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.
Southern African Python
A large, powerfully built constrictor found across southern Africa, closely related to the African rock python but occupying more southerly range.
Calabar Burrowing Python
A stout, secretive burrowing snake of West and Central Africa whose blunt tail mimics its head as a defensive strategy against predators.
African Rock Python
The largest snake species in Africa, a massive constrictor found across the sub-Saharan savanna belt, capable of taking prey as large as antelope.
Dwarf Reticulated Python
An insular, reduced-size form of the reticulated python, exhibiting island dwarfism compared to mainland giants of the species.
Northwestern Carpet Python
A regional form of carpet python found across the Kimberley and adjacent northwestern Australia, patterned in variable brown and cream tones.
Darwin Carpet Python
A tropical carpet python population centered on the Darwin region of Australia's Top End, showing bold brown-and-cream blotched patterning.
Cape York Carpet Python
A tropical locality form of the widespread carpet python found on the Cape York Peninsula of far northern Queensland, Australia.
Aru Green Tree Python
A smaller-bodied island locality of the green tree python from the Aru Islands southwest of New Guinea.
Sorong Green Tree Python
A locality form of the green tree python from the Sorong area of New Guinea's Bird's Head Peninsula, prized for its vivid emerald-green adult coloration.
Top End Carpet Python
A broadly distributed population of the Darwin carpet python subspecies across the tropical Top End region of the Northern Territory.
Biak Green Tree Python
An island locality form of the green tree python from Biak Island in Cenderawasih Bay, often noted for bold blue speckling on an emerald-green body.
Wamena Green Tree Python
A high-elevation locality form of the green tree python from the Baliem Valley highlands near Wamena, one of the highest-altitude populations of the species.
Manokwari Green Tree Python
A locality form of the green tree python from the Manokwari area on the northern coast of the Bird's Head Peninsula.
Yapen Green Tree Python
An island locality of the green tree python from Yapen Island in Cenderawasih Bay off the northern coast of New Guinea.
Northern White-Lipped Python
The northern representative of the white-lipped python complex, found across the lowlands of northern New Guinea.
Jayapura Green Tree Python
A northern New Guinea locality of the green tree python from the coastal hills around Jayapura, the provincial capital of Papua.
Southern White-Lipped Python
The southern counterpart in the white-lipped python complex, distributed across the lowlands of southern New Guinea.
Irian Jaya Carpet Python
A New Guinea locality form of carpet python noted for its striking, high-contrast blotched pattern and relatively robust build.
Calabar Boa
A cylindrical, burrowing boa-like snake from West and Central Africa with a distinctive blunt tail used to confuse predators.
Mandarin Rat Snake
A strikingly patterned, secretive burrowing snake from East Asia known for its bold gray, black, and orange saddle markings.
Clifford's Snake
A robust, boldly blotched diadem snake found in sandy and rocky desert habitats from North Africa across the Middle East into Central and South Asia.
Katuali
A banded sea krait found only around the island of Niue in the South Pacific, known locally as the katuali.
Moila Snake
A robust, fast-moving desert snake of North Africa and Arabia, known as the 'false cobra' for its hood-flattening threat display.
Bornean Keeled Green Pit Viper
A venomous, strikingly patterned pit viper of Southeast Asian rainforests, closely related to the well-known Wagler's pit viper.