Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
Northern Pacific Rattlesnake
A widespread western rattlesnake found from forested foothills to coastal scrub, recognizable by its dark blotched pattern and prominent tail rattle.
Slender Racer
A slim, fast-moving whip snake found in dry, open habitats from the Balkans through the Middle East to Central Asia.
Bull Snake
A large, powerful colubrid famous for its loud hissing bluff display, often mistaken for a rattlesnake.
Desert Blind Snake
A tiny, worm-like burrowing snake of the American Southwest deserts with vestigial eyes hidden beneath translucent scales.
Grey Snake
A small, uncommon elapid of inland eastern Australia's floodplains and grasslands, closely related to the Marsh Snake.
Ravergier's Snake
A slender, fast-moving diurnal whip snake found across arid and semi-arid habitats from the eastern Mediterranean through the Caucasus into Central Asia.
Northern Brown Snake
A fast, alert elapid closely related to the western brown snake, common across arid and tropical northern Australia.
Prairie Rattlesnake
A widespread rattlesnake of the North American grasslands and high plains, well adapted to a broad range of elevations and cooler climates than many of its relatives.
Green Bush Snake
A slender, bright green African tree snake frequently seen in gardens and hedges.
Night Snake
A small, secretive, cat-eyed colubrid of arid western North America.
Coachwhip
A slender, exceptionally fast-moving colubrid named for its braided, whip-like tail pattern.
Marsh Snake
A moderately common small elapid of moist eastern Australian habitats, often found near water and marshy ground.
Sonoran Coral Snake
A small, brightly banded desert coral snake found in Arizona and northwestern Mexico, distinguished by its blunt black snout.
Angola Green Snake
A slender, bright green tree snake widespread across savanna and woodland of central and southern Africa.
Cape Tiger Snake
A regional form of tiger snake found on offshore islands and coastal areas, often smaller-bodied than mainland populations.
Arizona Coral Snake
A small desert-dwelling coral snake of the Sonoran Desert region, the only coral snake species in the American Southwest.
Grey's Mudsnake
A small, primitive sea snake specialized for soft mangrove mudflats along the coast of north-western Australia, the sole member of its genus.
Variable Sand Snake
A small burrowing desert snake closely related to the banded sand snake, showing variable banding intensity across its Sonoran Desert range.
White-Lipped Snake
A small, cold-tolerant elapid of cool southern Australian habitats, named for the pale scales bordering its upper lip.
Shark Bay Sea Snake
A regionally endemic sea snake restricted to the seagrass and reef habitats of Shark Bay in Western Australia.
Dwarf Sand Snake
One of the smallest members of the Psammophis genus, this diminutive sand snake inhabits savanna and grassland regions of southern and central Africa.
Namib Sand Snake
A desert-adapted sand snake endemic to the Namib region, built for speed across open sand and gravel plains.
Karoo Sand Snake
A slim, fast-moving sand snake adapted to the arid Karoo region of southern Africa, recognized by its streamlined build and alert daytime activity.
Olive Grass Snake
A large, fast, olive-colored African sand snake often seen actively hunting through grassland by day, closely related to other Psammophis species.