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.
Pygmy Python
The world's smallest python species, a tiny constrictor restricted to a small region of northwestern Australia.
Ravergier's Snake
A slender, fast-moving diurnal whip snake found across arid and semi-arid habitats from the eastern Mediterranean through the Caucasus into Central Asia.
Bornean Keeled Green Pit Viper
A venomous, strikingly patterned pit viper of Southeast Asian rainforests, closely related to the well-known Wagler's pit viper.
Red-Bellied Black Snake
A glossy black elapid with a vivid red or pink belly, common near waterways in eastern Australia.
Speckled Green Snake
A slender green African bush snake distinguished by fine dark speckling along its back, harmless to humans.
Southern Pacific Rattlesnake
A common rattlesnake of coastal and inland southern California, noted for its variable venom and dark diamond blotches.
Egyptian Saw-Scaled Viper
A small but highly dangerous viper known for producing a rasping warning sound by rubbing its serrated scales together.
Redback Coffee Snake
A small, secretive leaf-litter snake with a distinctive reddish stripe down its back, common in Central American forests.
Zayu Mountain Pit Viper
A little-known, regionally endemic pit viper from the mountainous borderlands of southeastern Tibet.
Everglades Rat Snake
An orange to reddish rat snake variant native to South Florida's Everglades, prized for its vivid coloration among rat snake forms.
Shield-Nosed Snake
A small, thick-bodied elapid of southern Africa named for its enlarged, shield-like rostral scale used for burrowing.
Cyclades Blunt-Nosed Viper
A critically endangered island viper found only on Milos and a few neighboring Cycladic islands in the Aegean Sea.
Red-Bellied Snake
A tiny woodland colubrid best known for its bright red or orange belly, common across eastern North America.
Olive House Snake
A plain, uniformly colored non-venomous snake from southern Africa often found near water and moist habitats.
Water Snake
A heavy-bodied, aquatic colubrid frequently mistaken for venomous cottonmouths.
Ring-Necked Snake
A small, secretive colubrid identified by a bright ring of color around its neck, common across much of North America.
Spotted Wolf Snake
A small, spotted South Asian wolf snake with enlarged front teeth used to grip prey, harmless to humans.
Diamond Python
A cool-climate subspecies of carpet python from southeastern Australia, marked with diamond-shaped clusters of pale scales on a black background.
Sonoran Lyresnake
A slender, big-eyed nocturnal snake named for the lyre-shaped mark on its head, with rear fangs used to subdue small prey.
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.
Rufous Beaked Snake
A fast-moving, ground-dwelling African snake named for its distinctive upturned, beak-like snout used for burrowing and probing after prey.
Short-Tailed Mamushi
A short, stout pit viper closely related to the Japanese mamushi, found across East Asia.
Elegant Sea Snake
A large, robust sea snake native to Australian waters, patterned with broad dark bands that fade with age, often found in reef and estuarine habitats.
Tonkin Pit Viper
A green pit viper native to the Tonkin region of northern Vietnam and adjacent southern China.
Kinabalu Pit Viper
A montane green pit viper restricted to the high elevations of Mount Kinabalu in Borneo.
Worm Snake Eastern
A small, glossy, worm-like colubrid of eastern North American forests, spending nearly all its life burrowed in loose, moist soil.
Eastern Small-Eyed Snake
A small, glossy black nocturnal elapid widespread along the eastern Australian coast and ranges.
Slender Hognosed Pit Viper
A slender terrestrial pit viper of Pacific dry forest habitats in Central America, related to other hognosed pit vipers.
Yellow-bellied House Snake
A small, non-venomous South African house snake distinguished by its bright yellow underside contrasting with a darker back.
Ussuri Mamushi
A small, cold-tolerant pit viper of the Russian Far East and northeastern Asia.
Lataste's Viper
A small viper of the Iberian Peninsula and northwestern Africa, recognized by a small upturned snout scale.
Monocled Cobra
A highly venomous cobra of South and Southeast Asia distinguished by a single circular marking on its hood, resembling a monocle.
Russell's Kukri Snake
A small, harmless kukri snake of the Indian subcontinent named after herpetologist Patrick Russell.
Sierra Garter Snake
An aquatic garter snake restricted to Sierra Nevada foothill streams and rivers of California.
Black-headed Bushmaster
A large, rare pit viper endemic to a small region of Pacific Costa Rica, distinguished by its notably dark head.
Golden-Crowned Snake
A secretive nocturnal elapid with a golden crown-like marking on the head, found in eastern Australian forests and gardens.
Water Python
A glossy, iridescent python closely tied to Australia's tropical wetlands, famous for its rainbow sheen in sunlight.
Banded Cat-eyed Snake
A slender, nocturnal, mildly venomous snake with bold banding and cat-like pupils, common near wetlands.
Sochurek's Saw-Scaled Viper
A medically important desert viper closely related to the Common Saw-Scaled Viper, recognized as a distinct species in some taxonomies.
Sundevall's Garter Snake
A small, secretive African garter snake with a banded pattern, related to cobras but with weak venom and a reclusive, burrowing lifestyle.
Rhinoceros Viper
A strikingly patterned African viper with distinctive horn-like scales on its snout, known for stunning geometric coloration.
Cape Grass Snake
A common southern African grass snake with a diamond-patterned back, mildly venomous but not dangerous to humans.
Central Plains Milk Snake
A tricolor milk snake subspecies of the central US plains, closely resembling other regional milk snakes with red, black, and cream banding.
Snouted Night Adder
A small African night adder with an upturned snout, adapted for a burrowing, frog-hunting lifestyle.
Gaboon Adder
One of the largest and heaviest vipers in the world, renowned for its intricate geometric camouflage and formidable fangs.
Sonoran Gopher Snake
A desert-adapted gopher snake subspecies with a lighter, more contrasting pattern than its coastal relatives, common throughout the Sonoran Desert.
Storm's Water Cobra
A large, strongly aquatic cobra of Central African rivers and lakes, named for herpetologist Storm and adapted for a semi-aquatic lifestyle.
Rubber Boa Northern
A small, smooth-skinned, docile boa from western North America named for its rubbery, loose-fitting skin.