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.
Ball Python
A small, docile, non-venomous python native to West and Central Africa, famous for curling into a tight ball as a defensive posture.
Papuan Python
One of the largest pythons of New Guinea, a powerful constrictor capable of preying on sizeable mammals.
Stimson's Python
A small, hardy python well adapted to Australia's dry interior, one of the smallest pythons in the world.
Pygmy Python
The world's smallest python species, a tiny constrictor restricted to a small region of northwestern Australia.
Water Python
A glossy, iridescent python closely tied to Australia's tropical wetlands, famous for its rainbow sheen in sunlight.
Timor Python
A slender relative of the reticulated python complex, restricted to Timor and neighboring islands in Indonesia.
Children's Python
One of the smallest python species, native to northern Australia, and named not after children but after zoologist John George Children.
Macklot's Python
An island-dwelling relative of the Water Python, found across Indonesia's Lesser Sunda archipelago.
Calabar Python
A small, cylindrical burrowing python from Africa with a blunt tail used to mimic its head as a defense strategy.
Blood Python
A stout, non-venomous python of Southeast Asia known for its short, heavy build and rich reddish or blood-colored patterning.
Woma Python
A non-venomous python of Australia's arid interior, unusual among pythons for lacking heat-sensing labial pits.
Molucca Python
A reticulated python population native to the Moluccan islands of Indonesia, sharing the intricate net-like patterning typical of the species.
Black-Headed Python
A striking Australian python with a glossy jet-black head and neck contrasting sharply with a banded tan-and-brown body.
Boelen's Python
A striking black python with an iridescent sheen and cream banding, restricted to the mountainous highlands of New Guinea.
Palmerston Carpet Python
A locality of the Darwin carpet python subspecies from the Palmerston area near Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory.
Mexican Burrowing Python
A rare, primitive burrowing snake from Mexico and Central America, the sole member of its own family and a close relative of true pythons.
Green Tree Python
A vividly green, non-venomous arboreal python of New Guinea and northern Australia, known for its striking resemblance to the emerald tree boa of South America.
White-Lipped Python
A group of glossy, dark-bodied New Guinea pythons named for the pale scales lining their upper jaw.
Selayer Reticulated Python
A regional dwarf population of the reticulated python native specifically to Selayar Island off Sulawesi.
Reticulated Python
The longest snake species in the world, a Southeast Asian constrictor famed for its intricate, iridescent pattern.
Diamond Python
A cool-climate subspecies of carpet python from southeastern Australia, marked with diamond-shaped clusters of pale scales on a black background.
Bredl's Python
A rich reddish-brown python endemic to the arid ranges of central Australia, closely related to the carpet pythons.
Angolan Python
A small African python from the arid regions of Angola and Namibia, marked with a bold pattern of dark blotches on a lighter background.
Olive Python
One of Australia's largest snakes, a plain olive-brown python found around rocky gorges and river systems in the continent's arid and tropical north.