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.
Black Swamp Snake
A small, glossy black semi-aquatic snake with a bright red-orange belly, found in southeastern wetlands.
Amazonian Coral Snake
A large tricolor coral snake of the Amazon rainforest with broad black, red, and white/yellow ring triads.
Ecuadorian Coral Snake
A coral snake native to Ecuador's lowland forests, displaying the classic red-black-yellow tricolor warning pattern.
Aurora House Snake
A small, non-venomous southern African snake named for the striking orange-red dorsal stripe reminiscent of an aurora glow.
Utah Milk Snake
A small tricolor milk snake subspecies with narrow red, black, and white/yellow bands found in the arid intermountain West.
Putumayo Coral Snake
A regional Amazonian coral snake named for the Putumayo River area, displaying vivid red, black, and pale tricolor rings.
Stuart's Coral Snake
A Guatemalan highland coral snake named for herpetologist Laurence Stuart, showing bold red-black-yellow tricolor rings.
Desert Coral Snake
A Mexican Pacific coast coral snake adapted to dry tropical habitats, with bold red, black, and white/yellow tricolor rings.
Nayarit Coral Snake
A western Mexican coral snake found along the Pacific coast of Nayarit and Jalisco, marked by classic red-black-yellow banding.
Guatemalan Milk Snake
A vividly banded milk snake subspecies from southern Mexico and Guatemala, known for its bold red, black, and yellow tricolor pattern.
Striped Coral Snake
One of the largest and most widespread South American coral snakes, boldly banded in red, black, and white, with medically significant neurotoxic venom.
Aesculapian False Coral Snake
A mildly venomous South American colubrid that mimics true coral snakes with bold red, black, and white banding.
New Mexico Milk Snake
A tricolor milk snake subspecies of the arid Southwest, with vivid red, black, and white banding across a slender body.
Cape Coral Snake
A small, brightly banded burrowing elapid of arid southern Africa, known for its bold red-and-black or coral pattern.
Water Coral Snake
An unusually aquatic coral snake of the Amazon Basin, bearing classic red-black-yellow banding and a potent neurotoxic venom, but rarely encountered due to its semi-aquatic habits.
Blue Coral Snake
A strikingly beautiful elapid with an iridescent blue-black body, red head and tail, and one of the most potent venoms among Asian elapids.
Paradise Flying Snake
A slender, brilliantly patterned colubrid famed for its ability to glide from tree to tree, marked with black scales speckled in green, yellow, and red.
Eastern Coral Snake
A slender, brightly banded elapid of the southeastern United States, famous for its red-yellow-black ring pattern and the mnemonic rhyme used to distinguish it from harmless mimics.
South American Coral Snake
A strikingly banded elapid of South American forests and wetlands, marked with the classic red-black-yellow triad pattern shared by many New World coral snakes.
Blue Malayan Coral Snake
A striking Southeast Asian elapid with an iridescent blue-black body, a bright red head and tail, and venom notable for producing unusually rapid effects.
Mexican Wandering Garter Snake
A wide-ranging highland garter snake of western Mexico, adaptable to a variety of montane stream and forest habitats.
Central Plains Milk Snake
A tricolor milk snake subspecies of the central US plains, closely resembling other regional milk snakes with red, black, and cream banding.
Banded Malaysian Coral Snake
A small, slender coral snake of Southeast Asian forests, marked with fine dark crossbands and a red underside, that spends most of its life hidden underground.
Coin-Marked Snake
A slender, fast-moving colubrid of the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, named for the rounded, coin-like dark blotches along its back.