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.
Eastern Indigo Snake
The longest native snake in North America, a glossy blue-black giant known for its docile nature and association with gopher tortoise burrows.
Common Vine Snake
A slender, twig-mimicking African tree snake with exceptional camouflage and keyhole-shaped pupils, possessing venom that, though rear-fanged, can be medically significant.
Common Mole Snake
A large, powerfully built, non-venomous African snake specialized for hunting burrowing rodents, common across a wide range of southern African habitats.
Common Trinket Snake
A slender, attractively patterned colubrid widespread across the Indian subcontinent, sometimes confused with more dangerous species due to superficial similarities.
Common Bridal Snake
A small, slender nocturnal colubrid from South Asia with a delicate banded pattern.
Common Wolf Snake
A slender, nocturnal Asian colubrid often confused with venomous kraits due to similar banding, but harmless to humans.
Common Kukri Snake
A small, harmless banded colubrid named for its curved, kukri-knife-shaped rear teeth used to slit open reptile eggs.
Common Cat Snake
A slender, patterned nocturnal snake found across the Indian subcontinent, often mistaken for a young viper due to its triangular head and vertical pupils.
Eastern Small-Eyed Snake
A small, glossy black nocturnal elapid widespread along the eastern Australian coast and ranges.
Common Purple-glossed Snake
A glossy, burrowing African snake with an iridescent purplish sheen, feeding largely on other snakes and reptiles beneath the soil surface.
Common Egg-Eating Snake
A slender African colubrid famed for a diet consisting almost entirely of bird eggs, which it swallows whole and crushes internally.
Eastern Kingsnake
A glossy black snake marked with narrow chain-like yellow or white bands, famed for preying on venomous snakes.
Common Mud Snake Malayan
A small, common freshwater mud snake found throughout Southeast Asia, frequently seen in rice paddies and slow-moving waters.
Eastern Copperhead
A copper-colored pit viper common across the eastern and central United States, known for its hourglass-shaped bands.
Common Smooth-Scaled Water Snake
A small, mildly venomous, aquatic colubrid common in the rice paddies, ponds, and waterways of Southeast Asia.
Common Slug-eater
A small, docile African colubrid that feeds exclusively on slugs and snails, completely harmless to humans.
Common Egg-eater
A remarkable African colubrid that feeds exclusively on bird eggs, using specialized vertebral spines in its throat to crack shells after swallowing them whole.
Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake
The largest venomous snake in North America, a heavy-bodied rattlesnake of southeastern pine forests and coastal habitats.
Common Bronzeback
A slender, fast-moving, day-active tree snake with a bronze-toned back, common across gardens and forest edges of the Indian subcontinent.
Common Adder
A small, widespread viper found across Europe and into northern Asia, notable for having the largest geographic range of any land snake species.
Eastern Green Mamba
A slender, bright green, highly arboreal mamba of coastal East African forests, well camouflaged among foliage and known for its potent venom.
Common Saw-Scaled Viper
One of the 'Big Four' medically important snakes of India, small in size but responsible for numerous serious snakebite cases.
Crowned Snake
The largest of the crowned snakes, a secretive nocturnal elapid of eastern Australian forests, named for its pale head marking.
Milk Snake
A boldly banded, harmless colubrid known for mimicking the warning colors of venomous coral snakes across much of its range.