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.
Great Plains Rat Snake
A gray-brown rat snake with dark blotches and a distinctive arrow-shaped mark on the head, common in the prairie states.
Trans-Pecos Rat Snake
A slender desert rat snake with a distinctive H-shaped or blotched pattern, found in rocky canyons and limestone hills of the Chihuahuan Desert.
Japanese Four-lined Rat Snake
A common Japanese rat snake marked with four dark longitudinal stripes running the length of its body, frequently seen in fields and gardens.
Black Garter Snake
A dark, aquatic garter snake native to the highland lakes and wetlands of central Mexico.
Black-striped Snake
A small, secretive tan snake with dark longitudinal stripes, found in brushy lowlands of southern Texas and Mexico.
Desert Black Snake
A glossy black elapid of arid Middle Eastern deserts, closely related to cobras and possessing potent neurotoxic venom.
Black-Headed Snake
A tiny, secretive desert colubrid distinguished by a solid black or dark cap over the head, contrasting with its plain lighter body.
Black Milk Snake
A milk snake subspecies notable for becoming almost entirely glossy black as it matures, losing its juvenile banded pattern.
Black Pine Snake
A rare, uniformly dark subspecies of pine snake found in the longleaf pine forests of the Gulf Coast states.
Black File Snake
A small, dark, heavily keeled fossorial snake from East Asian forests, named for the rasp-like texture of its scales.
Black-Naped Snake
A slender burrowing elapid identified by a distinctive black patch on the back of the neck, native to southern Australia.
Black Whip Snake
A large, fast, and powerfully built colubrid of the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, often appearing nearly all black as an adult.
Spotted Black Snake
A robust black snake with fine speckling, found in the inland woodlands and floodplains of southeastern Australia.
Black Swamp Snake
A small, glossy black semi-aquatic snake with a bright red-orange belly, found in southeastern wetlands.
Papuan Black Snake
A large, glossy black elapid found in the wetlands and grasslands of southern Papua New Guinea.
Central American Indigo Snake
A large, powerful, non-venomous colubrid related to the eastern indigo snake, with a glossy dark tail and lighter forebody.
Red-Bellied Black Snake
A glossy black elapid with a vivid red or pink belly, common near waterways in eastern Australia.
Yaqui Black-Headed Snake
A small, secretive snake of southeastern Arizona's mountain canyons, with a tan body and dark head cap.
Plains Black-Headed Snake
A small, secretive prairie snake with a plain tan body capped by a distinct black head and neck collar.
Black-Ringed Mangrove Snake
A boldly ringed sea snake associated with mangrove-lined coastlines of the northern Bay of Bengal.
Central Plains Milk Snake
A tricolor milk snake subspecies of the central US plains, closely resembling other regional milk snakes with red, black, and cream banding.
Central American Coral Snake
A widespread and medically significant tricolor coral snake found from southern Mexico through Central America.
Black-headed Coral Snake
One of the most widespread and frequently recorded coral snakes of Central America, with a solid black head and tricolor banded body.
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.