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.
Eastern Coral Snake
A slender, brightly banded elapid of the southeastern United States, famous for its red-yellow-black ring pattern and the mnemonic rhyme used to distinguish it from harmless mimics.
Coral Snake
A brightly ringed, highly venomous elapid known for the rhyme distinguishing it from harmless mimics: 'red touch yellow, kill a fellow.'
Texas Coral Snake
A brightly ringed coral snake of Texas, Louisiana, and northeastern Mexico, closely related to and long considered a subspecies of the eastern coral snake.
Eastern Milk Snake
A boldly patterned, non-venomous snake often mistaken for a coral snake or copperhead due to its reddish-brown blotched pattern.
Eastern Montpellier Snake
A large, fast-moving rear-fanged snake known for raising its head cobra-like when threatened, found across the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East.
Eastern Brown Snake
A fast, alert, and highly venomous Australian elapid considered one of the most medically significant snakes on the continent.
Eastern Ribbon Snake
A slender, striped water-loving snake closely related to garter snakes, distinguished by its very long tail and slim build.
Eastern Fox Snake
A stout blotched constrictor of the Great Lakes wetlands and prairies, closely related to the western fox snake.
Eastern Rat Snake
A large, glossy black constrictor common across the eastern U.S., often seen climbing trees or barn rafters in search of rodents and birds.
Eastern Worm Snake
A tiny, glossy, worm-like burrowing snake with a pink belly, rarely seen above ground.
Worm Snake Eastern
A small, glossy, worm-like colubrid of eastern North American forests, spending nearly all its life burrowed in loose, moist soil.
Eastern Hognose Snake
A harmless-to-humans, theatrical colubrid famous for flattening its neck like a cobra and playing dead when threatened.
Eastern Indigo Snake
The longest native snake in North America, a glossy blue-black giant known for its docile nature and association with gopher tortoise burrows.
Eastern Small-Eyed Snake
A small, glossy black nocturnal elapid widespread along the eastern Australian coast and ranges.
Eastern Kingsnake
A glossy black snake marked with narrow chain-like yellow or white bands, famed for preying on venomous snakes.
Elegant Coral Snake
A tricolor coral snake of humid montane and lowland forests in eastern Mexico.
Bocourt's Coral Snake
A vividly ringed true coral snake native to the Pacific lowlands of Colombia and Ecuador.
Blue Coral Snake
A strikingly beautiful elapid with an iridescent blue-black body, red head and tail, and one of the most potent venoms among Asian elapids.
Water Coral Snake
An unusually aquatic coral snake of the Amazon Basin, bearing classic red-black-yellow banding and a potent neurotoxic venom, but rarely encountered due to its semi-aquatic habits.
Nueces Coral Snake
A regional coral snake population from south Texas, closely related to the Texas coral snake.
Japanese Coral Snake
A small, secretive coral snake endemic to the subtropical Ryukyu Islands of Japan, patterned with reddish-brown bands and equipped with mild neurotoxic venom.
Sauter's Coral Snake
A small, secretive coral snake endemic to Taiwan, named after the naturalist Hans Sauter, with mild neurotoxic venom and reclusive, nocturnal habits.
Desert Coral Snake
A Mexican Pacific coast coral snake adapted to dry tropical habitats, with bold red, black, and white/yellow tricolor rings.
Cape Coral Snake
A small, brightly banded burrowing elapid of arid southern Africa, known for its bold red-and-black or coral pattern.