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.
Western Whip Snake
A fast, alert colubrid of southern Europe known for its bold yellow-and-black pattern and defensive temperament.
Orange-Naped Snake
A slender elapid with a bold orange nape patch and black head, widespread across northern and eastern Australia.
Red Vine Snake
A slender, laterally compressed arboreal colubrid of the Amazon known for its striking red, black, and yellow banded pattern.
South American Coral Snake
A strikingly banded elapid of South American forests and wetlands, marked with the classic red-black-yellow triad pattern shared by many New World coral snakes.
Chinese Sea Snake
One of the larger and more widely distributed true sea snakes, recognizable by its bold black and yellow-green banding, ranging across coastal Asian waters.
Cape Coral Snake
A small, brightly banded burrowing elapid of arid southern Africa, known for its bold red-and-black or coral pattern.
Water Coral Snake
An unusually aquatic coral snake of the Amazon Basin, bearing classic red-black-yellow banding and a potent neurotoxic venom, but rarely encountered due to its semi-aquatic habits.
Blue Coral Snake
A strikingly beautiful elapid with an iridescent blue-black body, red head and tail, and one of the most potent venoms among Asian elapids.
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.
Paradise Flying Snake
A slender, brilliantly patterned colubrid famed for its ability to glide from tree to tree, marked with black scales speckled in green, yellow, and red.
Eastern Coral Snake
A slender, brightly banded elapid of the southeastern United States, famous for its red-yellow-black ring pattern and the mnemonic rhyme used to distinguish it from harmless mimics.
Broad-banded Coral Snake
A widespread Central American coral snake known for its notably broad black bands compared to many relatives.
Eastern Small-Eyed Snake
A small, glossy black nocturnal elapid widespread along the eastern Australian coast and ranges.
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.
Arizona Black Rattlesnake
A darkly colored montane rattlesnake of central Arizona known for its ability to darken further with age and altitude.
Transcaucasian Ratsnake
A small, secretive ratsnake of the Caucasus and surrounding mountains, closely related to the Aesculapian snake but with a much smaller range and size.
Black-tailed Rattlesnake
A calm-tempered rattlesnake of the southwestern deserts and mountains, easily identified by its solid black tail.
Steppe Ratsnake
A widespread, cold-tolerant ratsnake of the Eurasian steppe and taiga edges, ranging farther north than almost any other ratsnake species.
Northern Black-tailed Rattlesnake
A robust, calm-tempered rattlesnake of rocky desert and mountain terrain, easily recognized by its uniformly dark tail.
Red-tailed Racer
A slender, bright green arboreal snake from Southeast Asian rainforests, distinguished by the reddish-brown coloration of its tail contrasting with its emerald green body.
Persian Ratsnake
A slender, olive-brown ratsnake of the southern Caspian region, marked with a broken dark vertebral line and named for its historic Persian range.
Desert Cobra
A glossy black, primarily nocturnal elapid found in the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East, considered venomous and potentially dangerous to humans.
Timber Rattlesnake
A heavy-bodied woodland rattlesnake of the eastern United States, often showing dark chevron banding and a black tail.
Banded Rock Rattlesnake
A small, colorful rattlesnake of rocky mountain slopes, known for its bold black or dark bands set against a bluish-gray to greenish body.