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.
Broad-banded Coral Snake
A widespread Central American coral snake known for its notably broad black bands compared to many relatives.
Florida Green Water Snake
A large, heavy-bodied, uniformly greenish water snake common in Florida's lakes, marshes, and swamps.
Grey-bellied Wolf Snake
A small, banded wolf snake found across South Asia and the Middle East, often mistaken for a young krait but completely harmless.
Many-banded Coral Snake
A tricolor coral snake named for its numerous narrow rings encircling the body.
Southwestern Black-Headed Snake
A tiny, secretive desert colubrid with a glossy tan body and a distinct black cap on its head.
De Vis' Banded Snake
A small, secretive elapid of inland eastern Australia's floodplains, closely related to the Ornamental Snake.
Mitchell's Short-Tailed Snake
A small, dark-headed elapid with a notably short tail, found across dry woodland of southeastern Australia.
Black-Headed Sea Snake
A sea snake with a strikingly dark head found along the coasts of Japan and Taiwan, occupying temperate to subtropical coastal waters.
Half-striped Wolf Snake
A small East Asian wolf snake with incomplete banding that fades along the body, harmless to humans.
Rough-Scaled Sea Snake
A heavily built sea snake with distinctly rough, keeled scales, notable for possessing unusually large fangs and potent venom among sea snake species.
Semi-ornate Sand Snake
A fast, slender, striped sand snake found across dry savanna and semi-desert regions of Africa.
Great Plains Rat Snake
A gray-brown rat snake with dark blotches and a distinctive arrow-shaped mark on the head, common in the prairie states.
Trans-Pecos Rat Snake
A slender desert rat snake with a distinctive H-shaped or blotched pattern, found in rocky canyons and limestone hills of the Chihuahuan Desert.
Saddled Leaf-Nosed Snake
A larger relative of the Spotted Leaf-Nosed Snake bearing bold, saddle-shaped brown blotches along its back.
Middle American Gopher Snake
A Mexican highland gopher snake species with a striking pattern of dark blotches on a pale background, found in the central plateau region.
Central American Coral Snake
A widespread and medically significant tricolor coral snake found from southern Mexico through Central America.
Central American Indigo Snake
A large, powerful, non-venomous colubrid related to the eastern indigo snake, with a glossy dark tail and lighter forebody.
Crowned Leaf-Nosed Snake
A small, sand-colored desert colubrid with an upturned, shovel-like snout adapted for burrowing through loose desert sand.
Puff-Faced Water Snake
A bold, patterned Southeast Asian water snake with a distinctive puffed facial appearance, common in ponds and waterways.
Plain-bellied Water Snake
A stout water snake with a plain, unpatterned belly ranging from yellow to orange, and a mostly uniform dorsal color as an adult.
Many-spotted Cat Snake
A slender, densely spotted nocturnal tree snake found across Southeast Asian forests and gardens.
Twin-Spotted Wolf Snake
A small, harmless nocturnal colubrid with paired dark spots and enlarged front teeth resembling those of venomous species.
Banded Malaysian Coral Snake
A small, slender coral snake of Southeast Asian forests, marked with fine dark crossbands and a red underside, that spends most of its life hidden underground.
Dog-toothed Cat Snake
A large, boldly patterned nocturnal tree snake of Southeast Asian forests, named for its notably elongated front teeth.