Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
Checkered Garter Snake
A striped garter snake with a bold checkerboard pattern of dark blotches between the stripes, found across the arid Southwest.
Broad-Headed Snake
A striking, endangered rock-dwelling elapid restricted to sandstone escarpments near Sydney, Australia.
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.
Coral Pipe Snake
A brightly banded red-and-black burrowing snake from the Amazon, resembling coral snakes in pattern.
Aquatic Coral Snake
An unusually large and semi-aquatic coral snake of the Amazon Basin, notable among elapids for its strongly water-associated lifestyle and fish-heavy diet.
Cape House Snake
A common constrictor found throughout southern Africa, frequently encountered near human settlements where it hunts rodents.
Redtail Coral Snake
A slender coral snake distinguished by its black-and-white banded body ending in a strikingly reddish-orange tail.
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.
Cauca Coral Snake
A slender tricolor coral snake endemic to Colombia, patterned in classic red-black-yellow rings.
Amazonian Coral Snake
A large tricolor coral snake of the Amazon rainforest with broad black, red, and white/yellow ring triads.
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.
Ecuadorian Coral Snake
A coral snake native to Ecuador's lowland forests, displaying the classic red-black-yellow tricolor warning pattern.
Eastern Coral Snake
A slender, brightly banded elapid of the southeastern United States, famous for its red-yellow-black ring pattern.
Plains Garter Snake
A grassland garter snake of the central Plains, typically showing a bright orange or yellow dorsal stripe on a dark body.
Red Vine Snake
A slender, laterally compressed arboreal colubrid of the Amazon known for its striking red, black, and yellow banded pattern.
Stuart's Coral Snake
A Guatemalan highland coral snake named for herpetologist Laurence Stuart, showing bold red-black-yellow tricolor rings.
Utah Milk Snake
A small tricolor milk snake subspecies with narrow red, black, and white/yellow bands found in the arid intermountain West.
Desert Coral Snake
A Mexican Pacific coast coral snake adapted to dry tropical habitats, with bold red, black, and white/yellow tricolor rings.
Nayarit Coral Snake
A western Mexican coral snake found along the Pacific coast of Nayarit and Jalisco, marked by classic red-black-yellow banding.
Guatemalan Milk Snake
A vividly banded milk snake subspecies from southern Mexico and Guatemala, known for its bold red, black, and yellow tricolor pattern.
Paradise Flying Snake
A slender, brilliantly patterned colubrid famed for its ability to glide from tree to tree, marked with black scales speckled in green, yellow, and red.
Amur Rat Snake
A large, glossy black-and-yellow rat snake native to the temperate forests of the Russian Far East, China, and Korea, well adapted to cold winters.
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.
Black Swamp Snake
A small, glossy black semi-aquatic snake with a bright red-orange belly, found in southeastern wetlands.