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.

Pale Milk Snake

A pale, muted milk snake subspecies from the central Great Plains, with washed-out banding compared to more vividly colored relatives.

A small, secretive African elapid related to the garter snakes group, with a plain body and burrowing habits.

A plain, dark-backed water snake subspecies with a pale yellow belly, common in bottomland wetlands of the Mississippi Valley and Gulf states.

A heavy-bodied water snake with a plain dark back and a bright reddish-orange belly, common along ponds and swamps of the American South.

A small, highly variable colubrid of the arid American Southwest, ranging from plain to boldly banded in color pattern across its range.

A small, plain-colored, smooth-scaled snake found under forest debris across a broad swath of the eastern U.S.

A small, highly variable desert snake that may be striped, banded, or plain depending on the population.

A small, glossy black wetland snake with a bright red-orange belly, found in dense marsh vegetation of the southeastern coastal plain.

One of Australia's largest snakes, a plain olive-brown python found around rocky gorges and river systems in the continent's arid and tropical north.

A harmless, plain brown egg-specialist snake widespread in southern Africa, capable of swallowing bird eggs whole despite its small head.