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.
Common Slug-eater
A small, docile African colubrid that feeds exclusively on slugs and snails, completely harmless to humans.
Common Mock Viper
A small, viper-mimicking colubrid from Asian forests known for its stout body and viper-like defensive posture.
Common Trinket Snake
A slender, attractively patterned colubrid widespread across the Indian subcontinent, sometimes confused with more dangerous species due to superficial similarities.
Common Puff Adder
A widespread and heavy-bodied African viper responsible for more snakebite fatalities than any other African species, due to its abundance and cryptic camouflage.
Common Glossy Racer
A widespread, smooth-scaled racer with a glossy sheen, found across a broad swath of Neotropical habitats.
Northern Small-Eyed Snake
A small, secretive nocturnal elapid of tropical northern Australia with a pale head and glossy dark body.
Northern Emerald Tree Boa
A vividly green arboreal boa of the northern Amazon rainforest, famous for its bright coloration, prominent white markings, and elongated front teeth adapted for gripping birds and mammals.
Northern White-Lipped Python
The northern representative of the white-lipped python complex, found across the lowlands of northern New Guinea.
Northern Mangrove Sea Snake
A small sea snake found along northern Australia's extensive mangrove coastlines, adapted to tidal creek and estuarine habitats.
Northern Shovel-Nosed Snake
A small, banded burrowing elapid restricted to the arid sandy regions of northern and northwestern Australia.
Common Mud Snake Malayan
A small, common freshwater mud snake found throughout Southeast Asia, frequently seen in rice paddies and slow-moving waters.
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 Saw-Scaled Viper
One of the 'Big Four' medically important snakes of India, small in size but responsible for numerous serious snakebite cases.
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.
Kirtland's Snake
A small, secretive wetland snake with a reddish belly marked by bold black spots, now rare across much of its midwestern range.
Queen Snake
A slender, semi-aquatic snake of clean, rocky streams that feeds almost exclusively on freshly molted crayfish.
Graham's Crayfish Snake
A slender, striped aquatic snake of the central U.S. plains and prairies that feeds heavily on crayfish.
Glossy Crayfish Snake
A glossy, dark-bodied wetland snake of the southeastern coastal plain that specializes in eating crayfish.
Striped Crayfish Snake
A small, boldly striped aquatic snake of Florida's wetlands, with a bright yellow belly stripe and a diet centered on crayfish.
Checkered Keelback
One of the most common water-associated snakes in Asia, recognized by its checkerboard pattern and strongly keeled scales, frequently seen near rice paddies and ponds.
Viperine Snake
A harmless aquatic colubrid from southwestern Europe and North Africa whose zigzag pattern mimics that of true vipers.
Olive Keelback
A drab, olive-toned freshwater colubrid common in ponds, ditches, and paddies across South Asia.
Striped Keelback
A common, slender colubrid with pale stripes along the back, frequently found near water and farmland across South Asia.
Bockadam
A common brackish-water snake of Asian mangroves and estuaries, feeding mainly on fish and known for its dog-like snout.