Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
Big Bend Black-Headed Snake
A small, reddish-brown desert snake with a dark head cap, found in rocky canyons of the Big Bend region.
Great Plains Rat Snake
A gray-brown rat snake with dark blotches and a distinctive arrow-shaped mark on the head, common in the prairie states.
Saddled Leaf-Nosed Snake
A larger relative of the Spotted Leaf-Nosed Snake bearing bold, saddle-shaped brown blotches along its back.
Black-headed Cat Snake
A slender, reddish-brown cat snake distinguished by its solid black or dark head, found in lowland forests of Southeast Asia.
Mountain Patch-Nosed Snake
A slender striped snake of rocky foothills and mountain canyons, closely related to the Western Patch-Nosed Snake.
Mexican Wandering Garter Snake
A wide-ranging highland garter snake of western Mexico, adaptable to a variety of montane stream and forest habitats.
Southern Shovel-Nosed Snake
A small burrowing elapid from southern and western Australia with a distinctive banded pattern and a shovel-shaped snout for digging through sand.
Leaf-Scaled Sea Snake
A small, rare sea snake restricted to a limited stretch of Western Australian coral reef waters, named for its distinctive leaf-shaped body scales.
Common Smooth-Scaled Water Snake
A small, aquatic colubrid common in the rice paddies, ponds, and waterways of Southeast Asia.
Narrow-Banded Shovel-Nosed Snake
A small burrowing elapid characterized by narrow banding, found in arid interior regions of Australia.
Mexican Alpine Blotched Garter Snake
A high-altitude garter snake from central Mexico's volcanic peaks, marked by a ladder-like blotched pattern rather than clean stripes.
Southern Durango Spotted Garter Snake
A montane garter snake from the pine-oak forests of southern Durango, distinguished by a spotted rather than striped dorsal pattern.
Solomon Islands Small-Eyed Snake
A rare, poorly known elapid endemic to the Solomon Islands, the sole species in its genus.
Black-banded Cat-eyed Snake
A widespread nocturnal colubrid of the Americas with large cat-like eyes and a banded or blotched pattern, common near wetlands.
New Guinea Small-Eyed Snake
A large, potent elapid found in New Guinea, notable for its small eyes and highly variable coloration.
Twin-spotted Rat Snake
A small, slender rat snake from China marked with paired dark spots along its back, well suited to rocky and hilly terrain.
Common Mud Snake Malayan
A small, common freshwater mud snake found throughout Southeast Asia, frequently seen in rice paddies and slow-moving waters.
Cloudy Snail-eating Snake
A slender, big-eyed nocturnal snake specialized for extracting snails and slugs from their shells, found in humid Neotropical forests.
Broad-banded Garter Snake
A striped garter snake variant found near streams and rivers in Texas, notable for its wide dorsal stripe.
Olive-Headed Sea Snake
A moderately large sea snake with an olive-toned head and faint banding, found in the estuarine and coastal waters of northern Australia.
Northern Dwarf Crowned Snake
A small, rarely observed crowned snake restricted to the wet tropics of far north Queensland, distinguished by its pale head marking.
Dwarf Mexican Garter Snake
A small-bodied garter snake of the Sierra Madre Occidental in northwestern Mexico, notable for a dark nape marking.
Sind Awl-Headed Snake
A small, secretive burrowing colubrid of the arid Indus region, named for its narrow, pointed, awl-shaped snout adapted for pushing through sand.
Small-spotted Coral Snake
A Mexican coral snake with tricolor banding along the Pacific lowlands.