Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
Annulated Sea Snake
A widespread, boldly banded sea snake with alternating dark and pale rings, common in shallow coastal and estuarine waters across Asia.
Barred Wolf Snake
A small, sharp-toothed colubrid with narrow crossbands, frequently confused with kraits.
Milk Snake
A boldly banded colubrid whose red, black, and pale banding resembles that of coral snakes across much of its range.
Dwarf Pipe Snake
A tiny, rarely seen fossorial snake from Southeast Asia representing one of the most poorly known snake families in the world.
Common Wolf Snake
A slender, nocturnal Asian colubrid with banding similar to that of kraits.
Calico Snake
A common name for the tricolor Neotropical snake also called the false coral snake, prized for its striking patchwork of red, black, and cream bands.
Chinese Sea Snake
One of the larger and more widely distributed true sea snakes, recognizable by its bold black and yellow-green banding, ranging across coastal Asian waters.
Blue Malayan Coral Snake
A striking Southeast Asian elapid with an iridescent blue-black body and a bright red head and tail.
Belcher's Sea Snake
A fully aquatic sea snake, rarely encountered by people.
Black-Ringed Mangrove Snake
A boldly ringed sea snake associated with mangrove-lined coastlines of the northern Bay of Bengal.
Salt Marsh Snake
A slender water snake specialized for life in coastal salt marshes and mangrove habitats.
Olive House Snake
A plain, uniformly colored snake from southern Africa often found near water and moist habitats.
Aquatic Garter Snake
A strongly aquatic garter snake of Pacific coast streams and rivers, closely tied to clean flowing water.
Iberian Grass Snake
A water-associated colubrid endemic to the Iberian Peninsula and parts of northwestern Africa, closely related to other grass snakes.
Tiger Snake
An Australian elapid known for its banded pattern and flattened-neck display.
Half-striped Wolf Snake
A small East Asian wolf snake with incomplete banding that fades along the body.
Muller's Snake
A small banded burrowing elapid found in arid regions of western and central Australia.
Barred Grass Snake
A water-loving colubrid of Western Europe, closely related to the grass snake and often showing dark vertical barring along the flanks.
Western Ribbon Snake
A slender, fast-moving striped snake closely tied to water, ranging from the central US south through Mexico into Central America.
Neckband Snake
A small, slender colubrid known for a banded pattern that abruptly changes partway down the body, and a tail that can detach.
Coral Pipe Snake
A brightly banded red-and-black burrowing snake from the Amazon, resembling coral snakes in pattern.
Sundevall's Garter Snake
A small, secretive African garter snake with a banded pattern, related to cobras, with a reclusive, burrowing lifestyle.
Mexican Milk Snake
A tricolor banded milk snake native to northeastern Mexico and southern Texas, with a coral snake-like appearance.
Pueblan Milk Snake
A vividly banded milk snake native to south-central Mexico, known for its bold tricolor pattern.