Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
Rough-Scaled Sand Boa
A stout, blunt-tailed burrowing boa from South Asia with a bold, blotched pattern often mistaken for a viper.
Guatemalan Palm Pit Viper
An arboreal green pit viper of Central American highland forests, closely related to other palm pit vipers of the region.
Zayu Mountain Pit Viper
A little-known, regionally endemic pit viper from the mountainous borderlands of southeastern Tibet.
Wetar Island Pit Viper
An island-endemic pit viper restricted to Wetar Island in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia.
Chasen's Mountain Pit Viper
A small, stout, terrestrial mountain pit viper endemic to the highland forests of Borneo.
Flat-Nosed Pit Viper
A little-known montane pit viper of northern Myanmar and adjacent regions, noted for its flattened snout profile.
Hump-Nosed Pit Viper
A small pit viper of southern India and Sri Lanka, notable for its upturned, hump-like snout.
Chinese Mountain Pit Viper
A stout, ground-dwelling pit viper of montane forests across southern China and Southeast Asia.
Godman's Montane Pit Viper
A small, high-elevation pit viper of Central American cloud forests, adapted to cool montane climates.
Mexican Jumping Pit Viper
A thick-bodied Mexican relative of the Jumping Pit Viper, sharing the same rapid, forceful strike behavior.
Siamese Peninsula Pit Viper
A green pit viper of the Thai-Malay Peninsula, part of a complex of closely related arboreal pitvipers.
Philippine Temple Pit Viper
A brightly patterned arboreal pit viper found across the Philippines and neighboring islands.
Rainforest Hognosed Pit Viper
A small, well-camouflaged terrestrial pit viper of Central and South American rainforests, named for its upturned snout.
Redtail Bamboo Pit Viper
A slender green bamboo pit viper of South and Southeast Asia, named for the reddish tail found in many individuals.
White-Lipped Pit Viper
A common bright green pit viper of South and Southeast Asian forests, easily recognized by its pale lower lip.
Slender Hognosed Pit Viper
A slender terrestrial pit viper of Pacific dry forest habitats in Central America, related to other hognosed pit vipers.
Spot-Tailed Pit Viper
A slender green pit viper of peninsular India, distinguished by a distinctively marked, spotted tail.
Brown-Spotted Pit Viper
A slender brown pit viper with a chain of dark blotches, found across a wide swath of South and East Asia.
Truong Son Pit Viper
A small, brown terrestrial pit viper endemic to the misty Annamite mountains along the Vietnam-Laos border.
Godman's Mountain Pit Viper
A stout, short-tailed pit viper of Asian highland forests with variable earthy brown patterning.
Sri Lankan Pit Viper
A small, well-camouflaged pit viper.
Gumprecht's Green Pit Viper
A green pit viper of mainland Southeast Asia named after herpetologist Andreas Gumprecht.
Central Asian Pit Viper
A pit viper of the arid and semi-arid landscapes of Central Asia, closely related to the Halys pit viper.
Cameron Highlands Pit Viper
A montane green pit viper endemic to the cool cloud forests of the Cameron Highlands in Malaysia.