Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
Speckled Shield Cobra
A cobra of Central Asian deserts and semi-arid regions, distinguished by its plain, faintly speckled scales.
Spectacled Cobra
One of India's 'Big Four' snakes, famous for the spectacle-shaped mark on its raised hood.
Spitting Cobra
A group of African and Asian cobras known for rearing up with the hood spread.
Spotted Black Snake
A robust black snake with fine speckling, found in the inland woodlands and floodplains of southeastern Australia.
Spotted Harlequin Snake
A small, brightly patterned southern African elapid with a slender body and boldly spotted coloration, resembling coral snake relatives.
Stephens' Banded Snake
A boldly banded, tree-dwelling elapid found in coastal forests of eastern Australia.
Storm's Water Cobra
A large, strongly aquatic cobra of Central African rivers and lakes, named for herpetologist Storm and adapted for a semi-aquatic lifestyle.
Striped Coral Snake
One of the largest and most widespread South American coral snakes, boldly banded in red, black, and white.
Sundevall's Garter Snake
A small, secretive African garter snake with a banded pattern, related to cobras, with a reclusive, burrowing lifestyle.
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.
Tiger Snake
An Australian elapid known for its banded pattern and flattened-neck display.
Uruguayan Coral Snake
A small coral snake of the temperate grasslands and forests of Uruguay and neighboring regions.
Variable Coral Snake
A tricolor coral snake with highly variable banding patterns found across much of Mexico and northern Central America.
Venezuelan Coral Snake
A tricolor coral snake of Venezuela's lowlands and llanos, notable for evenly spaced black rings of roughly equal width to the red bands.
Wall's Krait
A banded krait of the Gangetic plains, named after herpetologist Frank Wall, closely resembling the Common Krait.
Water Coral Snake
An unusually aquatic coral snake of the Amazon Basin, bearing classic red-black-yellow banding, but rarely encountered due to its semi-aquatic habits.
West African Brown Spitting Cobra
A small brown spitting cobra of the West African Sahel.
West Mexican Coral Snake
A tricolor coral snake restricted to the Pacific coastal lowlands and foothills of western Mexico.
Western Brown Snake
A highly variable and widely distributed Australian elapid, found across arid and semi-arid regions of the continent.
Western Green Mamba
A vivid green, arboreal mamba of West African forests, closely related to the eastern green mamba but geographically separated by the continent's dry central belt.
White-Lipped Snake
A small, cold-tolerant elapid of cool southern Australian habitats, named for the pale scales bordering its upper lip.
Yellow-Faced Whipsnake
A slender, fast-moving Australian elapid named for the distinctive yellowish marking on its face, active by day and generally shy toward humans.
Zebra Spitting Cobra
A boldly banded spitting cobra of the arid southwestern African coast, named for its striking black-and-cream crossbanded pattern.
Balsan Coral Snake
A slender tricolor coral snake endemic to Mexico's Balsas River depression, recognized by narrow black-white-black triads separated by broad red bands.
Black Tree Cobra
A slender, arboreal West African forest cobra closely related to Gold's tree cobra, marked by its uniform blackish coloration.
Black-headed Coral Snake
One of the most widespread and frequently recorded coral snakes of Central America, with a solid black head and tricolor banded body.
Bogert's Coral Snake
A rare, range-restricted Mexican coral snake named for herpetologist Charles Bogert, found only along the Oaxacan Pacific coast.
Burmese Krait
A black-and-white banded krait of Myanmar and adjacent southern China, closely related to the Many-banded Krait.
Butler's Snake
A small, secretive burrowing elapid endemic to the semi-arid country of Western Australia.
Carib Coral Snake
A coral snake of Trinidad and northern Venezuela, marked with bold tricolor rings along its slender body.
Carpentaria Snake
A small, slender elapid restricted to the savanna country around the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Central Ranges Taipan
A rarely encountered desert-dwelling taipan discovered in the remote tri-state border region of central Australia.
Cloud Forest Coral Snake
A montane coral snake found in the cloud forests of Oaxaca, marked by bold tricolor rings adapted to cool, wet, high-elevation habitats.
Collared Whipsnake
A small, fast-moving whipsnake distinguished by a dark collar-like marking near the head, found in inland eastern Australia.
Congo Water Cobra
A slender, semi-aquatic cobra of the central Congo River system, closely related to the banded water cobra but generally smaller and less boldly patterned.
Desert Banded Snake
A tiny, burrowing banded elapid of the Western Australian desert, rarely seen due to its subterranean lifestyle.
Dunmall's Snake
A rare, secretive elapid of inland brigalow woodland in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales.
Ecuadorian Coral Snake
A coral snake native to Ecuador's lowland forests, displaying the classic red-black-yellow tricolor warning pattern.
Elegant Coral Snake
A tricolor coral snake of humid montane and lowland forests in eastern Mexico.
Fiji Snake
A rare, burrowing elapid endemic to Viti Levu in Fiji, and the only terrestrial elapid native to the islands.
Gould's Hooded Snake
A small elapid of southwestern Australia named for its dark head marking resembling a hood.
Grey Snake
A small, uncommon elapid of inland eastern Australia's floodplains and grasslands, closely related to the Marsh Snake.
Grey Whipsnake
A slender, grey-toned whipsnake of Australia's tropical north, active by day and known for its speed and sharp vision.
Gunther's Garter Snake
A small, secretive East African garter snake, part of the elapid genus Elapsoidea, with burrowing habits.
Ingram's Brown Snake
A large tropical brown snake species from northern Australia, closely related to other Pseudonaja species.
Kellogg's Coral Snake
A slender Asian coral snake with a dark body, pale crossbars, and a boldly barred coral-red underside.
Kimberley Death Adder
A recently described death adder species endemic to the rugged Kimberley region of northwestern Australia.
Lake Cronin Snake
A rare and little-known elapid known only from a small area of southwestern Australia near Lake Cronin.