Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
Mangshan Pit Viper
A rare and large pit viper endemic to a single mountain region in China, notable for its size and pale, mossy coloration.
Yunnan Pit Viper
A green pit viper native to Yunnan Province in southern China and adjacent regions.
Desert Horned Viper
An iconic desert viper of the Sahara and Arabian Peninsula, easily recognized by the small hornlike scales often present above its eyes.
Bamboo Pit Viper
A slender green pit viper found in forests of peninsular India, closely associated with bamboo thickets and dense foliage.
Mangrove Pit Viper
A slender green pit viper specialized for life along mangrove coastlines and tidal forests across South and Southeast Asia.
Common Mock Viper
A small, viper-mimicking colubrid from Asian forests known for its stout body and viper-like posture.
Nepal Pit Viper
A stocky mountain pit viper of the Himalayan region, tolerant of cool high-altitude conditions.
False Horned Viper
A desert viper of the Middle East that mimics true horned vipers with supraocular scale projections, but belongs to a distinct genus.
Radde's Mountain Viper
A heavy-bodied highland viper of the Caucasus and eastern Anatolia, named after the naturalist Gustav Radde, and closely tied to the same species complex as the Armenian viper.
Malabar Pit Viper
A highly variable, arboreal pit viper endemic to the biodiverse Western Ghats of India.
Beautiful Pit Viper
A striking green pit viper with a red-bordered lateral stripe found in southern Thailand.
Jerdon's Pit Viper
A high-altitude pit viper of the eastern Himalayas and adjacent hill country, marked with bold black and yellow banding.
Elegant Pit Viper
A slender, boldly patterned island pit viper from the Ryukyu archipelago of Japan.
Wagler's Pit Viper
A strikingly patterned arboreal pit viper famous for congregating in large numbers at temples in Malaysia.
Nicobar Pit Viper
A green pit viper endemic to the Nicobar Islands, closely related to the Andaman pit viper.
Arabian Horned Viper
A sand-dwelling desert viper of the Arabian Peninsula, closely resembling the African Horned Viper but occupying a distinct eastern range.
Saw-Scaled Viper
A small viper found across the Middle East and South Asia, notable for producing a distinctive rasping sound by rubbing its scales together.
Kanburian Pit Viper
A rare, range-restricted green pit viper known primarily from the Kanchanaburi region of western Thailand.
Broadley's Bush Viper
A small, dark-colored arboreal viper of Central African rainforest, named in honor of herpetologist Donald Broadley.
Arunachal Pit Viper
A green pit viper endemic to Arunachal Pradesh, part of a wave of newly described pit viper species from the eastern Himalayan foothills.
Kenyan Horned Bush Viper
A little-known arboreal bush viper of Cameroon, distinguished by its enlarged subocular scales and rough, keeled body scalation.
East African Gaboon Viper
A large, elaborately patterned viper found in East and Central African rainforests, closely related to the West African Gaboon Viper.
Guatemalan Palm Pit Viper
An arboreal green pit viper of Central American highland forests, closely related to other palm pit vipers of the region.
Chasen's Mountain Pit Viper
A small, stout, terrestrial mountain pit viper endemic to the highland forests of Borneo.