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.
Tiger Snake
A highly venomous Australian elapid known for its banded pattern and defensive flattened-neck display.
Night Snake
A small, secretive, cat-eyed colubrid of arid western North America that is rear-fanged but harmless to humans.
Grass Snake
A common, harmless European snake closely tied to wetlands and known for its distinctive yellow neck collar and bluffing defensive display.
Grey Snake
A small, uncommon elapid of inland eastern Australia's floodplains and grasslands, closely related to the Marsh Snake.
Fiji Snake
A rare, burrowing elapid endemic to Viti Levu in Fiji, and the only terrestrial venomous snake native to the islands.
Bridal Snake
A slender relative of the diadem snakes endemic to the Zagros region of western Iran, marked with fine, small scales and a subtly blotched pattern.
Carpentaria Snake
A small, slender elapid restricted to the savanna country around the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Scorpion-eating Snake
A tiny, secretive burrowing snake with a dark head cap, specialized in preying on scorpions and centipedes.
Forest Flame Snake
A slender tricolor Neotropical snake whose banded red-and-black pattern mimics venomous coral snakes.
Red-Tailed Pipe Snake
A widespread Southeast Asian burrowing snake with a glossy black body and a vividly banded red-and-black tail used in defensive display.
Guyana Blackback Coral Snake
A small coral snake of northern South America and southern Central America, patterned in tricolor rings with narrow pale bands.
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.
New Mexico Milk Snake
A tricolor milk snake subspecies of the arid Southwest, with vivid red, black, and white banding across a slender body.
Blue Malayan Coral Snake
A striking Southeast Asian elapid with an iridescent blue-black body, a bright red head and tail, and venom notable for producing unusually rapid effects.
South American Coral Snake
A strikingly banded elapid of South American forests and wetlands, marked with the classic red-black-yellow triad pattern shared by many New World coral snakes.
Giant Garter Snake
California's largest garter snake, an endangered wetland specialist of the Central Valley.
MacClelland's Coral Snake
A small, brightly patterned coral snake of Asian montane forests, recognized by its orange-brown body with black crossbands and a black-and-orange head pattern.
Graham's Crayfish Snake
A slender, striped aquatic snake of the central U.S. plains and prairies that feeds heavily on crayfish.
Long-tailed Snake
A rare, slender, banded fossorial snake endemic to the sandy scrub habitats of central Florida.
Brown's Coral Snake
A tricolor coral snake of Pacific-slope forests in southern Mexico and northern Central America.
Plain Tree Snake
A fast-moving, slender brown colubrid found in the forests of Central America and northwestern South America.
Honduran Milk Snake
One of the largest milk snakes, native to Central America and known for its wide, vivid banding.
Mexican Parrot Snake
A slender green tree snake closely related to the parrot snake, found in Mexican and Central American forests.