Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
Worm Snake Eastern
A small, glossy, worm-like colubrid of eastern North American forests, spending nearly all its life burrowed in loose, moist soil.
Eastern Worm Snake
A tiny, glossy, worm-like burrowing snake with a pink belly, rarely seen above ground.
Eastern Hognose Snake
A theatrical colubrid famous for flattening its neck like a cobra and playing dead when threatened.
Eastern Indigo Snake
The longest native snake in North America, a glossy blue-black giant associated with gopher tortoise burrows.
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.
Crowned Snake
The largest of the crowned snakes, a secretive nocturnal elapid of eastern Australian forests, named for its pale head marking.
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.
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.
Marsh Snake
A moderately common small elapid of moist eastern Australian habitats, often found near water and marshy ground.
Ravergier's Snake
A slender, fast-moving diurnal whip snake found across arid and semi-arid habitats from the eastern Mediterranean through the Caucasus into Central Asia.
Dwarf Snake
A small, plain-colored colubrid found across the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, notable for its secretive habits and diminutive size.
Grey Snake
A small, uncommon elapid of inland eastern Australia's floodplains and grasslands, closely related to the Marsh Snake.
Dwyer's Snake
A small, dark-headed elapid found in rocky woodland habitats of eastern Australia.
Desert Black Snake
A glossy black elapid of arid Middle Eastern deserts, closely related to cobras.
Stephens' Banded Snake
A boldly banded, tree-dwelling elapid found in coastal forests of eastern Australia.
Texas Indigo Snake
A large, glossy blue-black to bronze-brown snake of South Texas brushland, closely related to the Eastern Indigo Snake.
Rough-Scaled Snake
A distinctive elapid with unusually keeled scales, found in rainforests and wet forests of eastern Australia.