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.
Common Slug-eater
A small, docile African colubrid that feeds exclusively on slugs and snails, completely harmless to humans.
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.
Egg-Eating Snake
A remarkable colubrid with a highly specialized diet consisting entirely of bird eggs, swallowed whole and crushed internally.
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.
Rhombic Egg-eater
A patterned southern African egg-eating snake, closely related to (and often considered the same species complex as) the common egg-eater, marked by bold diamond-shaped dorsal blotches.