Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
Viper Boa
A short, stout ground boa that resembles a viper in appearance.
Caucasus Viper
A vividly colored, endangered mountain viper endemic to the forested slopes of the Caucasus region.
Fea's Viper
A strikingly patterned, primitive viper of montane forests, considered one of the most ancient living viper lineages.
Mole Viper
A small, cylindrical, burrowing snake with a distinctive sideways striking motion, found across much of sub-Saharan Africa.
Lataste's Viper
A small viper of the Iberian Peninsula and northwestern Africa, recognized by a small upturned snout scale.
Rhinoceros Viper
A strikingly patterned African viper with distinctive horn-like scales on its snout, known for stunning geometric coloration.
Armenian Viper
A striking, patterned mountain viper of the Armenian highlands, known for its bold blotched coloration and rocky high-altitude habitat.
Russell's Viper
One of Asia's best-known vipers, known for its striking chain-like pattern.
Sand Viper
One of the smallest vipers in the world, a tiny desert adder famous for its sideways locomotion across the dunes of the Namib.
Milos Viper
A rare, island-endemic viper found only on Milos and a few nearby Cycladic islands in Greece, notable for its restricted range and conservation concern.
Orsini's Viper
A small, secretive meadow-dwelling viper with fragmented populations across Europe.
Darevsky's Viper
A small, high-altitude viper endemic to volcanic highlands at the junction of Georgia, Armenia, and Turkey.
Seoane's Viper
A small viper endemic to the cool, humid northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, closely related to the common European adder.
Ottoman Viper
A large, heavy-bodied mountain viper of Anatolia and the Aegean region.
Levant Viper
A large, robust viper subspecies found across the Levant and Caucasus, closely related to the widespread Blunt-Nosed Viper.
Wagner's Viper
A stocky, brightly patterned mountain viper from the highlands of eastern Anatolia.
Nikolsky's Viper
A dark-colored viper closely related to the Common Adder, found in forest-steppe habitats of Ukraine and southwestern Russia.
Dinnik's Viper
A small, high-altitude viper endemic to alpine meadows of the Caucasus Mountains, adapted to cold montane conditions.
McMahon's Viper
A stout, sand-dwelling true viper with an upturned snout adapted for burrowing in loose desert dunes.
Gaboon Viper
One of the largest vipers in the world, with a broad triangular head and remarkably calm movements.
Persian Viper
A rare and localized mountain viper endemic to a small area of the Alborz range in northern Iran.
Levantine Viper
One of the largest vipers of the Middle East and Central Asia.
Meadow Viper
A small, threatened viper of montane meadows and steppe grasslands in southern and southeastern Europe.
Steppe Viper
A small, grassland-dwelling viper of the Eurasian steppe, closely related to the common European Adder.