Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
Mexican Hognose Snake
A stocky, upturned-snouted snake famous for its dramatic bluff display, including hissing, hood-flattening, and death-feigning.
Western Shovelnose Snake
A small, boldly banded desert colubrid with a countersunk lower jaw and flattened snout adapted for swimming through loose desert sand.
Awl-Headed Snake
A small desert colubrid with a pointed, awl-like snout used for burrowing, closely related to the crowned leaf-nosed snake and adapted to sandy habitats.
Beaked Sea Snake
A fully aquatic sea snake often entangled in fishing nets.
Texas Coral Snake
A brightly ringed coral snake of Texas, Louisiana, and northeastern Mexico, closely related to and long considered a subspecies of the eastern coral snake.
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.
Eastern Ribbon Snake
A slender, striped water-loving snake closely related to garter snakes, distinguished by its very long tail and slim build.
Western Hognose Snake
A stout, upturned-nosed colubrid of the North American prairies, known for its bluffing displays.
Clifford's Snake
A robust, boldly blotched diadem snake found in sandy and rocky desert habitats from North Africa across the Middle East into Central and South Asia.
Dunmall's Snake
A rare, secretive elapid of inland brigalow woodland in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales.
Flowerpot Snake
The world's most widely distributed snake species, a tiny worm-like blind snake spread globally through the potted plant trade.
Dwarf Snake
A small, plain-colored colubrid found across the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, notable for its secretive habits and diminutive size.
Master's Snake
A small, secretive elapid of semi-arid southern Australia, closely related to the White-Lipped Snake but occupying drier habitats.
Ravergier's Snake
A slender, fast-moving diurnal whip snake found across arid and semi-arid habitats from the eastern Mediterranean through the Caucasus into Central Asia.
Milk Snake
A boldly banded colubrid whose red, black, and pale banding resembles that of coral snakes across much of its range.
Mole Snake
A large, powerfully built African snake specialized in preying on burrowing rodents.
Rosen's Snake
A small, secretive elapid of arid Australia, in the same genus as the curl snake.
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 coral snakes.
Twig Snake
A slender, cryptically colored tree-dwelling snake whose twig-like body and mottled coloring make it nearly invisible among branches.
Glossy Snake
A pale, sleek desert snake resembling a gophersnake but with smoother scales and a distinctly glossy sheen.
Marsh Snake
A moderately common small elapid of moist eastern Australian habitats, often found near water and marshy ground.
Crowned Snake
The largest of the crowned snakes, a secretive nocturnal elapid of eastern Australian forests, named for its pale head marking.
Sunbeam Snake
A glossy, iridescent burrowing snake of Southeast Asia named for the rainbow sheen its smooth scales produce in sunlight.