Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
Spotted Leaf-Nosed Snake
A small nocturnal desert snake named for its enlarged, leaf-shaped rostral scale used to dig for buried lizard eggs.
Mexican Black-Headed Snake
A tiny, secretive snake with a glossy tan body and a distinct black cap over the head and neck.
Central American Indigo Snake
A large, powerful colubrid related to the eastern indigo snake, with a glossy dark tail and lighter forebody.
Crowned Leaf-Nosed Snake
A small, sand-colored desert colubrid with an upturned, shovel-like snout adapted for burrowing through loose desert sand.
Plain-bellied Water Snake
A stout water snake with a plain, unpatterned belly ranging from yellow to orange, and a mostly uniform dorsal color as an adult.
Many-spotted Cat Snake
A slender, densely spotted nocturnal tree snake found across Southeast Asian forests and gardens.
Twin-Spotted Wolf Snake
A small nocturnal colubrid with paired dark spots and enlarged front teeth.
Afro-Asian Sand Snake
A slim, fast-moving diurnal sand snake distributed across arid regions of Africa and Asia.
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.
Small-Headed Sea Snake
A slender sea snake with a strikingly tiny head and narrow forebody widening toward the rear, found in shallow coastal waters across the Indo-Pacific.
Hook-Nosed Sea Snake
A sea snake found in murky coastal and estuarine waters across the Indo-Pacific, notable for its distinctive hooked snout.
Northern Cat-eyed Snake
A nocturnal colubrid named for its vertical, cat-like pupils.
Japanese Four-lined Rat Snake
A common Japanese rat snake marked with four dark longitudinal stripes running the length of its body, frequently seen in fields and gardens.
Big Bend Patch-Nosed Snake
A desert colubrid with an enlarged, upturned rostral scale used for digging, marked by a bold pale vertebral stripe.
Trans-Pecos Black-Headed Snake
One of the largest black-headed snakes, a slender tan species with a bold black hood found in West Texas canyon country.
Ijima's Turtle-Headed Sea Snake
An egg-eating sea snake from the Ryukyu Islands with a blunt, turtle-like head.
Western Yellow-bellied Sand Snake
A slender, arid-adapted sand snake of southwestern Africa distinguished by its bright yellow underside and swift diurnal foraging.
Duberria Lutrix
A small African colubrid known scientifically as Duberria lutrix, specialized in eating slugs and snails.
Eastern Kingsnake
A glossy black snake marked with narrow chain-like yellow or white bands, famed for preying on other snakes.
Mussurana
A large, snake-eating colubrid famed for its dramatic ontogenetic color change.
Green Anaconda
One of the world's heaviest snakes, a massive semi-aquatic constrictor of South American rivers and wetlands.
European Adder
The only snake native to much of the British Isles, with an enormous range spanning from western Europe to the Russian Far East, including areas within the Arctic Circle.
Northern Green Anaconda
One of the world's largest and heaviest snakes, this massive semi-aquatic constrictor dominates the rivers and wetlands of the Amazon and Orinoco basins.
Kingsnake
A glossy constrictor famous for preying on other snakes, including pit vipers.