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.
Olive Sea Snake
A common and highly venomous sea snake of Indo-Pacific coral reefs, known for its curious behavior toward divers and olive-brown coloration.
Spotted Harlequin Snake
A small, brightly patterned southern African elapid with a slender body and boldly spotted coloration, mimicking more dangerous coral snake relatives.
Peters' Thread Snake
A tiny, worm-like burrowing snake from Africa with smooth, glossy scales and no functional venom delivery to humans.
Ground Snake Sonoran
A small, highly variable colubrid of the arid American Southwest, ranging from plain to boldly banded in color pattern across its range.
King Brown Snake
One of Australia's largest venomous snakes, a robust and widespread elapid found across much of the continent's interior.
Dwarf Beaked Snake
A tiny, patterned nocturnal snake of arid southern Africa, known for its spotted body and slightly upturned snout.
Coin-Marked Snake
A slender, fast-moving colubrid of the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, named for the rounded, coin-like dark blotches along its back.
Brown Vine Snake
A slender, brown-colored vine snake with a pointed snout, native to the Western Ghats, closely related to the more familiar green vine snakes.
Eastern Milk Snake
A boldly patterned, non-venomous snake often mistaken for a coral snake or copperhead due to its reddish-brown blotched pattern.
Florida Pine Snake
A large, pale, burrowing constrictor of Florida's sandhills, associated closely with gopher tortoise burrows.
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.
Uruguayan Coral Snake
A small coral snake of the temperate grasslands and forests of Uruguay and neighboring regions.
Brahminy Blind Snake
A tiny, worm-like blind snake and the only known snake species that reproduces entirely by parthenogenesis, spreading globally in nursery soil.
Yellowbelly Water Snake
A plain, dark-backed water snake subspecies with a pale yellow belly, common in bottomland wetlands of the Mississippi Valley and Gulf states.
Northwestern Garter Snake
A small, colorful, and highly variable garter snake common in gardens and forests of the Pacific Northwest.
Persian Whip Snake
A slender, fast-moving colubrid found across Iran and neighboring regions, typically marked with a subtle striped pattern and a pale yellowish underside.
Algerian Whip Snake
A slender, fast-moving colubrid native to the Maghreb region of North Africa, closely related to the horseshoe whip snake.
Little Whip Snake
One of Australia's smallest snakes, a slender nocturnal elapid found in grassland and woodland of the southeast.
Rough Green Snake
A slender, bright green colubrid with keeled scales, common in shrubs and vegetation near water across the southeastern US.
Balkan Whip Snake
A slender, fast-moving colubrid common across the Balkans, known for its alert temperament and rapid, jerky movements.
Pale-Headed Snake
An arboreal elapid with a pale head, found in woodlands of eastern Australia and often sheltering under loose tree bark.
Two-coloured Snake
A slender, burrowing African snake with a distinctive two-toned body pattern and a pointed, wedge-shaped snout adapted for digging.
Green Bush Snake
A slender, bright green, non-venomous African tree snake frequently seen in gardens and hedges, harmless to humans.
Redbelly Water Snake
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.