Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
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.
Tawny Cat Snake
A slender, pale tawny-colored cat snake found in forests from the eastern Himalayan foothills through Southeast Asia.
Rough Earth Snake
A tiny, plain-colored, fossorial colubrid common in leaf litter and gardens across the southeastern United States.
Gray Rat Snake
A large, blotched gray-and-brown constrictor that retains its juvenile pattern into adulthood, unlike its solid-black eastern relative.
Texas Coral Snake
A brightly ringed coral snake of Texas, Louisiana, and northeastern Mexico, closely related to and long considered a subspecies of the eastern coral snake.
Northern Brown Snake
A fast, alert elapid closely related to the western brown snake, common across arid and tropical northern Australia.
Tricolored Coral Snake
A coral snake whose common name directly reflects its bold red-black-yellow banded pattern.
Cape House Snake
A common constrictor found throughout southern Africa, frequently encountered near human settlements where it hunts rodents.
Mangrove Snake
A large, glossy black colubrid ringed with bright yellow bands, common in Southeast Asian wetlands and mangroves.
Redback Coffee Snake
A small, secretive leaf-litter snake with a distinctive reddish stripe down its back, common in Central American forests.
Ring-Necked Snake
A small, secretive colubrid identified by a bright ring of color around its neck, common across much of North America.
Green Water Snake
A large, heavy-bodied North American watersnake with plain olive-green coloration, common in swamps and marshes of the southeastern U.S.
Argentine Coral Snake
A widely used common name for a monadal-patterned coral snake found across the drier regions of southern South America.
European Blind Snake
A small, worm-like burrowing snake with vestigial eyes, found across the Balkans and eastern Mediterranean, spending most of its life hidden underground.
Grass Snake
A common European snake closely tied to wetlands and known for its distinctive yellow neck collar and bluffing display.
Brown House Snake
A common, adaptable African colubrid frequently found around human dwellings, valued informally for its role in controlling rodent populations.
DeKay's Brown Snake
A small, common brown snake often found in gardens and urban lots, marked by a faint pale stripe bordered by dark spots.
Sonoran Gopher Snake
A desert-adapted gopher snake subspecies with a lighter, more contrasting pattern than its coastal relatives, common throughout the Sonoran Desert.
Northern Water Snake
A heavy-bodied, aquatic colubrid often mistaken for a cottonmouth, common around lakes, ponds, and rivers.
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.
Barred Coral Snake
A brightly banded coral snake native to the Pacific coastal region of Mexico, notable for its wide black bands.
Caspian Whip Snake
One of Europe's largest snakes, a powerful and fast-moving colubrid found across the Balkans, Caucasus, and into Western Asia.
Ceylon Cat Snake
A small, reddish-brown cat snake endemic to Sri Lanka and adjacent southern India, active at night in forested and rural habitats.
Tiger Rat Snake
A large, boldly patterned tropical colubrid, striking in appearance and known for its speed and alertness.