Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
King's Sea Snake
A large-headed, robust sea snake found in the coastal waters of northern Australia, notable for its thick body and small tail.
Estuarine Sea Snake
A sea snake specialized for life in murky estuarine and river-mouth waters across the Indo-West Pacific, tolerant of reduced salinity.
Collared Sea Snake
A patterned sea snake with a distinctive dark collar marking behind the head, found in coastal waters of the Bay of Bengal and northern Indian Ocean.
Slender Sea Snake
A slim-bodied sea snake found in tropical Indo-Pacific waters, with a tiny head and greatly elongated, thin forebody.
Viperine Sea Snake
One of the largest and most heavily built sea snakes, with a viper-like thick body and disproportionately large head.
Anomalous Sea Snake
A sea snake named for its unusual combination of scale and morphological traits, found in coastal waters of the northern Indian Ocean.
Dwarf Sea Snake
A tiny, slender sea snake with an unusually small head, found in muddy coastal waters of the Gulf of Thailand.
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.
Yellow-bellied Liophis
A widespread South American colubrid with a bright yellow belly, often found near wetlands and grasslands.
Yellow-spotted Keelback
A small stream-associated colubrid marked with yellow spotting along a dark body, found across South and Southeast Asian hill forests.
Yellow-Naped Snake
A small elapid marked with a pale yellow nape patch, found in woodland habitats of eastern Queensland.
Chinese Sea Snake
One of the larger and more widely distributed true sea snakes, recognizable by its bold black and yellow-green banding, ranging across coastal Asian waters.
Wall's Sea Snake
A little-known sea snake from the northern Indian Ocean, named after herpetologist Frank Wall who described many South Asian reptiles.
Marbled Sea Snake
A small sea snake specialized for feeding on fish eggs rather than active prey.
Elegant Sea Snake
A large, robust sea snake native to Australian waters, patterned with broad dark bands that fade with age, often found in reef and estuarine habitats.
Lambert's Sea Snake
A moderately sized sea snake native to the Gulf of Thailand, closely related to the large-headed sea snake and named after a naturalist collector.
Annulated Sea Snake
A widespread, boldly banded sea snake with alternating dark and pale rings, common in shallow coastal and estuarine waters across Asia.
Olive Sea Snake
A common sea snake of Indo-Pacific coral reefs, known for its curious behavior toward divers and olive-brown coloration.
Jerdon's Sea Snake
A small, lesser-known sea snake found in the coastal waters of South and Southeast Asia, distinguished by its small size and relatively uniform coloration.
Horned Sea Snake
A distinctive sea snake covered in small spiny scale projections, especially around the head, giving it a rough, thorny appearance unique among sea snakes.
Mosaic Sea Snake
A slender, brightly patterned sea snake with a mosaic-like arrangement of dark blotches, found in shallow estuarine and coastal waters of Asia.
Spectacled Sea Snake
A slender, pale-banded sea snake named for the ring-like markings around its eyes, inhabiting shallow tropical seas of the Indian Ocean and western Pacific.
MacDowell's Sea Snake
A rarely documented sea snake from the Bay of Bengal region, named in honor of a herpetologist who studied elapid snakes.
Kloss's Sea Snake
A small, banded sea snake found in coastal waters of the Gulf of Thailand region, named after British naturalist Cecil Boden Kloss.