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.
Aquatic Coral Snake
An unusually large and semi-aquatic coral snake of the Amazon Basin, notable among elapids for its strongly water-associated lifestyle and fish-heavy diet.
Rough-Scaled Sea Snake
A heavily built sea snake with distinctly rough, keeled scales, notable for possessing unusually large fangs and potent venom among sea snake species.
Trinidad Coral Snake
An island-associated coral snake restricted to Trinidad and nearby coastal Venezuela, patterned in classic red-black-yellow triads.
Butler's Garter Snake
A small garter snake of the Great Lakes region, notable for its short head and worm-hunting habits.
Brazilian Coral Snake
A brightly ringed coral snake of southern South America's grasslands and forests, notable for its bold black-yellow-red banding and secretive lifestyle.
Afro-Asian Sand Snake
A slim, fast-moving diurnal sand snake distributed across arid regions of Africa and Asia, mildly venomous but not medically significant to humans.
Montpellier Snake
A large, fast-moving rear-fanged colubrid of the Mediterranean, notable for its prominent brow ridges and defensive hood display.
Copperbelly Water Snake
A regionally threatened subspecies of the Redbelly Water Snake, named for its vivid orange-red underside, restricted to isolated wetlands of the American Midwest.
Blue Malayan Coral Snake
A striking Southeast Asian elapid with an iridescent blue-black body, a bright red head and tail, and venom notable for producing unusually rapid effects.
Painted Coral Snake
A vividly ringed coral snake of the South American Atlantic Forest, notable for its black snout and tricolor banding pattern.
New Guinea Small-Eyed Snake
A large, potent elapid found in New Guinea, notable for its small eyes and highly variable coloration.
Dog-toothed Cat Snake
A large, boldly patterned nocturnal tree snake of Southeast Asian forests, named for its notably elongated front teeth.
Narrow-headed Garter Snake
A highly aquatic, fish-eating garter snake of clear mountain streams, notable for its unusually narrow head.
Slender-Necked Sea Snake
A slender sea snake with a notably thin neck relative to its body, found in coral reef and coastal waters of the Coral Sea region.
Olive Python
One of Australia's largest snakes, a plain olive-brown python found around rocky gorges and river systems in the continent's arid and tropical north.
Amethystine Python
One of the longest snakes in the world, this iridescent brown python takes its name from the amethyst-like sheen its scales cast in sunlight.
Schlegel's Beaked Blind Snake
One of the largest blind snakes in the world, notable for its hardened, beak-like snout used to dig through hard African soils.
Two-striped Garter Snake
A strongly aquatic garter snake of southern California streams, notable for lacking a middorsal stripe.
Broad-banded Coral Snake
A widespread Central American coral snake known for its notably broad black bands compared to many relatives.
Keel-Bellied Whip Snake
A slender, mildly venomous, arboreal colubrid of Southeast Asian forests, notable for the distinct keeled scales along its belly.
Broad-banded Garter Snake
A striped garter snake variant found near streams and rivers in Texas, notable for its wide dorsal stripe.
Mexican Blackbelly Garter Snake
A semi-aquatic garter snake from the Mexican Plateau notable for its dark, often solid black underside.
Dwarf Mexican Garter Snake
A small-bodied garter snake of the Sierra Madre Occidental in northwestern Mexico, notable for a dark nape marking.
Mitchell's Short-Tailed Snake
A small, dark-headed elapid with a notably short tail, found across dry woodland of southeastern Australia.