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.
Broad-banded Coral Snake
A widespread Central American coral snake known for its notably broad black bands compared to many relatives.
Keel-Bellied Whip Snake
A slender, mildly venomous, arboreal colubrid of Southeast Asian forests, notable for the distinct keeled scales along its belly.
Broad-banded Garter Snake
A striped garter snake variant found near streams and rivers in Texas, notable for its wide dorsal stripe.
Big Bend Black-Headed Snake
A small, reddish-brown desert snake with a dark head cap, found in rocky canyons of the Big Bend region.
Yaqui Black-Headed Snake
A small, secretive snake of southeastern Arizona's mountain canyons, with a tan body and dark head cap.
West Mexican Coral Snake
A tricolor coral snake restricted to the Pacific coastal lowlands and foothills of western Mexico.
Northern Shovel-Nosed Snake
A small, banded burrowing elapid restricted to the arid sandy regions of northern and northwestern Australia.
Northern Small-Eyed Snake
A small, secretive nocturnal elapid of tropical northern Australia with a pale head and glossy dark body.
Diamondback Water Snake
A large, heavy-bodied water snake with a distinctive dark, diamond-shaped netlike pattern on an olive-brown background.
Southeastern Green Snake
A slender, bright green North American snake with keeled scales, well known as a gentle, harmless resident of shrubs and vines.
Sonoran Shovel-Nosed Snake
A brightly banded desert snake closely resembling the Western Shovel-Nosed Snake, restricted to rocky Sonoran Desert foothills.
Sundevall's Garter Snake
A small, secretive African garter snake with a banded pattern, related to cobras but with weak venom and a reclusive, burrowing lifestyle.
Short-headed Garter Snake
A small, range-restricted garter snake found only in a narrow area of Pennsylvania and New York, specialized for hunting earthworms.
Copperbelly Water Snake
A regionally threatened subspecies of the Redbelly Water Snake, named for its vivid orange-red underside, restricted to isolated wetlands of the American Midwest.
Assam Trinket Snake
A regional subspecies of trinket snake from the hill forests of northeastern India, sharing the bold chain-like pattern of its relatives.
Sind Awl-Headed Snake
A small, secretive burrowing colubrid of the arid Indus region, named for its narrow, pointed, awl-shaped snout adapted for pushing through sand.
American Pipe Snake
A striking red-and-black banded burrowing snake from the Amazon Basin, often mistaken for a venomous coral snake.
Algerian Whip Snake
A slender, fast-moving colubrid native to the Maghreb region of North Africa, closely related to the horseshoe whip snake.
Adorned Coral Snake
A strikingly patterned Amazonian coral snake whose scientific name, ornatissimus, reflects its especially vivid tricolor banding.
Oriental Whip Snake
An extremely slender, bright green colubrid with a pointed snout, common in gardens and forest edges across South and Southeast Asia, with mild venom of little concern to people.
Diard's Blind Snake
One of the larger blind snakes in Asia, a stout burrowing species found in forest soils and leaf litter.
Bibron's Blind Snake
A small, worm-like burrowing blind snake widespread across southern and eastern Africa, with vestigial eyes and a smooth, glossy body.
Elegant Coral Snake
A tricolor coral snake of humid montane and lowland forests in eastern Mexico.
Common Bridal Snake
A small, slender nocturnal colubrid from South Asia with a delicate banded pattern.