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.
Desert Horned Viper
An iconic desert viper of the Sahara and Arabian Peninsula, easily recognized by the small hornlike scales often present above its eyes.
Arabian Horned Viper
A sand-dwelling desert viper of the Arabian Peninsula, closely resembling the African Horned Viper but occupying a distinct eastern range.
Broadley's Bush Viper
A small, dark-colored arboreal viper of Central African rainforest, named in honor of herpetologist Donald Broadley.
East African Gaboon Viper
A large, elaborately patterned viper found in East and Central African rainforests, closely related to the West African Gaboon Viper.
Kenyan Horned Bush Viper
A little-known arboreal bush viper of Cameroon, distinguished by its enlarged subocular scales and rough, keeled body scalation.
Great Lakes Bush Viper
A medium-sized arboreal viper found in montane forests near the African Great Lakes, with variable green, blue, or yellow coloration.
Nose-Horned Viper Ammodytes
Europe's most venomous snake, easily identified by a distinctive soft horn-like scale projecting from the tip of its snout.
West African Gaboon Viper
A massive, ornately patterned viper with the longest fangs of any snake, native to West African rainforests.
Cyclades Blunt-Nosed Viper
A critically endangered island viper found only on Milos and a few neighboring Cycladic islands in the Aegean Sea.
Mount Kenya Bush Viper
A rare, range-restricted arboreal viper found only in isolated highland forest patches near Mount Kenya.
Eastern Green Mamba Bush Viper
An arboreal African viper with rough, keeled scales and variable green coloration, often mottled with yellow or blue tones.
Sichuan Lancehead
A terrestrial pit viper native to Sichuan Province, China, part of the Protobothrops group of Asian lanceheads.
Common Lancehead
The most widespread lancehead of the Amazon Basin, a major cause of snakebite envenomation across tropical South America.
Habu
A large, aggressive pit viper endemic to Japan's Ryukyu Islands, notorious as the region's most medically significant snake.
Japanese Mamushi
A small but medically significant pit viper widespread across Japan, responsible for the majority of the country's venomous snakebites.
Urutu
A heavy-bodied pit viper of grasslands and marshes in southern South America, known for its distinctive alternating dark blotches.
Amazon False Fer-de-lance
A harmless, viper-mimicking colubrid of the Amazon that flattens its head into a triangular shape to fool predators into thinking it is a dangerous pit viper.
Ussuri Mamushi
A small, cold-tolerant pit viper of the Russian Far East and northeastern Asia.
Short-Tailed Mamushi
A short, stout pit viper closely related to the Japanese mamushi, found across East Asia.
Rock Mamushi
A rock-dwelling pit viper native to the Korean Peninsula, closely resembling other regional mamushis.
Golden Lancehead
A critically endangered island-endemic pit viper found only on a single Brazilian island, known for unusually potent venom adapted to hunting birds.
Indian Smooth Snake
A small, secretive, non-venomous colubrid found across drier parts of India, rarely encountered due to its fossorial habits.
Round Island Boa
A now likely-extinct burrowing boa once endemic to Round Island near Mauritius, notable for its unique jaw structure among snakes.
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.