Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
Striped Keelback
A common, slender colubrid with pale stripes along the back, frequently found near water and farmland across South Asia.
Florida Cottonmouth
A large, semi-aquatic pit viper of Florida wetlands, often confused with water snakes.
Lesser Black Whipsnake
A slender, fast-moving diurnal elapid of tropical northern Australia, smaller than its close relative the Greater Black Whipsnake.
Greater Black Whipsnake
A large, fast-moving, alert diurnal elapid of northern Australia and New Guinea, known for its speed and keen eyesight.
Queen Snake
A slender, semi-aquatic snake of clean, rocky streams that feeds almost exclusively on freshly molted crayfish.
Dwarf Sea Snake
A tiny, slender sea snake with an unusually small head, found in muddy coastal waters of the Gulf of Thailand.
Dusky Sea Snake
A small, dark-colored sea snake with a restricted range in Western Australian reef waters, of conservation concern due to sharp historical population declines.
Bombay Sea Snake
A regionally documented sea snake of the western Indian coast, associated with the shallow waters of the Arabian Sea near Mumbai.
Slender Sea Snake
A slim-bodied sea snake found in tropical Indo-Pacific waters, with a tiny head and greatly elongated, thin forebody.
Striped Sea Snake
A banded sea snake found in muddy coastal and estuarine waters across the Indo-Pacific, notable for its bold dark crossbands.
Ornate Sea Snake
A moderately robust sea snake with variable, often diamond-shaped dorsal markings, found across coral reef and coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific.
Kirtland's Snake
A small, secretive wetland snake with a reddish belly marked by bold black spots, now rare across much of its midwestern range.
Glossy Crayfish Snake
A glossy, dark-bodied wetland snake of the southeastern coastal plain that specializes in eating crayfish.
Brooke's Sea Snake
A sea snake named for the historic 'White Rajahs' of Sarawak, found in coastal waters around Borneo and neighboring Southeast Asian regions.
Estuarine Sea Snake
A sea snake specialized for life in murky estuarine and river-mouth waters across the Indo-West Pacific, tolerant of reduced salinity.
Fine-Spined Sea Snake
A stout, boldly banded sea snake common in muddy coastal waters and a frequent bycatch species of trawl fisheries across the Indo-Pacific.
Brown-Lined Sea Snake
A slender sea snake with fine brown longitudinal striping over a pale body, native to shallow coastal waters of the Gulf of Thailand region.
Large-Headed Sea Snake
A robust sea snake with a disproportionately broad head, found in muddy coastal waters of the Gulf of Thailand and surrounding seas.
Mosaic Sea Snake
A slender, brightly patterned sea snake with a mosaic-like arrangement of dark blotches, found in shallow estuarine and coastal waters of Asia.
Persian Gulf Sea Snake
A moderately sized, banded sea snake commonly found in the shallow waters of the Persian Gulf and surrounding Arabian Sea coastlines.
Spine-Bellied Sea Snake
A stout, small-headed sea snake with distinctly keeled belly scales, common in shallow tropical and subtropical waters and frequently caught as bycatch by trawlers.
Kloss's Sea Snake
A small, banded sea snake found in coastal waters of the Gulf of Thailand region, named after British naturalist Cecil Boden Kloss.
Elegant Sea Snake
A large, robust sea snake native to Australian waters, patterned with broad dark bands that fade with age, often found in reef and estuarine habitats.
Chinese Sea Snake
One of the larger and more widely distributed true sea snakes, recognizable by its bold black and yellow-green banding, ranging across coastal Asian waters.