Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
Golden Lancehead
A critically endangered island-endemic pit viper found only on a single Brazilian island, adapted to hunting birds.
Common Lancehead
The most widespread lancehead of the Amazon Basin, found across tropical South America.
Horned Adder
A small desert adder with a prominent single horn-like scale above each eye, well camouflaged against sandy soils.
Japanese Mamushi
A small pit viper widespread across Japan.
Urutu
A heavy-bodied pit viper of grasslands and marshes in southern South America, known for its distinctive alternating dark blotches.
Ussuri Mamushi
A small, cold-tolerant pit viper of the Russian Far East and northeastern Asia.
Habu
A large pit viper endemic to Japan's Ryukyu Islands.
False Fer-de-lance
A colubrid widely known for resembling fer-de-lance pit vipers through dramatic head-flattening displays.
Common Adder
A small, widespread viper found across Europe and into northern Asia, notable for having the largest geographic range of any land snake species.
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.
Smooth Snake
A secretive, smooth-scaled European colubrid often mistaken for a viper, notable for constricting prey including other reptiles.
Bredl's Python
A rich reddish-brown python endemic to the arid ranges of central Australia, closely related to the carpet pythons.
Velvety Green Night Adder
A smooth-scaled, bright green night adder found in East and Central African grasslands, distinguished from bush vipers by its rounded head and smooth scalation.
South American Bushmaster
The longest viper in the Americas, a massive pit viper of Amazonian rainforest with a distinctive spined tail.
Bushmaster
The longest viper in the Americas and the largest pit viper in the world, an elusive forest dweller of Central and South America.
Berg Adder
A small mountain-dwelling viper of southern Africa.
Terciopelo
A large pit viper found across Central America.
Brazilian Lancehead
A medium to large lancehead pit viper of central Brazil's savanna.
Southern Bark Snake
A small, viper-mimicking African colubrid with a zigzag dorsal pattern.
Puff Adder
A widespread, thick-bodied African viper, largely camouflaged and abundant.
Common Puff Adder
A widespread and heavy-bodied African viper, abundant and well camouflaged.
Sakishima Habu
A medium-sized pit viper endemic to the Sakishima Islands of southern Japan.
Southern Copperhead
A common, well-camouflaged pit viper of southern woodlands with a cryptic pattern.