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.
Western Shovel-Nosed Snake
A small, banded desert specialist with a flattened, shovel-shaped snout adapted for burrowing through loose sand.
Western Patch-Nosed Snake
A slender, fast-moving desert snake named for the enlarged, shield-like scale covering the tip of its snout.
Short-Nosed Snake
A small, secretive elapid endemic to the heathlands and forests of southwestern Western Australia, notable for its blunt snout.
Shield-Nosed Snake
A small, thick-bodied elapid of southern Africa named for its enlarged, shield-like rostral scale used for burrowing.
Long-Nosed Snake
A boldly patterned desert snake with black, cream, and red saddles and a distinctively pointed, upturned nose.
Western Shovelnose Snake
A small, boldly banded desert colubrid with a countersunk lower jaw and flattened snout adapted for swimming through loose desert sand.
Western Hognose Snake
A stout, upturned-nosed colubrid of the North American prairies, known for its bluffing displays and generally docile nature.
Sonoran Shovel-Nosed Snake
A brightly banded desert snake closely resembling the Western Shovel-Nosed Snake, restricted to rocky Sonoran Desert foothills.
Short-Nosed Sea Snake
A small, rare sea snake with a short blunt snout, historically known from a few reef systems off Western Australia and now considered of high conservation concern.
Long-Nosed Worm Snake
A small, worm-like blind snake found in the leaf litter and soil of Trinidad and adjacent parts of northern South America.
Northern Shovel-Nosed Snake
A small, banded burrowing elapid restricted to the arid sandy regions of northern and northwestern Australia.
Western Whip Snake
A fast, alert colubrid of southern Europe known for its bold yellow-and-black pattern and defensive temperament.
Western Rat Snake
A large, dark constrictor of the central U.S. that darkens with age, closely related to the eastern and gray rat snakes.
Western Worm Snake
A small, uniformly purplish-brown burrowing snake of the central plains, closely resembling its eastern relative.
Western Fox Snake
A stout, tan-and-brown blotched constrictor of the Midwest prairies, sometimes mistaken for a rattlesnake due to defensive tail vibration.
Western Lyre Snake
A slender, big-eyed nocturnal snake of desert canyons and rocky slopes, named for the lyre-shaped mark atop its head.
Western Ribbon Snake
A slender, fast-moving striped snake closely tied to water, ranging from the central US south through Mexico into Central America.
Western Brown Snake
A highly variable and widely distributed Australian elapid with potent venom, found across arid and semi-arid regions of the continent.
Western Blind Snake
A small, glossy, worm-like burrowing snake widespread across the deserts of the American Southwest, feeding almost exclusively on ants and termites.
Mountain Patch-Nosed Snake
A slender striped snake of rocky foothills and mountain canyons, closely related to the Western Patch-Nosed Snake.
Southern Shovel-Nosed Snake
A small burrowing elapid from southern and western Australia with a distinctive banded pattern and a shovel-shaped snout for digging through sand.
Blunt-Nosed Viper
A large, robust viper found across the Middle East, Central Asia, and parts of North Africa, regarded as one of the most medically important vipers in its range.
Long-nosed Rattlesnake
A regionally used name sometimes applied to slender-snouted rattlesnakes of arid terrain, most often referring to the tiger rattlesnake.
Western Groundsnake
A small, highly variable desert snake that may be striped, banded, or plain depending on the population.