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.
Western Worm Snake
A small, uniformly purplish-brown burrowing snake of the central plains, closely resembling its eastern relative.
Orange-Naped Snake
A slender elapid with a bold orange nape patch and black head, widespread across northern and eastern Australia.
Northeastern Hill Krait
A montane krait of the eastern Himalayan foothills, patterned with narrow pale crossbands on a dark body, and dangerously venomous.
Espirito Santo Rainbow Boa
A regional form of Brazilian rainbow boa from eastern Brazil known for its iridescent sheen and vivid patterning.
Pale-Headed Snake
An arboreal elapid with a pale head, found in woodlands of eastern Australia and often sheltering under loose tree bark.
Central American Indigo Snake
A large, powerful, non-venomous colubrid related to the eastern indigo snake, with a glossy dark tail and lighter forebody.
Stephens' Banded Snake
A boldly banded, tree-dwelling elapid found in coastal forests of eastern Australia.
Red-Bellied Snake
A tiny woodland colubrid best known for its bright red or orange belly, common across eastern North America.
Lesser Black Krait
A glossy black krait of the eastern Indian subcontinent and Himalayan foothills, dangerously venomous and prone to entering rural dwellings at night.
Rough-Scaled Snake
A distinctive elapid with unusually keeled scales, found in rainforests and wet forests of eastern Australia.
Bibron's Blind Snake
A small, worm-like burrowing blind snake widespread across southern and eastern Africa, with vestigial eyes and a smooth, glossy body.
Greater Black Krait
A large, uniformly dark krait of the eastern Himalayan foothills and adjacent lowlands, lacking the strong banding seen in many of its relatives.
Brown Snake DeKay's
A small, common brownish colubrid found in gardens, parks, and woodlands across eastern North America.
Red-Bellied Black Snake
A glossy black elapid with a vivid red or pink belly, common near waterways in eastern Australia.
Western Massasauga
A small prairie rattlesnake with a lighter, more contrasting blotched pattern than its eastern relative.
Usambara Bush Viper
A small, horn-scaled arboreal viper endemic to the Eastern Arc mountain forests of Tanzania, known for distinctive raised scales above the eyes.
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.
Golden-Crowned Snake
A secretive nocturnal elapid with a golden crown-like marking on the head, found in eastern Australian forests and gardens.
Muller's Crowned Snake
A small nocturnal elapid found in eastern Australia, recognizable by a pale crown-like marking on its head.
Hooded Malpolon
A large, fast rear-fanged snake of the western Mediterranean known for its hood-like defensive display, closely related to the Eastern Montpellier snake.
Desert Black Snake
A glossy black elapid of arid Middle Eastern deserts, closely related to cobras and possessing potent neurotoxic venom.
Timber Rattlesnake
A heavy-bodied woodland rattlesnake of the eastern United States, often showing dark chevron banding and a black tail.
Marsh Snake
A moderately common small elapid of moist eastern Australian habitats, often found near water and marshy ground.
Jerdon's Pit Viper
A high-altitude pit viper of the eastern Himalayas and adjacent hill country, marked with bold black and yellow banding.