Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
Pale-Headed Snake
An arboreal elapid with a pale head, found in woodlands of eastern Australia and often sheltering under loose tree bark.
Jerdon's Sea Snake
A small, lesser-known sea snake found in the coastal waters of South and Southeast Asia, distinguished by its small size and relatively uniform coloration.
Texas Blind Snake
A tiny, worm-like burrowing snake of Texas and northern Mexico, occasionally found in the nests of ants and termites that it feeds on.
Kirtland's Snake
A small, secretive wetland snake with a reddish belly marked by bold black spots, now rare across much of its midwestern range.
Pygmy Mulga Snake
A smaller relative of the mulga snake, restricted to the rocky woodlands of northwestern Australia.
Smooth Green Snake
A small, grass-green colubrid of meadows and grasslands, distinguished from its relative by smooth, unkeeled scales.
Dahl's Whip Snake
A slender, fast-moving whip snake of dry, open habitats across the Balkans, Middle East, and parts of Central Asia.
Brown Water Snake
A large, heavy-bodied water snake often seen basking on branches over southeastern rivers, patterned with square dark blotches.
Andean Milk Snake
A South American milk snake subspecies from Andean foothill regions, displaying classic tricolor banding.
Long-tailed Snake
A rare, slender, banded fossorial snake endemic to the sandy scrub habitats of central Florida.
Giant Garter Snake
California's largest garter snake, an endangered wetland specialist of the Central Valley.
Dubois's Sea Snake
A reef-dwelling sea snake of northern Australian waters known for its uniform coloration.
Sharp-Tailed Snake
A small, secretive Pacific coast colubrid named for the sharp, spine-like tip of its tail, and a specialized predator of slugs.
Western Shovel-Nosed Snake
A small, banded desert specialist with a flattened, shovel-shaped snout adapted for burrowing through loose sand.
Yellow-speckled Wolf Snake
A nocturnal Asian wolf snake with fine yellow speckling on a dark body, preying chiefly on lizards.
Hallowell's Coffee Snake
A small forest-floor snake of Central America closely related to the redback coffee snake, marked with a pale collar and dark body.
Loveridge's Garter Snake
A short-tailed garter snake found in high-elevation grasslands and pine-oak forests of Mexico.
Baja California Rat Snake
A smooth, glossy reddish-brown rat snake endemic to rocky canyons of the Baja California peninsula.
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.
Plains Black-Headed Snake
A small, secretive prairie snake with a plain tan body capped by a distinct black head and neck collar.
Langsdorff's Coral Snake
A widespread Amazonian coral snake named after German naturalist Georg von Langsdorff, patterned in bold tricolor rings.
New Guinea Small-Eyed Snake
A large, potent elapid found in New Guinea, notable for its small eyes and highly variable coloration.
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.
Northwestern Garter Snake
A small, colorful, and highly variable garter snake common in gardens and forests of the Pacific Northwest.