Snake Identifier

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.

Bahamian Boa

A West Indian boa endemic to islands of the northern Bahamas.

Top End Carpet Python

Top End Carpet Python

A broadly distributed population of the Darwin carpet python subspecies across the tropical Top End region of the Northern Territory.

Mexican Cantil

Mexican Cantil

A dark, bold-patterned pit viper of Mexican tropical lowlands, closely related to the cottonmouth and copperhead.

Banded Water Snake

Banded Water Snake

A heavy-bodied, boldly banded water snake of the southeastern US, often mistaken for the venomous cottonmouth.

Sabah Pit Viper

Sabah Pit Viper

A green pit viper found in the forests of Sabah in northern Borneo.

Abaco Island Boa

Abaco Island Boa

A population of Bahamian boa specifically associated with the Abaco Islands in the northern Bahamas.

McGregor's Pit Viper

McGregor's Pit Viper

A rare green pit viper restricted to the remote Batanes Islands of the northern Philippines.

Brown's Coral Snake

Brown's Coral Snake

A tricolor coral snake of Pacific-slope forests in southern Mexico and northern Central America.

Guangxi Pit Viper

Guangxi Pit Viper

A stout forest pit viper found in the karst and montane forests of southern China and northern Vietnam.

Palmerston Carpet Python

Palmerston Carpet Python

A locality of the Darwin carpet python subspecies from the Palmerston area near Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory.

Orange-Naped Snake

Orange-Naped Snake

A slender elapid with a bold orange nape patch and black head, widespread across northern and eastern Australia.

Neotropical Water Snake

Neotropical Water Snake

A strongly aquatic colubrid common in still and slow-moving freshwater habitats across northern South America.

Dubois's Sea Snake

A reef-dwelling sea snake of northern Australian waters known for its uniform coloration and potent venom.

Carib Coral Snake

A coral snake of Trinidad and northern Venezuela, marked with bold tricolor rings along its slender body.

Tonkin Pit Viper

Tonkin Pit Viper

A green pit viper native to the Tonkin region of northern Vietnam and adjacent southern China.

Persian Viper

Persian Viper

A rare and localized mountain viper endemic to a small area of the Alborz range in northern Iran.

Black-Ringed Mangrove Snake

A boldly ringed sea snake associated with mangrove-lined coastlines of the northern Bay of Bengal.

Ruschenberger's Tree Boa

Ruschenberger's Tree Boa

A slender, arboreal tree boa of Central America and northern South America closely related to the common tree boa.

Cyclops Green Tree Python

Cyclops Green Tree Python

A locality form of the green tree python from the Cyclops Mountains rainforest reserve near Jayapura in northern Papua.

Mexican Garter Snake

Mexican Garter Snake

A wetland-dependent garter snake of the desert Southwest and Mexico, now rare across much of its northern range.

Texas Blind Snake

Texas Blind Snake

A tiny, worm-like burrowing snake of Texas and northern Mexico, occasionally found in the nests of ants and termites that it feeds on.

Flat-Nosed Pit Viper

A little-known montane pit viper of northern Myanmar and adjacent regions, noted for its flattened snout profile.

Barkly Tableland Death Adder

Barkly Tableland Death Adder

A grassland-dwelling death adder restricted to the black soil plains of the Barkly Tableland in northern Australia.

Dunmall's Snake

A rare, secretive elapid of inland brigalow woodland in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales.