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 Tree Snake
A slender, arboreal colubrid of South and Southeast Asia known for its ability to glide between trees, marked with black speckling over a golden-green body.
Golden Lancehead
A critically endangered island-endemic pit viper found only on a single Brazilian island, adapted to hunting birds.
Golden-Crowned Snake
A secretive nocturnal elapid with a golden crown-like marking on the head, found in eastern Australian forests and gardens.
Marbled Tree Snake
A small, nocturnal African tree snake with a mottled, marbled body pattern that provides effective camouflage among foliage.
Kirtland's Tree Snake
A slender, uniformly colored nocturnal African tree snake found in rainforest habitats, closely related to other Dipsadoboa tree snakes.
Blanding's Tree Snake
A slender, nocturnal arboreal snake from African rainforests with large eyes adapted for night vision.
Plain Tree Snake
A fast-moving, slender brown colubrid found in the forests of Central America and northwestern South America.
Powdered Tree Snake
A slender, nocturnal African tree snake with a finely speckled, powdery-looking pattern and large eyes suited to night vision.
Gold's Tree Cobra
A large, slender, highly arboreal forest cobra of Central and West Africa, known for its glossy dark coloration and agile climbing ability.
Blunt-headed Tree Snake
An extremely slender, big-eyed nocturnal tree snake with a distinctive blunt, wide head and thread-like neck.
Common Vine Snake
A slender, twig-mimicking African tree snake with exceptional camouflage and keyhole-shaped pupils.
Twin-barred Tree Snake
A small relative of the flying snakes, marked with paired dark bars along a reddish or orange body, native to Southeast Asian forests.
Common Bronzeback
A slender, fast-moving, day-active tree snake with a bronze-toned back, common across gardens and forest edges of the Indian subcontinent.
Common Mole Snake
A large, powerfully built African snake specialized for hunting burrowing rodents, common across a wide range of southern African habitats.
Common Trinket Snake
A slender, attractively patterned colubrid widespread across the Indian subcontinent, sometimes confused with other species due to superficial similarities.
Common Garter Snake
One of the most widespread and familiar snakes in North America, known for its longitudinal stripes and highly variable coloration.
Common Bridal Snake
A small, slender nocturnal colubrid from South Asia with a delicate banded pattern.
Common Wolf Snake
A slender, nocturnal Asian colubrid with banding similar to that of kraits.
Common Kukri Snake
A small banded colubrid named for its curved, kukri-knife-shaped rear teeth used to slit open reptile eggs.
Common Cat Snake
A slender, patterned nocturnal snake found across the Indian subcontinent, often mistaken for a young viper due to its triangular head and vertical pupils.
Ruschenberger's Tree Boa
A slender, arboreal tree boa of Central America and northern South America closely related to the common tree boa.
Blomberg's Tree Boa
A slender, less commonly encountered tree boa native to western Ecuador and Colombia, named after Swedish explorer Rolf Blomberg.
Black Tree Cobra
A slender, arboreal West African forest cobra closely related to Gold's tree cobra, marked by its uniform blackish coloration.
Cook's Tree Boa
A slender arboreal boa endemic to the island of Saint Vincent in the Lesser Antilles, closely related to mainland tree boas but geographically isolated.