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.
Mitchell's Short-Tailed Snake
A small, dark-headed elapid with a notably short tail, found across dry woodland of southeastern Australia.
White-Bellied Mangrove Snake
A stocky, mildly aquatic mangrove-dwelling snake specialized in feeding on soft-shelled crabs.
Guyana Blackback Coral Snake
A small coral snake of northern South America and southern Central America, patterned in tricolor rings with narrow pale bands.
Yellow-bellied Puffing Snake
One of South America's largest colubrid snakes, known for inflating its neck and hissing loudly when threatened, with a bright yellow underside.
Neotropical Water Snake
A strongly aquatic colubrid common in still and slow-moving freshwater habitats across northern South America.
Graham's Crayfish Snake
A slender, striped aquatic snake of the central U.S. plains and prairies that feeds heavily on crayfish.
Crowned Leaf-Nosed Snake
A small, sand-colored desert colubrid with an upturned, shovel-like snout adapted for burrowing through loose desert sand.
Steindachner's Coral Snake
An Andean foothill coral snake named for Austrian naturalist Franz Steindachner, showing bold tricolor rings.
Western Shovelnose Snake
A small, boldly banded desert colubrid with a countersunk lower jaw and flattened snout adapted for swimming through loose desert sand.
Big Bend Patch-Nosed Snake
A desert colubrid with an enlarged, upturned rostral scale used for digging, marked by a bold pale vertebral stripe.
Nilgiri Shieldtail Snake
A montane burrowing snake endemic to the Nilgiri Hills of southern India, adapted to cool, high-elevation forest soils.
Black-headed Coral Snake
One of the most widespread and frequently recorded coral snakes of Central America, with a solid black head and tricolor banded body.
Black-Headed Dwarf Snake
A small, secretive colubrid distinguished by its dark head cap, found in rocky and arid terrain across parts of the Middle East.
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.
Aesculapian False Coral Snake
A mildly venomous South American colubrid that mimics true coral snakes with bold red, black, and white banding.
Solomon Islands Small-Eyed Snake
A rare, poorly known elapid endemic to the Solomon Islands, the sole species in its genus.
Narrow-Banded Shovel-Nosed Snake
A small burrowing elapid characterized by narrow banding, found in arid interior regions of Australia.
Common Smooth-Scaled Water Snake
A small, mildly venomous, aquatic colubrid common in the rice paddies, ponds, and waterways of Southeast Asia.
Ijima's Turtle-Headed Sea Snake
A docile, egg-eating sea snake from the Ryukyu Islands with a blunt, turtle-like head and reduced venom apparatus.
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.
Black-necked Garter Snake
A garter snake of rocky canyon streams, easily identified by bold black neck blotches.
Western Patch-Nosed Snake
A slender, fast-moving desert snake named for the enlarged, shield-like scale covering the tip of its snout.
Boulenger's Garter Snake
A small, secretive African elapid related to the garter snakes group, with a plain body and burrowing habits.
Sumichrast's Garter Snake
A Mexican highland garter snake named for the naturalist Francois Sumichrast, found near streams and wet meadows.