Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
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.
Guyana Blackback Coral Snake
A small coral snake of northern South America and southern Central America, patterned in tricolor rings with narrow pale bands.
Southern Pacific Rattlesnake
A common rattlesnake of coastal and inland southern California, noted for its dark diamond blotches.
Slender Racer
A slim, fast-moving whip snake found in dry, open habitats from the Balkans through the Middle East to Central Asia.
Indian Python
A large python native to the Indian subcontinent, one of the largest snakes in Asia and a species of conservation concern.
Central American Bushmaster
One of the largest snakes in the Americas, a massive, reclusive pit viper of Central American rainforests.
Racer
A slender, fast-moving, sharp-eyed snake known for its speed.
Prairie Kingsnake
A secretive, moderately patterned kingsnake of grasslands and open woods, often mistaken for a young rat snake or gopher snake.
Mimic False Coral
A striking red, black, and cream banded colubrid of South America that mimics coral snakes.
Scarlet Kingsnake
A small, vividly banded red, black, and yellow kingsnake of the southeastern US that resembles the coral snake.
Elegant Bronzeback
A vividly colored, slender tree snake of Southeast Asian rainforests, known for its metallic bronze back and striking blue-and-black flanks.
San Luis Potosi Kingsnake
A boldly banded Mexican highland kingsnake with striking red, black, and cream tricolor rings.
Machete Savane
A large, strikingly patterned black-and-yellow colubrid found from Mexico to Argentina, known locally as the Machete Savane and famed for its speed.
Speckled Kingsnake
A glossy black kingsnake speckled with small yellow spots on nearly every scale, giving it a salt-and-pepper appearance.
Leopard Snake
A strikingly patterned colubrid from southern Europe often regarded as one of the continent's most beautiful snakes.
Painted Bronzeback
A brightly patterned, agile tree snake of Southeast Asia, named for the bold black-and-cream striping revealed between its scales when alarmed.
Bull Snake
A large, powerful colubrid famous for its loud hissing bluff display, often mistaken for a rattlesnake.
Western Fox Snake
A stout, tan-and-brown blotched constrictor of the Midwest prairies, sometimes mistaken for a rattlesnake due to tail vibration.
Gopher Snake
A large, powerfully built colubrid often mistaken for a rattlesnake due to its hissing and tail-vibrating display.
Blotched Snake
A large, powerfully built ratsnake of the Caucasus and steppe regions, patterned with bold dark blotches along a pale body.
Marbled Sea Snake
A small sea snake specialized for feeding on fish eggs rather than active prey.
Striped Harlequin Snake
A small, striped southern African elapid closely related to the spotted harlequin snake, distinguished by longitudinal stripes rather than spots.
Pacific Gopher Snake
A large, heavy-bodied colubrid of the Pacific coast known for its loud hiss and tail-vibrating display that often leads to mistaken identity as a rattlesnake.