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-Necked Spitting Cobra
A widespread and highly adaptable African cobra famous for accurately spraying venom from its fangs as a defensive measure.
Coastal Rosy Boa
A docile, small desert-and-scrub boa from coastal Southern California, recognized by its three longitudinal stripes.
Javelin Sand Boa
A stocky, sand-dwelling boa found from the Balkans and North Africa through the Middle East, named for its pointed, javelin-like snout.
Caspian Cobra
A highly venomous cobra of Central and Southwest Asia's arid regions, adapted to some of the northernmost cobra ranges in the world.
Samar Cobra
A spitting cobra native to the central and southern Philippines, closely related to the Philippine cobra of Luzon but recognized as a distinct species.
Northern Black-tailed Rattlesnake
A robust, calm-tempered rattlesnake of rocky desert and mountain terrain, easily recognized by its uniformly dark tail.
Black-tailed Rattlesnake
A calm-tempered rattlesnake of the southwestern deserts and mountains, easily identified by its solid black tail.
Sidewinder
A small desert rattlesnake famous for its unique sideways locomotion, which minimizes contact with scorching sand.
Yellow-Lipped Sea Krait
A boldly banded, air-breathing sea krait of Indo-Pacific coral reefs and coastlines, highly venomous but generally docile.
Tiger Rattlesnake
A small desert rattlesnake with numerous fine crossbands and a proportionally small head but disproportionately potent venom.
Yellow-spotted Keelback
A small stream-associated colubrid marked with yellow spotting along a dark body, found across South and Southeast Asian hill forests.
Black Tree Cobra
A slender, arboreal West African forest cobra closely related to Gold's tree cobra, marked by its uniform blackish coloration.
Portuguese Viper
A small viper of the Iberian Peninsula and northwestern Africa, recognizable by a soft nasal appendage similar to its close relatives.
Egyptian Cobra
A large, highly venomous cobra widespread across Africa, historically significant in ancient Egyptian culture and iconography.
Blomberg's Tree Boa
A slender, less commonly encountered tree boa native to western Ecuador and Colombia, named after Swedish explorer Rolf Blomberg.
Sochurek's Saw-Scaled Viper
A medically important desert viper closely related to the Common Saw-Scaled Viper, recognized as a distinct species in some taxonomies.
Rhinoceros Viper
A strikingly patterned African viper with distinctive horn-like scales on its snout, known for stunning geometric coloration.
Indian Sand Boa
A robust, two-headed-looking burrowing boa from South Asia, prized historically for folklore and traditional beliefs about its blunt tail.
Indochinese Spitting Cobra
A mottled gray-and-black spitting cobra common across mainland Southeast Asia, frequently encountered in and around rural villages.
Panamanian Dwarf Boa
A small arboreal dwarf boa closely associated with Panama's tropical forests, sharing much of its biology with the Central American Dwarf Boa.
Emerald Tree Boa
A vivid green, arboreal boa of the Amazon rainforest, prized for its striking coloration and specialized ambush-hunting posture.
Red River Krait
A recently described krait from the Red River basin of northern Vietnam and southern China, banded black and white and dangerously venomous.
Black Spitting Cobra
A uniformly glossy black spitting cobra found in the arid western regions of southern Africa, once considered a color form of the zebra spitting cobra.
Field's Horned Viper
A small desert viper of the Middle East recognized by hornlike scales above the eyes, adapted for a burrowing, sand-dwelling lifestyle.