Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
Eastern Indigo Snake
The longest native snake in North America, a glossy blue-black giant associated with gopher tortoise burrows.
Common Mole Snake
A large, powerfully built African snake specialized for hunting burrowing rodents, common across a wide range of southern African habitats.
Common Vine Snake
A slender, twig-mimicking African tree snake with exceptional camouflage and keyhole-shaped pupils.
Common Trinket Snake
A slender, attractively patterned colubrid widespread across the Indian subcontinent, sometimes confused with other species due to superficial similarities.
Common Bridal Snake
A small, slender nocturnal colubrid from South Asia with a delicate banded pattern.
Common Wolf Snake
A slender, nocturnal Asian colubrid with banding similar to that of kraits.
Common Kukri Snake
A small banded colubrid named for its curved, kukri-knife-shaped rear teeth used to slit open reptile eggs.
Common Cat Snake
A slender, patterned nocturnal snake found across the Indian subcontinent, often mistaken for a young viper due to its triangular head and vertical pupils.
Eastern Small-Eyed Snake
A small, glossy black nocturnal elapid widespread along the eastern Australian coast and ranges.
Common Purple-glossed Snake
A glossy, burrowing African snake with an iridescent purplish sheen, feeding largely on other snakes and reptiles beneath the soil surface.
Common Egg-Eating Snake
A slender African colubrid famed for a diet consisting almost entirely of bird eggs, which it swallows whole and crushes internally.
Eastern Kingsnake
A glossy black snake marked with narrow chain-like yellow or white bands, famed for preying on other snakes.
Common Mud Snake Malayan
A small, common freshwater mud snake found throughout Southeast Asia, frequently seen in rice paddies and slow-moving waters.
Eastern Copperhead
A copper-colored pit viper common across the eastern and central United States, known for its hourglass-shaped bands.
Common Smooth-Scaled Water Snake
A small, aquatic colubrid common in the rice paddies, ponds, and waterways of Southeast Asia.
Common Egg-eater
A remarkable African colubrid that feeds exclusively on bird eggs, using specialized vertebral spines in its throat to crack shells after swallowing them whole.
Common Slug-eater
A small African colubrid that feeds exclusively on slugs and snails.
Common Bronzeback
A slender, fast-moving, day-active tree snake with a bronze-toned back, common across gardens and forest edges of the Indian subcontinent.
Eastern Green Mamba
A slender, bright green, highly arboreal mamba of coastal East African forests, well camouflaged among foliage.
Common Adder
A small, widespread viper found across Europe and into northern Asia, notable for having the largest geographic range of any land snake species.
Common Saw-Scaled Viper
One of the 'Big Four' snakes of India, small in size and widespread.
Crowned Snake
The largest of the crowned snakes, a secretive nocturnal elapid of eastern Australian forests, named for its pale head marking.
Milk Snake
A boldly banded colubrid whose red, black, and pale banding resembles that of coral snakes across much of its range.
Hognose Snake
A theatrical, upturned-snouted colubrid famous for its dramatic bluffing displays, including hood-flattening, hissing, and playing dead.