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.
Twin-Spotted Wolf Snake
A small, harmless nocturnal colubrid with paired dark spots and enlarged front teeth resembling those of venomous species.
Dog-toothed Cat Snake
A large, boldly patterned nocturnal tree snake of Southeast Asian forests, named for its notably elongated front teeth.
Spotted Leaf-Nosed Snake
A small nocturnal desert snake named for its enlarged, leaf-shaped rostral scale used to dig for buried lizard eggs.
Afro-Asian Sand Snake
A slim, fast-moving diurnal sand snake distributed across arid regions of Africa and Asia, mildly venomous but not medically significant to humans.
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 highly venomous 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, mildly venomous colubrid named for its vertical, cat-like pupils.
Mexican Wandering Garter Snake
A wide-ranging highland garter snake of western Mexico, adaptable to a variety of montane stream and forest habitats.
Slender-Necked Sea Snake
A slender sea snake with a notably thin neck relative to its body, found in coral reef and coastal waters of the Coral Sea region.
Tamaulipan Montane Garter Snake
A rare, range-restricted garter snake known only from a small mountainous area of Tamaulipas, Mexico.
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.
Dwarf Mexican Garter Snake
A small-bodied garter snake of the Sierra Madre Occidental in northwestern Mexico, notable for a dark nape marking.
Lake Taal Sea Snake
A remarkable freshwater sea snake found only in Lake Taal, a volcanic crater lake in the Philippines with no connection to the ocean.
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.
Broad-banded Garter Snake
A striped garter snake variant found near streams and rivers in Texas, notable for its wide dorsal stripe.
Chiapas Highland Garter Snake
A small, striped garter snake endemic to the cool highland streams and cloud forests of Chiapas, Mexico, and neighboring Guatemala.
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.
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.
Desert Cobra
A glossy black, primarily nocturnal elapid found in the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East, considered venomous and potentially dangerous to humans.
Blood Python
A stout, non-venomous python of Southeast Asia known for its short, heavy build and rich reddish or blood-colored patterning.
Egyptian Cobra
A large, highly venomous cobra widespread across Africa, historically significant in ancient Egyptian culture and iconography.
Redtail Bamboo Pit Viper
A slender green bamboo pit viper of South and Southeast Asia, named for the reddish tail found in many individuals.