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.
Flat-Nosed Pit Viper
A little-known montane pit viper of northern Myanmar and adjacent regions, noted for its flattened snout profile.
Millard's Hump-Nosed Pit Viper
A small, stout, terrestrial hump-nosed pit viper endemic to Sri Lanka with an upturned snout.
Big Bend Patch-Nosed Snake
A desert colubrid with an enlarged, upturned rostral scale used for digging, marked by a bold pale vertebral stripe.
Sri Lankan Hump-Nosed Pit Viper
A small terrestrial pit viper of Sri Lanka and southern India, historically underestimated in medical significance despite its wide distribution.
Sri Lankan Pit Viper
A small, well-camouflaged pit viper once considered mildly venomous but now known to cause serious bites, including bleeding disorders.
Western Shovelnose Snake
A small, boldly banded desert colubrid with a countersunk lower jaw and flattened snout adapted for swimming through loose desert sand.
Southern Hognose Snake
A small, upturned-snouted snake of sandy southeastern habitats, famous for its dramatic bluffing displays and playing dead.
Levant Viper
A large, robust viper subspecies found across the Levant and Caucasus, closely related to the widespread Blunt-Nosed Viper.
Levantine Viper
One of the largest and most medically important vipers of the Middle East and Central Asia, capable of delivering a substantial venom dose.
Sinai Diadem Snake
A robust desert colubrid with a bold, saddle-like blotched pattern, known for its bluffing threat display and wide desert distribution.
Lataste's Viper
A small viper of the Iberian Peninsula and northwestern Africa, recognized by a small upturned snout scale.
Mexican Hognose Snake
A stocky, upturned-snouted snake famous for its dramatic defensive bluff display, including hissing, hood-flattening, and death-feigning.
Slender Hognosed Pit Viper
A slender terrestrial pit viper of Pacific dry forest habitats in Central America, related to other hognosed pit vipers.
Milos Viper
A rare, island-endemic viper found only on Milos and a few nearby Cycladic islands in Greece, notable for its restricted range and conservation concern.
Awl-Headed Snake
A small desert colubrid with a pointed, awl-like snout used for burrowing, closely related to the crowned leaf-nosed snake and adapted to sandy habitats.
Beaked Sea Snake
A highly venomous, fully aquatic sea snake often entangled in fishing nets, considered responsible for many sea snake bite incidents.
Green Vine Snake
A slender, bright green colubrid of the Indian subcontinent with an elongated pointed snout, blending seamlessly into foliage and rarely posing danger to humans.
Mole Snake
A large, powerfully built, non-venomous African snake specialized in preying on burrowing rodents.
Western Hognose Snake
A stout, upturned-nosed colubrid of the North American prairies, known for its bluffing displays and generally docile nature.
Indian Python
A large, non-venomous python native to the Indian subcontinent, one of the largest snakes in Asia and a species of conservation concern.
California Mountain Kingsnake
A vividly banded non-venomous kingsnake native to the Pacific coast, resembling venomous coral snakes despite lacking venom.
Olive House Snake
A plain, uniformly colored non-venomous snake from southern Africa often found near water and moist habitats.
Ball Python
A small, docile, non-venomous python native to West and Central Africa, famous for curling into a tight ball as a defensive posture.
Cape House Snake
A common, non-venomous constrictor found throughout southern Africa, frequently encountered near human settlements where it hunts rodents.