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.
Blue Coral Snake
A strikingly beautiful elapid with an iridescent blue-black body, red head and tail, and one of the most potent venoms among Asian elapids.
White-Lipped Snake
A small, cold-tolerant elapid of cool southern Australian habitats, named for the pale scales bordering its upper lip.
Water Coral Snake
An unusually aquatic coral snake of the Amazon Basin, bearing classic red-black-yellow banding and a potent neurotoxic venom, but rarely encountered due to its semi-aquatic habits.
Western Hognose Snake
A stout, upturned-nosed colubrid of the North American prairies, known for its bluffing displays and generally docile nature.
Florida Crowned Snake
A tiny, secretive snake endemic to peninsular Florida's sandy scrub habitats, marked by a dark crown-like cap over the head.
Variegated Wolf Snake
A larger Southeast Asian wolf snake with variable banding that changes with age, harmless to humans despite krait-like appearance.
Beaked Blind Snake
A robust African blind snake with a distinctive hardened, beak-like snout adapted for digging.
Large Shieldtail Snake
One of the larger species within the shieldtail snake family, endemic to the moist forests of India's Western Ghats.
Guatemalan Milk Snake
A vividly banded milk snake subspecies from southern Mexico and Guatemala, known for its bold red, black, and yellow tricolor pattern.
Nueces Coral Snake
A regional coral snake population from south Texas, closely related to the Texas coral snake.
Eastern Ribbon Snake
A slender, striped water-loving snake closely related to garter snakes, distinguished by its very long tail and slim build.
Marine File Snake
A small, fully aquatic file snake with banded coloration that lives in coastal marine waters, estuaries, and mangroves across the Indo-Pacific.
Boulenger's Garter Snake
A small, secretive African elapid related to the garter snakes group, with a plain body and burrowing habits.
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.
Graham's Crayfish Snake
A slender, striped aquatic snake of the central U.S. plains and prairies that feeds heavily on crayfish.
Cape Beaked Snake
A blunt-snouted, burrowing blind snake from southern Africa named for its distinctive beaked rostral scale.
Speckled Green Snake
A slender green African bush snake distinguished by fine dark speckling along its back, harmless to humans.
Shield-Nosed Snake
A small, thick-bodied elapid of southern Africa named for its enlarged, shield-like rostral scale used for burrowing.
Spotted Wolf Snake
A small, spotted South Asian wolf snake with enlarged front teeth used to grip prey, harmless to humans.
Rufous Beaked Snake
A fast-moving, ground-dwelling African snake named for its distinctive upturned, beak-like snout used for burrowing and probing after prey.
Elegant Sea Snake
A large, robust sea snake native to Australian waters, patterned with broad dark bands that fade with age, often found in reef and estuarine habitats.
Russell's Kukri Snake
A small, harmless kukri snake of the Indian subcontinent named after herpetologist Patrick Russell.
Pacific Gopher Snake
A large, heavy-bodied colubrid of the Pacific coast known for its loud hiss and defensive tail-vibrating display that often leads to mistaken identity as a rattlesnake.