Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
Black Mamba
Africa's longest snake, renowned for its speed and the black interior of its mouth.
Black Milk Snake
A milk snake subspecies notable for becoming almost entirely glossy black as it matures, losing its juvenile banded pattern.
Black Mussurana
A large, glossy black colubrid widespread across Latin America, famed for eating other snakes, including vipers and coral snakes.
Black Pine Snake
A rare, uniformly dark subspecies of pine snake found in the longleaf pine forests of the Gulf Coast states.
Black Spitting Cobra
A uniformly glossy black spitting cobra found in the arid western regions of southern Africa, once considered a color form of the zebra spitting cobra.
Black Swamp Snake
A small, glossy black semi-aquatic snake with a bright red-orange belly, found in southeastern wetlands.
Black Swampsnake
A small, glossy black wetland snake with a bright red-orange belly, found in dense marsh vegetation of the southeastern coastal plain.
Black Whip Snake
A large, fast, and powerfully built colubrid of the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, often appearing nearly all black as an adult.
Black-Headed Python
A striking Australian python with a glossy jet-black head and neck contrasting sharply with a banded tan-and-brown body.
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.
Black-Headed Snake
A tiny, secretive desert colubrid distinguished by a solid black or dark cap over the head, contrasting with its plain lighter body.
Black-Naped Snake
A slender burrowing elapid identified by a distinctive black patch on the back of the neck, native to southern Australia.
Black-Necked Spitting Cobra
A widespread and highly adaptable African cobra.
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.
Black-headed Bushmaster
A large, rare pit viper endemic to a small region of Pacific Costa Rica, distinguished by its notably dark head.
Black-headed Cat Snake
A slender, reddish-brown cat snake distinguished by its solid black or dark head, found in lowland forests of Southeast Asia.
Black-headed Centipede-eater
A small, secretive African burrower named for its glossy black head and its diet of centipedes.
Black-necked Garter Snake
A garter snake of rocky canyon streams, easily identified by bold black neck blotches.
Black-speckled Palm Pit Viper
A small, mottled green and black arboreal pit viper found in the high-elevation cloud forests of Costa Rica and Panama.
Black-striped Snake
A small, secretive tan snake with dark longitudinal stripes, found in brushy lowlands of southern Texas and Mexico.
Black-tailed Rattlesnake
A calm-tempered rattlesnake of the southwestern deserts and mountains, easily identified by its solid black tail.
Blanding's Tree Snake
A slender, nocturnal arboreal snake from African rainforests with large eyes adapted for night vision.
Blomberg's Tree Boa
A slender, less commonly encountered tree boa native to western Ecuador and Colombia, named after Swedish explorer Rolf Blomberg.
Blood Python
A stout python of Southeast Asia known for its short, heavy build and rich reddish or blood-colored patterning.
Blossom Krait
A small, krait-like colubrid whose banded pattern often causes it to be mistaken for a krait.
Blotched Snake
A large, powerfully built ratsnake of the Caucasus and steppe regions, patterned with bold dark blotches along a pale body.
Blue Coral Snake
A strikingly beautiful elapid with an iridescent blue-black body and red head and tail.
Blue Krait
A nocturnal krait, slow-moving by day and active after dark.
Blue Malayan Coral Snake
A striking Southeast Asian elapid with an iridescent blue-black body and a bright red head and tail.
Blue-Lipped Sea Krait
A banded, amphibious sea krait that hunts in coral reefs but returns to land to rest, digest, and lay eggs.
Blunt-Nosed Viper
A large, robust viper found across the Middle East, Central Asia, and parts of North Africa.
Blunt-headed Tree Snake
An extremely slender, big-eyed nocturnal tree snake with a distinctive blunt, wide head and thread-like neck.
Boa Constrictor
A large, adaptable New World constrictor found across a wide range of tropical and subtropical habitats.
Bockadam
A common brackish-water snake of Asian mangroves and estuaries, feeding mainly on fish and known for its dog-like snout.
Bocourt's Coral Snake
A vividly ringed true coral snake native to the Pacific lowlands of Colombia and Ecuador.
Boddaert's Tropical Racer
A slender, fast-moving brown racer common across northern South America, active by day in forest and open habitats.
Boelen's Python
A striking black python with an iridescent sheen and cream banding, restricted to the mountainous highlands of New Guinea.
Bolivian Anaconda
A recently described anaconda species from the Bolivian lowlands, considered by some to be a possible hybrid population.
Boomslang
A slender, large-eyed African tree snake.
Bornean Keeled Green Pit Viper
A strikingly patterned pit viper of Southeast Asian rainforests, closely related to the well-known Wagler's pit viper.
Bornean Pit Viper
A green arboreal pit viper endemic to Borneo, common in lowland and hill forest.
Borneo Short-Tailed Python
A stout island relative of the blood pythons, endemic to Borneo, typically lighter and tan-colored compared to its Sumatran cousin.
Boulenger's Garter Snake
A small, secretive African elapid related to the garter snakes group, with a plain body and burrowing habits.
Brahminy Blind Snake
A tiny, worm-like blind snake and the only known snake species that reproduces entirely by parthenogenesis, spreading globally in nursery soil.
Braminy Blind Snake
The world's most widely distributed snake species, a tiny, all-female burrower often mistaken for an earthworm and spread globally via potted plants.
Brazilian Coral Snake
A brightly ringed coral snake of southern South America's grasslands and forests, notable for its bold black-yellow-red banding and secretive lifestyle.
Brazilian Lancehead
A medium to large lancehead pit viper of central Brazil's savanna.
Brazilian Rainbow Boa
A vividly patterned constrictor famous for the iridescent sheen of its scales, which produces a rainbow-like shimmer in direct sunlight.