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.
Glossy Snake
A pale, sleek desert snake resembling a gophersnake but with smoother scales and a distinctly glossy sheen.
Aquatic Garter Snake
A strongly aquatic garter snake of Pacific coast streams and rivers, closely tied to clean flowing water.
Indian Rat Snake
One of the largest and most commonly encountered snakes in South Asia, a fast-moving diurnal hunter that plays a major role in controlling rodent populations.
Painted Coral Snake
A vividly ringed coral snake of the South American Atlantic Forest, notable for its black snout and tricolor banding pattern.
Beauty Rat Snake
A strikingly patterned, long-bodied rat snake from East and Southeast Asia, prized for its glossy scales and bold longitudinal stripes near the tail.
Milk Snake
A boldly banded, harmless colubrid known for mimicking the warning colors of venomous coral snakes across much of its range.
Mole Snake
A large, powerfully built, non-venomous African snake specialized in preying on burrowing rodents.
Twig Snake
A slender, cryptically colored tree-dwelling snake whose twig-like body and mottled coloring make it nearly invisible among branches; it is rear-fanged and produces a potent hemotoxic venom.
Mud Snake
A glossy black semi-aquatic snake with a vivid red-and-black checkered belly, often called the 'hoop snake' or 'stinging snake' in folklore.
Golden Tree Snake
A slender, arboreal colubrid of South and Southeast Asia known for its ability to glide between trees, marked with black speckling over a golden-green body.
Adorned Coral Snake
A strikingly patterned Amazonian coral snake whose scientific name, ornatissimus, reflects its especially vivid tricolor banding.
Dwarf Snake
A small, plain-colored colubrid found across the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, notable for its secretive habits and diminutive size.
Marsh Snake
A moderately common small elapid of moist eastern Australian habitats, often found near water and marshy ground.
Queen Snake
A slender, semi-aquatic snake of clean, rocky streams that feeds almost exclusively on freshly molted crayfish.
Moila Snake
A robust, fast-moving desert snake of North Africa and Arabia, known as the 'false cobra' for its hood-flattening threat display.
Sea Snake
A fully marine elapid adapted for life at sea, with a paddle-like tail and no need to return to land.
Indian Flying Snake
A slender, golden-patterned tree snake famous for its ability to glide between trees by flattening its body into a concave shape.
Calico Snake
A common name for the tricolor Neotropical snake also called the false coral snake, prized for its striking patchwork of red, black, and cream bands.
Scarlet Snake
A small, secretive, banded snake often confused with venomous coral snakes but harmless to humans.
Sunbeam Snake
A glossy, iridescent burrowing snake of Southeast Asia named for the rainbow sheen its smooth scales produce in sunlight.
Parrot Snake
A slender, bright green, diurnal tree snake with large eyes, common throughout Neotropical forests.
Garter Snake
One of North America's most widespread and familiar snakes, easily recognized by its longitudinal stripes and adaptability to varied habitats.
Yellow Rat Snake
A striking striped rat snake variant found in the Deep South, typically yellow or olive with four dark longitudinal stripes.
Cat Snake
A slender, nocturnal, rear-fanged colubrid named for its vertically elliptical, cat-like pupils, found across South Asia and the Middle East.