Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
Ladder Snake
A large, robust Iberian colubrid named for the ladder-like pattern seen in juveniles, which fades into two dark dorsal stripes in adults.
Coral Snake
A brightly ringed elapid with red, yellow, and black bands, known for the order in which its bands touch.
Sea Snake
A fully marine elapid adapted for life at sea, with a paddle-like tail and no need to return to land.
Diadem Snake
A robust desert colubrid with striking patterned coloration, found across arid regions from North Africa to South Asia.
Mulga Snake
One of Australia's largest snakes, the Mulga Snake is a robust, widespread elapid of arid and semi-arid country.
Leopard Snake
A strikingly patterned colubrid from southern Europe often regarded as one of the continent's most beautiful snakes.
Flying Snake
A slender tree-dwelling colubrid capable of gliding between trees by flattening its body into a concave, wing-like shape.
Neckband Snake
A small, slender colubrid known for a banded pattern that abruptly changes partway down the body, and a tail that can detach.
Curl Snake
A small, dull-colored elapid of Australia's arid interior known for curling into a tight coil when threatened.
Emerald Snake
A vividly emerald-green African forest snake known for its keeled scales and glossy iridescence.
Ornamental Snake
A small, patterned nocturnal elapid restricted to the Brigalow Belt of central Queensland, listed as vulnerable due to habitat loss.
Water Snake
A heavy-bodied, aquatic colubrid frequently mistaken for cottonmouths.
Viperine Snake
An aquatic colubrid from southwestern Europe and North Africa whose zigzag pattern resembles that of true vipers.
Bark Snake
A small, cryptically colored African colubrid that lives on tree bark and rock surfaces.
Vine Snake
An extremely slender, twig-like colubrid that camouflages among vines and branches, striking rapidly at lizard prey.
Corn Snake
A slender, brightly patterned North American rat snake, among the most popular and recognizable snakes.
Fiji Snake
A rare, burrowing elapid endemic to Viti Levu in Fiji, and the only terrestrial elapid native to the islands.
Montpellier Snake
A large, fast-moving colubrid of the Mediterranean, notable for its prominent brow ridges and hood display.
Wagler's Snake
A nocturnal, vertical-pupiled colubrid from Mexico and Central America closely related to the widespread cat-eyed snakes.
Dice Snake
A highly aquatic European colubrid named for its checkerboard-like dorsal pattern, closely tied to rivers, lakes, and coastal wetlands.
Blotched Snake
A large, powerfully built ratsnake of the Caucasus and steppe regions, patterned with bold dark blotches along a pale body.
Dwyer's Snake
A small, dark-headed elapid found in rocky woodland habitats of eastern Australia.
Mangrove Snake
A large, glossy black colubrid ringed with bright yellow bands, common in Southeast Asian wetlands and mangroves.
Smooth Snake
A secretive, smooth-scaled European colubrid often mistaken for a viper, notable for constricting prey including other reptiles.