Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
Indigo Snake
The longest native snake in the United States, glossy blue-black and known for its calm demeanor.
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.
Eastern Green Mamba Bush Viper
An arboreal African viper with rough, keeled scales and variable green coloration, often mottled with yellow or blue tones.
Japanese Rat Snake
A common, blue-green to olive rat snake native to Japan, historically regarded as a benevolent house guardian in Japanese folklore.
Green Bush Viper
A small, arboreal African viper with rough spiny scales and a body color that varies from green to yellow or blue-green.
Great Lakes Bush Viper
A medium-sized arboreal viper found in montane forests near the African Great Lakes, with variable green, blue, or yellow coloration.
White-Lipped Island Pit Viper
A striking island pit viper found across the Lesser Sunda Islands, notable for its variable turquoise, blue, or yellow coloration.
Jameson's Mamba
A green, forest-dwelling mamba of Central and West Africa, distinguished from other green mambas by a dark blue-black tail tip.
Green Rat Snake
A bright green, arboreal colubrid of Southeast Asian rainforests, closely related to the red-tailed racer and well camouflaged in the forest canopy.
Red-Headed Krait
A large, vividly colored krait of Southeast Asian rainforests, notable for its glossy black body, bright red or orange head and tail, and thin blue vertebral stripe.