale banding resembles that of coral snakes across much of its range.
Indigo Snake
The longest native snake in the United States, glossy blue-black and known for its calm demeanor.
Mud Snake
A glossy black semi-aquatic snake with a vivid red-and-black checkered belly, often called the 'hoop snake' or 'stinging snake' in folklore.
Hognose Snake
A theatrical, upturned-snouted colubrid famous for its dramatic bluffing displays, including hood-flattening, hissing, and playing dead.
Vine Snake
An extremely slender, twig-like colubrid that camouflages among vines and branches, striking rapidly at lizard prey.
Little Spotted Snake
A tiny, faintly spotted elapid of inland grasslands, closely related to the little whip snake.
Blotched Snake
A large, powerfully built ratsnake of the Caucasus and steppe regions, patterned with bold dark blotches along a pale body.
Coral Snake
A brightly ringed elapid with red, yellow, and black bands, known for the order in which its bands touch.
Bark Snake
A small, cryptically colored African colubrid that lives on tree bark and rock surfaces.
Worm Snake
A tiny, glossy, worm-like colubrid of the eastern United States that spends nearly all its life burrowed underground in loose soil and leaf litter.
Olive Sea Snake
A common sea snake of Indo-Pacific coral reefs, known for its curious behavior toward divers and olive-brown coloration.
Plain Tree Snake
A fast-moving, slender brown colubrid found in the forests of Central America and northwestern South America.
Short-Nosed Snake
A small, secretive elapid endemic to the heathlands and forests of southwestern Western Australia, notable for its blunt snout.