Snake Identifier

Snake Encyclopedia

Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.

Bocourt's Coral Snake

Bocourt's Coral Snake

A vividly ringed true coral snake native to the Pacific lowlands of Colombia and Ecuador.

Uruguayan Coral Snake

Uruguayan Coral Snake

A small coral snake of the temperate grasslands and forests of Uruguay and neighboring regions.

Oaxacan Coral Snake

A tricolor coral snake restricted to montane and foothill forests of Oaxaca, Mexico.

Peruvian Coral Snake

An Andean coral snake native to Peru, displaying the classic ringed warning pattern of its genus.

Putumayo Coral Snake

A regional Amazonian coral snake named for the Putumayo River area, displaying vivid red, black, and pale tricolor rings.

Hemprich's Coral Snake

Hemprich's Coral Snake

A monadal-patterned coral snake of the Amazon rainforest, named after the German naturalist Wilhelm Hemprich.

Striped Coral Snake

Striped Coral Snake

One of the largest and most widespread South American coral snakes, boldly banded in red, black, and white.

Cauca Coral Snake

Cauca Coral Snake

A slender tricolor coral snake endemic to Colombia, patterned in classic red-black-yellow rings.

Australian Coral Snake

Australian Coral Snake

A small, brightly banded burrowing elapid found across arid and semi-arid regions of Australia, unrelated to true New World coral snakes.

Nayarit Coral Snake

A western Mexican coral snake found along the Pacific coast of Nayarit and Jalisco, marked by classic red-black-yellow banding.

Tuxtlan Coral Snake

A tricolor coral snake endemic to the humid volcanic forests of Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico.

MacClelland's Coral Snake

MacClelland's Coral Snake

A small, brightly patterned coral snake of Asian montane forests, recognized by its orange-brown body with black crossbands and a black-and-orange head pattern.

Para Coral Snake

A Brazilian Amazonian coral snake named for the state of Para, displaying the classic tricolor ring pattern.

Adorned Coral Snake

Adorned Coral Snake

A strikingly patterned Amazonian coral snake whose scientific name, ornatissimus, reflects its especially vivid tricolor banding.

Amazonian Coral Snake

Amazonian Coral Snake

A large tricolor coral snake of the Amazon rainforest with broad black, red, and white/yellow ring triads.

Painted Coral Snake

Painted Coral Snake

A vividly ringed coral snake of the South American Atlantic Forest, notable for its black snout and tricolor banding pattern.

Brown's Coral Snake

Brown's Coral Snake

A tricolor coral snake of Pacific-slope forests in southern Mexico and northern Central America.

Steindachner's Coral Snake

An Andean foothill coral snake named for Austrian naturalist Franz Steindachner, showing bold tricolor rings.

Barred Coral Snake

Barred Coral Snake

A brightly banded coral snake native to the Pacific coastal region of Mexico, notable for its wide black bands.

Ornate Coral Snake

Ornate Coral Snake

A brightly ringed coral snake of the western Amazon, named for its elaborately patterned body.

Regal Coral Snake

Regal Coral Snake

A tricolor coral snake widespread across Mexico's Gulf lowlands and the Yucatan Peninsula.

Sonoran Coral Snake

Sonoran Coral Snake

A small, brightly banded desert coral snake found in Arizona and northwestern Mexico, distinguished by its blunt black snout.

Dumeril's Coral Snake

Dumeril's Coral Snake

A tricolor coral snake of humid forests in northern South America, named for French naturalist Auguste Dumeril.

Tamaulipan Coral Snake

A coral snake endemic to the state of Tamaulipas in northeastern Mexico, displaying the classic tricolor warning pattern.