Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
Puff Adder
A widespread, thick-bodied African viper, largely camouflaged and abundant.
Common Puff Adder
A widespread and heavy-bodied African viper, abundant and well camouflaged.
Puff-Faced Water Snake
A bold, patterned Southeast Asian water snake with a distinctive puffed facial appearance, common in ponds and waterways.
Peringuey's Adder
A tiny, dorsally-eyed desert adder famous for sidewinding across the Namib's shifting dunes.
Red Adder
A recently described small viper with reddish coloration, endemic to mountain ranges of South Africa's Cape region.
Gaboon Adder
One of the largest and heaviest vipers in the world, renowned for its intricate geometric camouflage.
Berg Adder
A small mountain-dwelling viper of southern Africa.
Death Adder
A short, ambush-hunting elapid that resembles a viper in shape and behavior despite belonging to the cobra family.
Gaboon Viper
One of the largest vipers in the world, with a broad triangular head and remarkably calm movements.
European Adder
The only snake native to much of the British Isles, with an enormous range spanning from western Europe to the Russian Far East, including areas within the Arctic Circle.
Horned Adder
A small desert adder with a prominent single horn-like scale above each eye, well camouflaged against sandy soils.
Common Adder
A small, widespread viper found across Europe and into northern Asia, notable for having the largest geographic range of any land snake species.
Pilbara Death Adder
A regional death adder species endemic to the rocky Pilbara landscape of northwestern Australia.
Desert Death Adder
A reddish, sand-dwelling death adder adapted to Australia's arid interior deserts.
Northern Death Adder
A stout, ambush-hunting elapid with a viper-like body shape, found across tropical northern Australia and New Guinea.
Desert Mountain Adder
A little-known rocky-terrain adder confined to arid mountain slopes along the Orange River region of southern Africa.
Forest Night Adder
A small, forest-dwelling night adder of Central and West Africa, adapted to a life among leaf litter in dense rainforest.
Many-Horned Adder
A rocky-habitat adder distinguished by clusters of small spiny scales above each eye, unlike the single horn of related species.
Yellow-bellied Puffing Snake
One of South America's largest colubrid snakes, known for inflating its neck and hissing loudly when threatened, with a bright yellow underside.
Velvety Green Night Adder
A smooth-scaled, bright green night adder found in East and Central African grasslands, distinguished from bush vipers by its rounded head and smooth scalation.
Snouted Night Adder
A small African night adder with an upturned snout, adapted for a burrowing, frog-hunting lifestyle.
Kimberley Death Adder
A recently described death adder species endemic to the rugged Kimberley region of northwestern Australia.
Namaqua Dwarf Adder
Regarded as the world's smallest viper species, this diminutive adder inhabits coastal dunes of southern Africa.
Common Death Adder
A short, thick-bodied ambush-predator elapid that mimics a viper in body shape and hunting style, using a worm-like tail lure to attract prey.