Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
Indochinese Spitting Cobra
A mottled gray-and-black spitting cobra common across mainland Southeast Asia, frequently encountered in and around rural villages.
Spitting Cobra
A group of African and Asian cobras known for rearing up with the hood spread.
Ashe's Spitting Cobra
The largest of the spitting cobras, a robust brown East African species capable of exceptional size.
Zebra Spitting Cobra
A boldly banded spitting cobra of the arid southwestern African coast, named for its striking black-and-cream crossbanded pattern.
Equatorial Spitting Cobra
A predominantly black or dark-colored spitting cobra found across the Malay Peninsula and the islands of Sumatra and Borneo.
Javan Spitting Cobra
A dark, glossy spitting cobra endemic to Java, Bali, and nearby Indonesian islands, closely related to the equatorial spitting cobra.
Red Spitting Cobra
A small, brightly colored East African cobra, typically salmon-red or orange with a black throat band.
Mozambique Spitting Cobra
A medium-sized spitting cobra of southern and East Africa.
Nubian Spitting Cobra
A moderately sized spitting cobra of the Sahelian and Nile Valley regions of northeastern Africa, described to science relatively recently.
Black Spitting Cobra
A uniformly glossy black spitting cobra found in the arid western regions of southern Africa, once considered a color form of the zebra spitting cobra.
Mandalay Spitting Cobra
A little-studied spitting cobra restricted to the dry central plains of Myanmar, described as a distinct species in the early 2000s.
Black-Necked Spitting Cobra
A widespread and highly adaptable African cobra.
West African Brown Spitting Cobra
A small brown spitting cobra of the West African Sahel.
Samar Cobra
A spitting cobra native to the central and southern Philippines, closely related to the Philippine cobra of Luzon but recognized as a distinct species.
Rinkhals
A distinctive southern African elapid, related to but taxonomically separate from true cobras, known for feigning death and giving birth to live young.
Senegalese Cobra
A large West African cobra recently split from the Egyptian cobra complex, found in savanna habitats of the western Sahel.