Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
Green Anaconda
One of the world's heaviest snakes, a massive semi-aquatic constrictor of South American rivers and wetlands.
Green Racer
A slender, bright green, fast-moving snake of South American forests that hunts actively by day for frogs, lizards, and small mammals.
Lichtenstein's Green Racer
A slender green-and-gray South American snake, common in gardens and forest edges, known for its speed.
Velvety Green Night Adder
A smooth-scaled, bright green night adder found in East and Central African grasslands, distinguished from bush vipers by its rounded head and smooth scalation.
Northern Green Anaconda
One of the world's largest and heaviest snakes, this massive semi-aquatic constrictor dominates the rivers and wetlands of the Amazon and Orinoco basins.
Frog-eating Rat Snake
A widespread South and Southeast Asian colubrid closely tied to wetlands, feeding heavily on frogs.
Parrot Snake
A slender, bright green, diurnal tree snake with large eyes, common throughout Neotropical forests.
Semiornate Snake
A large, patterned African bush snake with cross-barring on the neck and one of the bigger species in its genus.
Emerald Snake
A vividly emerald-green African forest snake known for its keeled scales and glossy iridescence.
Sunbeam Snake
A glossy, iridescent burrowing snake of Southeast Asia named for the rainbow sheen its smooth scales produce in sunlight.
Spotted Bush Snake
A slender, bright green African tree snake marked with small dark speckles, commonly seen climbing through shrubs and buildings in search of frogs and lizards.
Glossy Snake
A pale, sleek desert snake resembling a gophersnake but with smoother scales and a distinctly glossy sheen.
Oriental Whip Snake
An extremely slender, bright green colubrid with a pointed snout, common in gardens and forest edges across South and Southeast Asia.
Western Whip Snake
A fast, alert colubrid of southern Europe known for its bold yellow-and-black pattern.
Cape Wolf Snake
A small, nocturnal African colubrid named for its enlarged, recurved front teeth used to grip smooth-scaled reptile prey such as lizards and other snakes.
Satiny Parrot Snake
A slender, iridescent green arboreal snake of Central American rainforests with a glossy, satin-like sheen.
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.
Peters' Thread Snake
A tiny, worm-like burrowing snake from Africa with smooth, glossy scales.
Bibron's Blind Snake
A small, worm-like burrowing blind snake widespread across southern and eastern Africa, with vestigial eyes and a smooth, glossy body.
Baja California Rat Snake
A smooth, glossy reddish-brown rat snake endemic to rocky canyons of the Baja California peninsula.
Mexican Parrot Snake
A slender green tree snake closely related to the parrot snake, found in Mexican and Central American forests.
Japanese Rat Snake
A common, blue-green to olive rat snake native to Japan, historically regarded as a benevolent house guardian in Japanese folklore.
Brown Vine Snake
A slender, brown-colored vine snake with a pointed snout, native to the Western Ghats, closely related to the more familiar green vine snakes.
Chinese Sea Snake
One of the larger and more widely distributed true sea snakes, recognizable by its bold black and yellow-green banding, ranging across coastal Asian waters.