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.
Collared Sea Snake
A patterned sea snake with a distinctive dark collar marking behind the head, found in coastal waters of the Bay of Bengal and northern Indian Ocean.
Desert Banded Snake
A tiny, burrowing banded elapid of the Western Australian desert, rarely seen due to its subterranean lifestyle.
Bombay Sea Snake
A regionally documented sea snake of the western Indian coast, associated with the shallow waters of the Arabian Sea near Mumbai.
Bighead Sea Snake
A sea snake with a proportionally oversized head, found in coastal waters of northern Australia and the Arafura Sea.
Awl-Headed Snake
A small desert colubrid with a pointed, awl-like snout used for burrowing, closely related to the crowned leaf-nosed snake and adapted to sandy habitats.
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.
Mexican Yellowbelly Brown Snake
A small, secretive brown snake from southern Mexico distinguished by its pale yellowish underside.
Cross-marked Sand Snake
A small, slender southern African sand snake named for the distinctive cross- or arrow-shaped marking on its head and neck.
Western Shovel-Nosed Snake
A small, banded desert specialist with a flattened, shovel-shaped snout adapted for burrowing through loose sand.
Common Purple-glossed Snake
A glossy, burrowing African snake with an iridescent purplish sheen, feeding largely on other snakes and reptiles beneath the soil surface.
Schlegel's Beaked Blind Snake
One of the largest blind snakes in the world, notable for its hardened, beak-like snout used to dig through hard African soils.
White-Bellied Mangrove Snake
A stocky, mildly aquatic mangrove-dwelling snake specialized in feeding on soft-shelled crabs.
Northern Small-Eyed Snake
A small, secretive nocturnal elapid of tropical northern Australia with a pale head and glossy dark body.
West Coast Garter Snake
A common streamside garter snake of the Pacific coast, often seen basking near rivers and creeks in California and Oregon.
Yellow-speckled Wolf Snake
A nocturnal Asian wolf snake with fine yellow speckling on a dark body, preying chiefly on lizards.
San Diego Gopher Snake
A large southern California gopher snake subspecies frequently seen in coastal sage scrub and chaparral habitats.
Mississippi Green Water Snake
A stout, greenish water snake of Gulf Coast swamps and bayous, closely related to the Florida green water snake.
Mexican Blackbelly Garter Snake
A semi-aquatic garter snake from the Mexican Plateau notable for its dark, often solid black underside.
Aesculapian False Coral Snake
A mildly venomous South American colubrid that mimics true coral snakes with bold red, black, and white banding.
Yellow-Bellied Sea Snake
The most widely distributed snake species in the world, a fully pelagic sea snake found drifting across open tropical oceans.
Fine-Spined Sea Snake
A stout, boldly banded sea snake common in muddy coastal waters and a frequent bycatch species of trawl fisheries across the Indo-Pacific.
Red-Bellied Black Snake
A glossy black elapid with a vivid red or pink belly, common near waterways in eastern Australia.
Banded Cat-eyed Snake
A slender, nocturnal, mildly venomous snake with bold banding and cat-like pupils, common near wetlands.
Copper-Headed Trinket Snake
A large, striped colubrid with a coppery head and radiating facial lines, widespread across South and Southeast Asia.