Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
Yellow-blotched Palm Pit Viper
A green arboreal pit viper of Guatemalan and Chiapan cloud forests, marked with pale yellow blotches along its back.
Sri Lankan Hump-Nosed Pit Viper
A small terrestrial pit viper of Sri Lanka and southern India, historically underestimated in medical significance despite its wide distribution.
Fan Si Pan Horned Pit Viper
A stout mountain pit viper with small hornlike scales above the eyes, found in high-elevation forests of the Fan Si Pan region.
Eyelash Viper
A small, arboreal pit viper famous for the raised scales above its eyes and its wide range of color morphs.
Hundred-Pace Viper
A distinctively patterned pit viper of southern China and Taiwan, popularly named for folklore about a hundred paces.
Chinese Green Tree Viper
A slender, arboreal green pit viper common across southern China, Taiwan, and northern Vietnam, frequently encountered in forests and cultivated areas.
Sichuan Lancehead
A terrestrial pit viper native to Sichuan Province, China, part of the Protobothrops group of Asian lanceheads.
Common Lancehead
The most widespread lancehead of the Amazon Basin, found across tropical South America.
Japanese Mamushi
A small pit viper widespread across Japan.
Urutu
A heavy-bodied pit viper of grasslands and marshes in southern South America, known for its distinctive alternating dark blotches.
Amazon False Fer-de-lance
A viper-mimicking colubrid of the Amazon that flattens its head into a triangular shape, resembling a pit viper.
Ussuri Mamushi
A small, cold-tolerant pit viper of the Russian Far East and northeastern Asia.
Habu
A large pit viper endemic to Japan's Ryukyu Islands.
Short-Tailed Mamushi
A short, stout pit viper closely related to the Japanese mamushi, found across East Asia.
Rock Mamushi
A rock-dwelling pit viper native to the Korean Peninsula, closely resembling other regional mamushis.
Golden Lancehead
A critically endangered island-endemic pit viper found only on a single Brazilian island, adapted to hunting birds.
False Fer-de-lance
A colubrid widely known for resembling fer-de-lance pit vipers through dramatic head-flattening displays.
Terciopelo
A large pit viper found across Central America.
Brazilian Lancehead
A medium to large lancehead pit viper of central Brazil's savanna.
South American Bushmaster
The longest viper in the Americas, a massive pit viper of Amazonian rainforest with a distinctive spined tail.
Bushmaster
The longest viper in the Americas and the largest pit viper in the world, an elusive forest dweller of Central and South America.
Fer-de-lance
A large, fast-moving pit viper found across much of Central America.
Tokara Habu
A small island endemic pit viper restricted to Japan's Tokara island chain.
Jararacussu
One of the largest South American lanceheads, a heavy-bodied forest pit viper.