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.
Gould's Hooded Snake
A small elapid of southwestern Australia named for its dark head marking resembling a hood.
Dwarf File Snake
A small African file snake with rough, keeled scales, named for its diminutive size relative to its larger relatives.
Mertens' Coral Snake
A South American coral snake honoring herpetologist Robert Mertens, found in the dry western forests of Ecuador and Peru.
Elegant Coral Snake
A tricolor coral snake of humid montane and lowland forests in eastern Mexico.
King Rat Snake
A large, powerfully built East Asian rat snake with strongly keeled scales, known for its yellowish crossbanding and its role as a natural predator of venomous snakes.
Dwarf Pipe Snake
A tiny, rarely seen fossorial snake from Southeast Asia representing one of the most poorly known snake families in the world.
Bogert's Coral Snake
A rare, range-restricted Mexican coral snake named for herpetologist Charles Bogert, found only along the Oaxacan Pacific coast.
Bogert's Garter Snake
A montane garter snake from the highlands of Oaxaca, named after herpetologist Charles Bogert.
Cope's Garter Snake
A highland garter snake from the Valley of Mexico, named after the prolific 19th-century naturalist Edward Drinker Cope.
Carib Coral Snake
A coral snake of Trinidad and northern Venezuela, marked with bold tricolor rings along its slender body.
Conant's Garter Snake
A garter snake from the highlands of southern Mexico named in honor of herpetologist Roger Conant.
Mexican Alpine Blotched Garter Snake
A high-altitude garter snake from central Mexico's volcanic peaks, marked by a ladder-like blotched pattern rather than clean stripes.
Common Smooth-Scaled Water Snake
A small, mildly venomous, aquatic colubrid common in the rice paddies, ponds, and waterways of Southeast Asia.
Southern Durango Spotted Garter Snake
A montane garter snake from the pine-oak forests of southern Durango, distinguished by a spotted rather than striped dorsal pattern.
Solomon Islands Small-Eyed Snake
A rare, poorly known elapid endemic to the Solomon Islands, the sole species in its genus.
Black-banded Cat-eyed Snake
A widespread nocturnal colubrid of the Americas with large cat-like eyes and a banded or blotched pattern, common near wetlands.
New Guinea Small-Eyed Snake
A large, potent elapid found in New Guinea, notable for its small eyes and highly variable coloration.
Big Bend Black-Headed Snake
A small, reddish-brown desert snake with a dark head cap, found in rocky canyons of the Big Bend region.
Slender Hognosed Pit Viper
A slender terrestrial pit viper of Pacific dry forest habitats in Central America, related to other hognosed pit vipers.
Cloudy Snail-eating Snake
A slender, big-eyed nocturnal snake specialized for extracting snails and slugs from their shells, found in humid Neotropical forests.
Common Mud Snake Malayan
A small, common freshwater mud snake found throughout Southeast Asia, frequently seen in rice paddies and slow-moving waters.
Twin-spotted Rat Snake
A small, slender rat snake from China marked with paired dark spots along its back, well suited to rocky and hilly terrain.
Olive-Headed Sea Snake
A moderately large sea snake with an olive-toned head and faint banding, found in the estuarine and coastal waters of northern Australia.
Sind Awl-Headed Snake
A small, secretive burrowing colubrid of the arid Indus region, named for its narrow, pointed, awl-shaped snout adapted for pushing through sand.