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.
Eastern Montpellier Snake
A large, fast-moving rear-fanged snake known for raising its head cobra-like when threatened, found across the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East.
Duberria Lutrix
A small, harmless African colubrid known scientifically as Duberria lutrix, specialized in eating slugs and snails.
Green Rat Snake
A bright green, arboreal colubrid of Southeast Asian rainforests, closely related to the red-tailed racer and well camouflaged in the forest canopy.
Egg-Eating Snake
A remarkable colubrid with a highly specialized diet consisting entirely of bird eggs, swallowed whole and crushed internally.
Common Mud Snake Malayan
A small, common freshwater mud snake found throughout Southeast Asia, frequently seen in rice paddies and slow-moving waters.
Mexican Blackbelly Garter Snake
A semi-aquatic garter snake from the Mexican Plateau notable for its dark, often solid black underside.
Dwarf Snake
A small, plain-colored colubrid found across the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, notable for its secretive habits and diminutive size.
Eastern Worm Snake
A tiny, glossy, worm-like burrowing snake with a pink belly, rarely seen above ground.
Western Hognose Snake
A stout, upturned-nosed colubrid of the North American prairies, known for its bluffing displays and generally docile nature.
Flying Snake
A slender tree-dwelling colubrid capable of gliding between trees by flattening its body into a concave, wing-like shape.
Twin-spotted Rat Snake
A small, slender rat snake from China marked with paired dark spots along its back, well suited to rocky and hilly terrain.
Yellow-bellied Liophis
A widespread South American colubrid with a bright yellow belly, often found near wetlands and grasslands.
False Fer-de-lance
A harmless colubrid widely known for mimicking dangerous fer-de-lance pit vipers through dramatic head-flattening displays.
Neckband Snake
A small, slender colubrid known for a banded pattern that abruptly changes partway down the body, and a tail that can detach.
Rough Earth Snake
A tiny, plain-colored, fossorial colubrid common in leaf litter and gardens across the southeastern United States.
Indian Smooth Snake
A small, secretive, non-venomous colubrid found across drier parts of India, rarely encountered due to its fossorial habits.
Guatemalan Milk Snake
A vividly banded milk snake subspecies from southern Mexico and Guatemala, known for its bold red, black, and yellow tricolor pattern.
Common Bridal Snake
A small, slender nocturnal colubrid from South Asia with a delicate banded pattern.
Copperbelly Water Snake
A regionally threatened subspecies of the Redbelly Water Snake, named for its vivid orange-red underside, restricted to isolated wetlands of the American Midwest.
Forest Racer
A slim, keel-scaled racer inhabiting the leaf litter and understory of humid Neotropical forests.
Aesculapian False Coral Snake
A mildly venomous South American colubrid that mimics true coral snakes with bold red, black, and white banding.
Japanese Rat Snake
A common, blue-green to olive rat snake native to Japan, historically regarded as a benevolent house guardian in Japanese folklore.
Florida Brown Snake
A small, secretive brown snake common in Florida gardens and leaf litter, harmless to people and a frequent resident of suburban yards.
Black Garter Snake
A dark, aquatic garter snake native to the highland lakes and wetlands of central Mexico.
Emerald Snake
A vividly emerald-green, non-venomous African forest snake known for its keeled scales and glossy iridescence.
False Smooth Snake
A small, secretive rear-fanged colubrid found around the Mediterranean basin, resembling true smooth snakes but bearing a mild venom used to subdue small prey.
Plain Tree Snake
A fast-moving, slender brown colubrid found in the forests of Central America and northwestern South America.
Eastern Ribbon Snake
A slender, striped water-loving snake closely related to garter snakes, distinguished by its very long tail and slim build.
Loveridge's Garter Snake
A short-tailed garter snake found in high-elevation grasslands and pine-oak forests of Mexico.
Boomslang
A slender, large-eyed African tree snake famous for its potent hemotoxic venom delivered through rear fangs, making it one of the few colubrids capable of causing severe or fatal envenomation in humans.
Prairie Kingsnake
A secretive, moderately patterned kingsnake of grasslands and open woods, often mistaken for a young rat snake or gopher snake.
Sind Awl-Headed Snake
A small, secretive burrowing colubrid of the arid Indus region, named for its narrow, pointed, awl-shaped snout adapted for pushing through sand.
Sinaloan Milk Snake
A brightly banded, non-venomous milk snake from western Mexico, known for its vivid red, black, and white/yellow tricolor rings.
False Water Cobra
A large, aquatic South American colubrid capable of flattening its neck into a cobra-like hood when threatened.
Chihuahua Mountain Kingsnake
A tricolor highland kingsnake endemic to the pine-oak forests of Chihuahua's mountain ranges.
Mexican Parrot Snake
A slender green tree snake closely related to the parrot snake, found in Mexican and Central American forests.
Banded Water Snake
A heavy-bodied, boldly banded water snake of the southeastern US, often mistaken for the venomous cottonmouth.
Twin-barred Tree Snake
A small relative of the flying snakes, marked with paired dark bars along a reddish or orange body, native to Southeast Asian forests.
California Mountain Kingsnake
A vividly banded non-venomous kingsnake native to the Pacific coast, resembling venomous coral snakes despite lacking venom.
Oriental Whip Snake
An extremely slender, bright green colubrid with a pointed snout, common in gardens and forest edges across South and Southeast Asia, with mild venom of little concern to people.
Striped Crayfish Snake
A small, boldly striped aquatic snake of Florida's wetlands, with a bright yellow belly stripe and a diet centered on crayfish.
Royal Ground Snake
A small, brightly marked ground-dwelling colubrid found in open and forested habitats across northern South America.
Black-headed Cat Snake
A slender, reddish-brown cat snake distinguished by its solid black or dark head, found in lowland forests of Southeast Asia.
Indian Flying Snake
A slender, golden-patterned tree snake famous for its ability to glide between trees by flattening its body into a concave shape.
Graham's Crayfish Snake
A slender, striped aquatic snake of the central U.S. plains and prairies that feeds heavily on crayfish.
Black Swampsnake
A small, glossy black wetland snake with a bright red-orange belly, found in dense marsh vegetation of the southeastern coastal plain.
Ravergier's Snake
A slender, fast-moving diurnal whip snake found across arid and semi-arid habitats from the eastern Mediterranean through the Caucasus into Central Asia.
Speckled Green Snake
A slender green African bush snake distinguished by fine dark speckling along its back, harmless to humans.