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 Adder
A small, widespread viper found across Europe and into northern Asia, notable for having the largest geographic range of any land snake species.
Katuali
A banded sea krait found only around the island of Niue in the South Pacific, known locally as the katuali.
Brooke's Sea Snake
A sea snake named for the historic 'White Rajahs' of Sarawak, found in coastal waters around Borneo and neighboring Southeast Asian regions.
Southeastern Green Snake
A slender, bright green North American snake with keeled scales, well known as a gentle, harmless resident of shrubs and vines.
Duberria Lutrix
A small, harmless African colubrid known scientifically as Duberria lutrix, specialized in eating slugs and snails.
Mandarin Rat Snake
A strikingly patterned, secretive burrowing snake from East Asia known for its bold gray, black, and orange saddle markings.
Moila Snake
A robust, fast-moving desert snake of North Africa and Arabia, known as the 'false cobra' for its hood-flattening threat display.
Spine-Bellied Sea Snake
A stout, small-headed sea snake with distinctly keeled belly scales, common in shallow tropical and subtropical waters and frequently caught as bycatch by trawlers.
Tiger Keelback
A rear-fanged East Asian colubrid known for sequestering toad toxins in nuchal glands and for its medically significant venom.
Elegant Bronzeback
A vividly colored, slender tree snake of Southeast Asian rainforests, known for its metallic bronze back and striking blue-and-black flanks.
Russell's Viper
One of Asia's most medically significant vipers, known for its striking chain-like pattern and potent venom.
Dwarf Pipe Snake
A tiny, rarely seen fossorial snake from Southeast Asia representing one of the most poorly known snake families in the world.
Golden Tree Snake
A slender, arboreal colubrid of South and Southeast Asia known for its ability to glide between trees, marked with black speckling over a golden-green body.
Eastern Indigo Snake
The longest native snake in North America, a glossy blue-black giant known for its docile nature and association with gopher tortoise burrows.
Bornean Keeled Green Pit Viper
A venomous, strikingly patterned pit viper of Southeast Asian rainforests, closely related to the well-known Wagler's pit viper.
Bullsnake
A large, powerful North American colubrid known for its loud hissing bluff displays and role as a major rodent predator.
Blood Python
A stout, non-venomous python of Southeast Asia known for its short, heavy build and rich reddish or blood-colored patterning.
Cuban Dwarf Boa
A small, thick-bodied Cuban endemic known for feigning death and even releasing blood from its eyes as a dramatic defense.
Machete Savane
A large, strikingly patterned black-and-yellow colubrid found from Mexico to Argentina, known locally as the Machete Savane and famed for its speed and bold temperament.
Jamaican Boa
Jamaica's largest native snake, a non-venomous constrictor known locally as the 'yellow snake' for its coloration, and considered vulnerable due to introduced predators.
Erabu Sea Krait
A banded amphibious sea krait from Japan's Ryukyu Islands, known for coming ashore to digest food, rest, and lay eggs, and long featured in local island culture.
Many-Banded Krait
A slender, black-and-white banded krait of East and Southeast Asia with venom among the most potent of any land snake, well known in the herpetological and medical literature.
Malayan Pit Viper
A medium-sized, heavy-bodied pit viper of Southeast Asia known for its distinctive triangular head markings and its role in significant numbers of snakebite cases in the region.
Pacific Gopher Snake
A large, heavy-bodied colubrid of the Pacific coast known for its loud hiss and defensive tail-vibrating display that often leads to mistaken identity as a rattlesnake.