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.
Dwyer's Snake
A small, dark-headed elapid found in rocky woodland habitats of eastern Australia.
Mexican Brown Snake
A small, secretive brown snake found in the highlands of central Mexico, closely related to the Dekay's brown snake of North America.
Barred Coral Snake
A brightly banded coral snake native to the Pacific coastal region of Mexico, notable for its wide black bands.
Western Lyre Snake
A slender, big-eyed nocturnal snake of desert canyons and rocky slopes, named for the lyre-shaped mark atop its head.
Sinaloan Milk Snake
A brightly banded, non-venomous milk snake from western Mexico, known for its vivid red, black, and white/yellow tricolor rings.
Marbled Tree Snake
A small, nocturnal African tree snake with a mottled, marbled body pattern that provides effective camouflage among foliage.
Olive Sea Snake
A common and highly venomous sea snake of Indo-Pacific coral reefs, known for its curious behavior toward divers and olive-brown coloration.
Plain Tree Snake
A fast-moving, slender brown colubrid found in the forests of Central America and northwestern South America.
Green Bush Snake
A slender, bright green, non-venomous African tree snake frequently seen in gardens and hedges, harmless to humans.
Clark's Coral Snake
A tricolor coral snake of Pacific lowland rainforests in Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador.
Black-striped Snake
A small, secretive tan snake with dark longitudinal stripes, found in brushy lowlands of southern Texas and Mexico.
Caspian Whip Snake
One of Europe's largest snakes, a powerful and fast-moving colubrid found across the Balkans, Caucasus, and into Western Asia.
Fine-Spined Sea Snake
A stout, boldly banded sea snake common in muddy coastal waters and a frequent bycatch species of trawl fisheries across the Indo-Pacific.
Ringed Brown Snake
One of the smallest members of the brown snake genus, distinguished by dark banding around its body, found in arid central and western Australia.
Estuarine Sea Snake
A sea snake specialized for life in murky estuarine and river-mouth waters across the Indo-West Pacific, tolerant of reduced salinity.
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.
Ringneck Snake
A small, widespread North American snake recognized by a bright yellow, orange, or cream neck ring against a dark, uniform body.
Viperine Snake
A harmless aquatic colubrid from southwestern Europe and North Africa whose zigzag pattern mimics that of true vipers.
Wagler's Snake
A nocturnal, vertical-pupiled colubrid from Mexico and Central America closely related to the widespread cat-eyed snakes.
Green Cat Snake
A large, bright green nocturnal tree snake with prominent cat-like vertical pupils, found across South and Southeast Asian forests.
Caatinga Coral Snake
A tricolor coral snake endemic to the dry Caatinga scrublands of northeastern Brazil.
Golden-Crowned Snake
A secretive nocturnal elapid with a golden crown-like marking on the head, found in eastern Australian forests and gardens.
Louisiana Pine Snake
One of North America's rarest snakes, a large burrowing constrictor tied closely to pocket gopher burrows in longleaf pine forests.
Southern Coral Snake
A striking tricolor coral snake of central South America's woodlands and grasslands, notable for its potent venom.