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.
Awl-Headed Snake
A small desert colubrid with a pointed, awl-like snout used for burrowing, closely related to the crowned leaf-nosed snake and adapted to sandy habitats.
Beaked Sea Snake
A highly venomous, fully aquatic sea snake often entangled in fishing nets, considered responsible for many sea snake bite incidents.
Green Vine Snake
A slender, bright green colubrid of the Indian subcontinent with an elongated pointed snout, blending seamlessly into foliage and rarely posing danger to humans.
Kofiau Green Tree Python
A rare island locality of the green tree python from Kofiau Island in the Raja Ampat archipelago, notable for a relatively small, isolated population.
Salazar's Pit Viper
A recently described green pit viper from northeastern India, popularly noted for being named after a fictional Harry Potter character.
Flat-Nosed Pit Viper
A little-known montane pit viper of northern Myanmar and adjacent regions, noted for its flattened snout profile.
Barbados Threadsnake
One of the smallest known snake species in the world, endemic to the small Caribbean island of Barbados and rediscovered in the early 2000s.
Southern Pacific Rattlesnake
A common rattlesnake of coastal and inland southern California, noted for its variable venom and dark diamond blotches.
Irian Jaya Carpet Python
A New Guinea locality form of carpet python noted for its striking, high-contrast blotched pattern and relatively robust build.
Spotted Skaapsteker
A slender, patterned southern African snake whose name derives from a folk belief linking it to livestock, though it is not dangerous to sheep or people.
Yellow Anaconda
A large, semi-aquatic constrictor of South American wetlands, smaller than its relative the green anaconda but still among the heaviest snakes in the Americas.
Kayaudi Dwarf Reticulated Python
A dwarf reticulated python population endemic to the small island of Kayuadi in Indonesia, notably reduced in size.
Habu
A large, aggressive pit viper endemic to Japan's Ryukyu Islands, notorious as the region's most medically significant snake.
Schokari Sand Racer
A slender, fast-moving desert racer common across North Africa and the Middle East, notable for its speed and daytime hunting habits.
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.
Pygmy Copperhead
The smallest of the copperhead species, restricted to a limited range in South Australia including Kangaroo Island.
Red-necked Keelback
A rear-fanged Asian colubrid notable for the bright red-orange patch on its neck and genuinely potent venom.
Mexican Black Kingsnake
A striking, almost entirely jet-black kingsnake from northwestern Mexico, notable for its uniform glossy appearance.
Milos Viper
A rare, island-endemic viper found only on Milos and a few nearby Cycladic islands in Greece, notable for its restricted range and conservation concern.
Lowland Copperhead
A cold-tolerant Australian elapid found in wetlands and cool temperate regions of the southeast, notable for its resilience in colder climates compared to most snakes.
Ingram's Brown Snake
A large tropical brown snake species from northern Australia, closely related to other Pseudonaja species and considered medically significant.
West African Egg-eater
A harmless, egg-specialist snake from West and Central African forests, notable for its ability to swallow eggs many times the width of its head.
Brahminy Blind Snake
A tiny, worm-like blind snake and the only known snake species that reproduces entirely by parthenogenesis, spreading globally in nursery soil.
Large Shieldtail Snake
One of the larger species within the shieldtail snake family, endemic to the moist forests of India's Western Ghats.