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.
Banded Sand Snake
A tiny, brightly banded desert colubrid built for burrowing through loose sand, closely resembling the shovelnose snakes it shares habitat with.
Keeled Rat Snake
A very large, fast-moving rat snake from Southeast Asian rainforests, distinguished by strongly keeled dorsal scales that give it a rough texture.
Flowerpot Snake
The world's most widely distributed snake species, a tiny worm-like blind snake spread globally through the potted plant trade.
Cape Grass Snake
A common southern African grass snake with a diamond-patterned back, mildly venomous but not dangerous to humans.
Large Whip Snake
One of Europe's largest snakes, a fast and powerfully built whip snake found across the Balkans and around the Black Sea region.
Four-Lined Snake
One of Europe's largest snakes, named for the four dark longitudinal stripes running along its body in adults.
Spurred Sand Snake
A slender, fast-moving, diurnal sand snake widespread across Africa, known for its active daytime foraging and mild rear-fanged venom.
Stokes's Sea Snake
One of the largest and most robust sea snakes, with a thick body and disproportionately small head adapted for feeding on catfish and other spiny prey.
Pine Woods Snake
A small, secretive, yellowish-brown snake of pine flatwoods and hammocks in the southeastern coastal plain.
Choco Coral Snake
A tricolor coral snake of the biodiverse Choco rainforest region on Colombia's Pacific coast.
Black Milk Snake
A milk snake subspecies notable for becoming almost entirely glossy black as it matures, losing its juvenile banded pattern.
Tentacled Snake
A fully aquatic Southeast Asian snake with two unique fleshy tentacles on its snout used to detect fish.
Jasper Cat Snake
A slender cat snake with a marbled, jasper-like pattern, found in the lowland forests of Southeast Asia.
Black Pine Snake
A rare, uniformly dark subspecies of pine snake found in the longleaf pine forests of the Gulf Coast states.
Black File Snake
A small, dark, heavily keeled fossorial snake from East Asian forests, named for the rasp-like texture of its scales.
Black Whip Snake
A large, fast, and powerfully built colubrid of the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, often appearing nearly all black as an adult.
Cape Tiger Snake
A regional form of tiger snake found on offshore islands and coastal areas, often smaller-bodied than mainland populations.
Collett's Snake
A robust, strikingly patterned elapid endemic to the black-soil floodplains of interior Queensland.
Semiornate Snake
A large, patterned African bush snake with cross-barring on the neck, harmless to humans and one of the bigger species in its genus.
Coral Pipe Snake
A brightly banded red-and-black burrowing snake from the Amazon, mimicking venomous coral snakes despite being harmless.
Cape House Snake
A common, non-venomous constrictor found throughout southern Africa, frequently encountered near human settlements where it hunts rodents.
Short-Nosed Snake
A small, secretive elapid endemic to the heathlands and forests of southwestern Western Australia, notable for its blunt snout.
Dunmall's Snake
A rare, secretive elapid of inland brigalow woodland in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales.
Bighead Sea Snake
A sea snake with a proportionally oversized head, found in coastal waters of northern Australia and the Arafura Sea.