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.
Corn Snake
A slender, brightly patterned North American rat snake, among the most popular and recognizable non-venomous snakes.
Common Cat Snake
A slender, patterned nocturnal snake found across the Indian subcontinent, often mistaken for a young viper due to its triangular head and vertical pupils.
Cape File Snake
A distinctive African colubrid with unusually rough, file-like body scales and a specialized diet that includes other snakes, notably venomous species.
Rosen's Snake
A small, secretive elapid of arid Australia, in the same genus as the curl snake.
Smooth Snake
A secretive, smooth-scaled European colubrid often mistaken for a viper, notable for constricting prey including other reptiles.
Dwarf Sea Snake
A tiny, slender sea snake with an unusually small head, found in muddy coastal waters of the Gulf of Thailand.
Red Whip Snake
A slender, reddish-toned whip snake found in arid regions of the Middle East, recognized by its fast movement and warm coloration.
Cape Tiger Snake
A regional form of tiger snake found on offshore islands and coastal areas, often smaller-bodied than mainland populations.
Gray Rat Snake
A large, blotched gray-and-brown constrictor that retains its juvenile pattern into adulthood, unlike its solid-black eastern relative.
Dusky Sea Snake
A small, dark-colored sea snake with a restricted range in Western Australian reef waters, of conservation concern due to sharp historical population declines.
Curl Snake
A small, dull-colored elapid of Australia's arid interior known for curling into a tight coil when threatened.
Fiji Snake
A rare, burrowing elapid endemic to Viti Levu in Fiji, and the only terrestrial venomous snake native to the islands.
Grey Snake
A small, uncommon elapid of inland eastern Australia's floodplains and grasslands, closely related to the Marsh Snake.
Worm Snake
A tiny, glossy, worm-like colubrid of the eastern United States that spends nearly all its life burrowed underground in loose soil and leaf litter.
Dunmall's Snake
A rare, secretive elapid of inland brigalow woodland in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales.
Bighead Sea Snake
A sea snake with a proportionally oversized head, found in coastal waters of northern Australia and the Arafura Sea.
Cape Wolf Snake
A small, nocturnal African colubrid named for its enlarged, fang-like front teeth used to grip smooth-scaled reptile prey such as lizards and other snakes.
Olive House Snake
A plain, uniformly colored non-venomous snake from southern Africa often found near water and moist habitats.
Night Snake
A small, secretive, cat-eyed colubrid of arid western North America that is rear-fanged but harmless to humans.
Salt Marsh Snake
A slender water snake specialized for life in coastal salt marshes and mangrove habitats.
Tiger Rat Snake
A large, boldly patterned tropical colubrid, striking in appearance and known for its speed and alertness.
Slender Sea Snake
A slim-bodied sea snake found in tropical Indo-Pacific waters, with a tiny head and greatly elongated, thin forebody.
Tawny Cat Snake
A slender, pale tawny-colored cat snake found in forests from the eastern Himalayan foothills through Southeast Asia.
Ceylon Cat Snake
A small, reddish-brown cat snake endemic to Sri Lanka and adjacent southern India, active at night in forested and rural habitats.