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.
Phuket Pit Viper
A green pit viper native to the forests around Phuket in southern Thailand.
Salazar's Pit Viper
A recently described green pit viper from northeastern India, popularly noted for being named after a fictional Harry Potter character.
Wagler's Pit Viper
A strikingly patterned arboreal pit viper famous for congregating in large numbers at temples in Malaysia.
Mangshan Pit Viper
A rare and large pit viper endemic to a single mountain region in China, notable for its size and pale, mossy coloration.
Temple Pit Viper
A venomous pit viper famous for the Malaysian temples where groups of these snakes are found coiled among the structures, tolerated by visitors.
Pope's Pit Viper
A slender green pit viper of Southeast Asian forests, named after herpetologist Clifford Pope, and commonly encountered in hill and montane rainforest vegetation.
Philippine Pit Viper
A slender arboreal pit viper endemic to the Philippines, variable in color from green to brown with yellow speckling.
Wirot's Pit Viper
A green arboreal pit viper found in forests of Thailand and the Malay Peninsula, named after Thai herpetologist Wirot Nutaphand.
Himalayan Pit Viper
A cold-adapted pit viper found at high elevations across the Himalayas, among the highest-altitude venomous snakes in Asia.
Tonkin Pit Viper
A green pit viper native to the Tonkin region of northern Vietnam and adjacent southern China.
Andaman Pit Viper
An island-endemic green pit viper found only in the Andaman Islands of India.
Stejneger's Pit Viper
A widespread bright green arboreal pit viper common in bamboo forests and shrublands of East and Southeast Asia.
Bamboo Pit Viper
A slender green pit viper found in forests of peninsular India, closely associated with bamboo thickets and dense foliage.
Mangrove Pit Viper
A slender green pit viper specialized for life along mangrove coastlines and tidal forests across South and Southeast Asia.
Nepal Pit Viper
A stocky mountain pit viper of the Himalayan region, tolerant of cool high-altitude conditions.
Malabar Pit Viper
A highly variable, arboreal pit viper endemic to the biodiverse Western Ghats of India.
Beautiful Pit Viper
A striking green pit viper with a red-bordered lateral stripe found in southern Thailand.
Yunnan Pit Viper
A green pit viper native to Yunnan Province in southern China and adjacent regions.
Kanburian Pit Viper
A rare, range-restricted green pit viper known primarily from the Kanchanaburi region of western Thailand.
Jerdon's Pit Viper
A high-altitude pit viper of the eastern Himalayas and adjacent hill country, marked with bold black and yellow banding.
Elegant Pit Viper
A slender, boldly patterned island pit viper from the Ryukyu archipelago of Japan.
Nicobar Pit Viper
A green pit viper endemic to the Nicobar Islands, closely related to the Andaman pit viper.
Brongersma's Pit Viper
A green Southeast Asian pit viper of Malay Peninsula forests, named for herpetologist Leo Brongersma.
Arunachal Pit Viper
A green pit viper endemic to Arunachal Pradesh, part of a wave of newly described pit viper species from the eastern Himalayan foothills.