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.
Butler's Snake
A small, secretive burrowing elapid endemic to the semi-arid country of Western Australia.
Desert Blind Snake
A tiny, worm-like burrowing snake of the American Southwest deserts with vestigial eyes hidden beneath translucent scales.
Green Bush Snake
A slender, bright green, non-venomous African tree snake frequently seen in gardens and hedges, harmless to humans.
Variable Sand Snake
A small burrowing desert snake closely related to the banded sand snake, showing variable banding intensity across its Sonoran Desert range.
Merida Coral Snake
A high-Andean coral snake endemic to the Merida mountain range of western Venezuela.
Ornate Coral Snake
A brightly ringed coral snake of the western Amazon, named for its elaborately patterned body.
Muller's Snake
A small banded burrowing elapid found in arid regions of western and central Australia.
Cogger's Sea Snake
A reef-associated sea snake of northern Australian and western Pacific waters, named for herpetologist Harold Cogger.
Caspian Whip Snake
One of Europe's largest snakes, a powerful and fast-moving colubrid found across the Balkans, Caucasus, and into Western Asia.
Ornate Shieldtail Snake
A small, glossy burrowing snake from the Western Ghats of India with a distinctive hardened, shield-like tail tip.
Bombay Sea Snake
A regionally documented sea snake of the western Indian coast, associated with the shallow waters of the Arabian Sea near Mumbai.
Bridal Snake
A slender relative of the diadem snakes endemic to the Zagros region of western Iran, marked with fine, small scales and a subtly blotched pattern.
Beddome's Coral Snake
A small, secretive coral snake endemic to the rainforests of the Western Ghats in southern India, named after naturalist Richard Beddome.
Bibron's Coral Snake
A small, elusive coral snake endemic to the Western Ghats of southern India, named after French herpetologist Gabriel Bibron.
Nelson's Milk Snake
A boldly banded milk snake subspecies from western Mexico, featuring wide red bands and narrow black-and-white borders.
Barred Grass Snake
A harmless, water-loving colubrid of Western Europe, closely related to the grass snake and often showing dark vertical barring along the flanks.
Ringed Brown Snake
One of the smallest members of the brown snake genus, distinguished by dark banding around its body, found in arid central and western Australia.
Beddome's Cat Snake
A slender, forest-dwelling cat snake endemic to the Western Ghats of southern India, named in honor of British naturalist Richard Henry Beddome.
Short-Nosed Snake
A small, secretive elapid endemic to the heathlands and forests of southwestern Western Australia, notable for its blunt snout.
Desert Banded Snake
A tiny, burrowing banded elapid of the Western Australian desert, rarely seen due to its subterranean lifestyle.
Dusky Sea Snake
A small, dark-colored sea snake with a restricted range in Western Australian reef waters, of conservation concern due to sharp historical population declines.
Sinaloan Milk Snake
A brightly banded, non-venomous milk snake from western Mexico, known for its vivid red, black, and white/yellow tricolor rings.
Slender Coral Snake
A very thin, small-bodied coral snake of the western Amazon, distinguished by its unusually elongated, worm-like proportions and fine banding pattern.
Shark Bay Sea Snake
A regionally endemic sea snake restricted to the seagrass and reef habitats of Shark Bay in Western Australia.