Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
Levantine Viper
One of the largest vipers of the Middle East and Central Asia.
Blunt-Nosed Viper
A large, robust viper found across the Middle East, Central Asia, and parts of North Africa.
Cyclades Blunt-Nosed Viper
A critically endangered island viper found only on Milos and a few neighboring Cycladic islands in the Aegean Sea.
Long-Nosed Viper
A European viper, easily recognized by the small, soft nasal horn on the tip of its snout.
Nose-Horned Viper
A distinctive viper of southern Europe and the Balkans recognized by a small soft horn on its snout.
Flat-Nosed Pit Viper
A little-known montane pit viper of northern Myanmar and adjacent regions, noted for its flattened snout profile.
Hump-Nosed Pit Viper
A small pit viper of southern India and Sri Lanka, notable for its upturned, hump-like snout.
Nose-Horned Viper Ammodytes
A European viper, easily identified by a distinctive soft horn-like scale projecting from the tip of its snout.
Millard's Hump-Nosed Pit Viper
A small, stout, terrestrial hump-nosed pit viper endemic to Sri Lanka with an upturned snout.
Sri Lankan Hump-Nosed Pit Viper
A small terrestrial pit viper of Sri Lanka and southern India, historically underestimated in medical significance despite its wide distribution.
Milos Viper
A rare, island-endemic viper found only on Milos and a few nearby Cycladic islands in Greece, notable for its restricted range and conservation concern.
Levant Viper
A large, robust viper subspecies found across the Levant and Caucasus, closely related to the widespread Blunt-Nosed Viper.
Ottoman Viper
A large, heavy-bodied mountain viper of Anatolia and the Aegean region.
Lataste's Viper
A small viper of the Iberian Peninsula and northwestern Africa, recognized by a small upturned snout scale.
Russell's Viper
One of Asia's best-known vipers, known for its striking chain-like pattern.
Rhinoceros Viper
A strikingly patterned African viper with distinctive horn-like scales on its snout, known for stunning geometric coloration.
Armenian Viper
A striking, patterned mountain viper of the Armenian highlands, known for its bold blotched coloration and rocky high-altitude habitat.
Malayan Pit Viper
A medium-sized, heavy-bodied pit viper of Southeast Asia known for its distinctive triangular head markings.
Usambara Bush Viper
A small, horn-scaled arboreal viper endemic to the Eastern Arc mountain forests of Tanzania, known for distinctive raised scales above the eyes.
Jumping Pit Viper
A stout, heavy-bodied terrestrial pit viper known for its rapid, forceful strikes that can propel part of its body off the ground.
Common Mock Viper
A small, viper-mimicking colubrid from Asian forests known for its stout body and viper-like posture.
Kanburian Pit Viper
A rare, range-restricted green pit viper known primarily from the Kanchanaburi region of western Thailand.
Sri Lankan Pit Viper
A small, well-camouflaged pit viper.
Slender Hognosed Pit Viper
A slender terrestrial pit viper of Pacific dry forest habitats in Central America, related to other hognosed pit vipers.