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.
Hooded Malpolon
A large, fast rear-fanged snake of the western Mediterranean known for its hood-like defensive display, closely related to the Eastern Montpellier snake.
Western Groundsnake
A small, highly variable desert snake that may be striped, banded, or plain depending on the population.
Leopard Snake
A strikingly patterned, harmless colubrid from southern Europe often regarded as one of the continent's most beautiful snakes.
Elegant Bronzeback
A vividly colored, slender tree snake of Southeast Asian rainforests, known for its metallic bronze back and striking blue-and-black flanks.
Bull Snake
A large, powerful colubrid famous for its loud hissing bluff display, often mistaken for a rattlesnake.
Moila Snake
A robust, fast-moving desert snake of North Africa and Arabia, known as the 'false cobra' for its hood-flattening threat display.
Machete Savane
A large, strikingly patterned black-and-yellow colubrid found from Mexico to Argentina, known locally as the Machete Savane and famed for its speed and bold temperament.
Mud Snake
A glossy black semi-aquatic snake with a vivid red-and-black checkered belly, often called the 'hoop snake' or 'stinging snake' in folklore.
Bombay Sea Snake
A regionally documented sea snake of the western Indian coast, associated with the shallow waters of the Arabian Sea near Mumbai.
Black Swampsnake
A small, glossy black wetland snake with a bright red-orange belly, found in dense marsh vegetation of the southeastern coastal plain.
Gopher Snake
A large, powerfully built colubrid often mistaken for a rattlesnake due to its defensive hissing and tail-vibrating display.
Blotched Snake
A large, powerfully built ratsnake of the Caucasus and steppe regions, patterned with bold dark blotches along a pale body.
Caspian Whip Snake
One of Europe's largest snakes, a powerful and fast-moving colubrid found across the Balkans, Caucasus, and into Western Asia.
Rainbow Snake
A glossy, iridescent black snake with three bright red or pink stripes running the length of its body, closely tied to freshwater eel populations.
Painted Coral Snake
A vividly ringed coral snake of the South American Atlantic Forest, notable for its black snout and tricolor banding pattern.
Racer
A slender, fast-moving, sharp-eyed snake known for its speed and alert temperament.
Marbled Sea Snake
A small sea snake with reduced fangs and greatly diminished venom, specialized for feeding on fish eggs rather than active prey, making it functionally harmless to humans.
Wall's Sea Snake
A little-known sea snake from the northern Indian Ocean, named after herpetologist Frank Wall who described many South Asian reptiles.
Striped Harlequin Snake
A small, striped southern African elapid closely related to the spotted harlequin snake, distinguished by longitudinal stripes rather than spots.
Blue Coral Snake
A strikingly beautiful elapid with an iridescent blue-black body, red head and tail, and one of the most potent venoms among Asian elapids.
Dwarf Pipe Snake
A tiny, rarely seen fossorial snake from Southeast Asia representing one of the most poorly known snake families in the world.
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.
Pacific Gopher Snake
A large, heavy-bodied colubrid of the Pacific coast known for its loud hiss and defensive tail-vibrating display that often leads to mistaken identity as a rattlesnake.
Jerdon's Sea Snake
A small, lesser-known sea snake found in the coastal waters of South and Southeast Asia, distinguished by its small size and relatively uniform coloration.