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.
Asp Viper
A moderately stout viper found across western and southern Europe, closely related to the Common Adder and generally considered more dangerous.
Blomberg's Tree Boa
A slender, less commonly encountered tree boa native to western Ecuador and Colombia, named after Swedish explorer Rolf Blomberg.
Southern Shovel-Nosed Snake
A small burrowing elapid from southern and western Australia with a distinctive banded pattern and a shovel-shaped snout for digging through sand.
Nayarit Coral Snake
A western Mexican coral snake found along the Pacific coast of Nayarit and Jalisco, marked by classic red-black-yellow banding.
Bridal Snake
A slender relative of the diadem snakes endemic to the Zagros region of western Iran, marked with fine, small scales and a subtly blotched pattern.
Rubber Boa Northern
A small, smooth-skinned, docile boa from western North America named for its rubbery, loose-fitting skin.
Beddome's Coral Snake
A small, secretive coral snake endemic to the rainforests of the Western Ghats in southern India, named after naturalist Richard Beddome.
Bibron's Coral Snake
A small, elusive coral snake endemic to the Western Ghats of southern India, named after French herpetologist Gabriel Bibron.
Sonoran Shovel-Nosed Snake
A brightly banded desert snake closely resembling the Western Shovel-Nosed Snake, restricted to rocky Sonoran Desert foothills.
Senegalese Cobra
A large West African cobra recently split from the Egyptian cobra complex, found in savanna habitats of the western Sahel.
Brown Vine Snake
A slender, brown-colored vine snake with a pointed snout, native to the Western Ghats, closely related to the more familiar green vine snakes.
Nelson's Milk Snake
A boldly banded milk snake subspecies from western Mexico, featuring wide red bands and narrow black-and-white borders.
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.
Black Spitting Cobra
A uniformly glossy black spitting cobra found in the arid western regions of southern Africa, once considered a color form of the zebra spitting cobra.
Barred Grass Snake
A harmless, water-loving colubrid of Western Europe, closely related to the grass snake and often showing dark vertical barring along the flanks.
Ringed Brown Snake
One of the smallest members of the brown snake genus, distinguished by dark banding around its body, found in arid central and western Australia.
Beddome's Cat Snake
A slender, forest-dwelling cat snake endemic to the Western Ghats of southern India, named in honor of British naturalist Richard Henry Beddome.
Leaf-Scaled Sea Snake
A small, rare sea snake restricted to a limited stretch of Western Australian coral reef waters, named for its distinctive leaf-shaped body scales.
Dusky Sea Snake
A small, dark-colored sea snake with a restricted range in Western Australian reef waters, of conservation concern due to sharp historical population declines.
Sinaloan Milk Snake
A brightly banded, non-venomous milk snake from western Mexico, known for its vivid red, black, and white/yellow tricolor rings.
Fork-marked Sand Snake
A slender arid-zone sand snake named for the fork-shaped marking on its head, found across the dry western landscapes of southern Africa.
Whitaker's Sand Boa
A small, burrowing sand boa native to western India, named for herpetologist Romulus Whitaker and closely related to the more widespread red sand boa.
Slender Coral Snake
A very thin, small-bodied coral snake of the western Amazon, distinguished by its unusually elongated, worm-like proportions and fine banding pattern.
Spectacled Sea Snake
A slender, pale-banded sea snake named for the ring-like markings around its eyes, inhabiting shallow tropical seas of the Indian Ocean and western Pacific.