Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
Cape Centipede-Eater
A small, secretive southern African snake that specializes in hunting centipedes.
Cape Cobra
A cobra notable for its variable yellow, brown, or speckled coloration across southern Africa's arid regions.
Calabar Boa
A cylindrical, burrowing boa-like snake from West and Central Africa with a distinctive blunt tail used to confuse predators.
Cape File Snake
A distinctive African colubrid with unusually rough, file-like body scales and a specialized diet that includes other snakes.
Cape Grass Snake
A common southern African grass snake with a diamond-patterned back.
Cape Thread Snake
A tiny, glossy burrowing thread snake of southern Africa that lives almost entirely underground, feeding on ants and termites.
Cape Gopher Snake
A regionally restricted gopher snake subspecies endemic to the arid Cape region of Baja California Sur.
Cape Tiger Snake
A regional form of tiger snake found on offshore islands and coastal areas, often smaller-bodied than mainland populations.
Cape Wolf Snake
A small, nocturnal African colubrid named for its enlarged, recurved front teeth used to grip smooth-scaled reptile prey such as lizards and other snakes.
Cape House Snake
A common constrictor found throughout southern Africa, frequently encountered near human settlements where it hunts rodents.
Common Mole Snake
A large, powerfully built African snake specialized for hunting burrowing rodents, common across a wide range of southern African habitats.
Red Adder
A recently described small viper with reddish coloration, endemic to mountain ranges of South Africa's Cape region.
Plain Mountain Adder
A subtly patterned, rarely seen small viper endemic to high-altitude grasslands of South Africa's Eastern Cape.