Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
Black Swamp Snake
A small, glossy black semi-aquatic snake with a bright red-orange belly, found in southeastern wetlands.
Striped Coral Snake
One of the largest and most widespread South American coral snakes, boldly banded in red, black, and white.
Aurora House Snake
A small southern African snake named for the striking orange-red dorsal stripe reminiscent of an aurora glow.
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.
Blue Coral Snake
A strikingly beautiful elapid with an iridescent blue-black body and red head and tail.
Stuart's Coral Snake
A Guatemalan highland coral snake named for herpetologist Laurence Stuart, showing bold red-black-yellow tricolor rings.
Putumayo Coral Snake
A regional Amazonian coral snake named for the Putumayo River area, displaying vivid red, black, and pale tricolor rings.
Utah Milk Snake
A small tricolor milk snake subspecies with narrow red, black, and white/yellow bands found in the arid intermountain West.
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.
Lake Cronin Snake
A rare and little-known elapid known only from a small area of southwestern Australia near Lake Cronin.
Water Coral Snake
An unusually aquatic coral snake of the Amazon Basin, bearing classic red-black-yellow banding, but rarely encountered due to its semi-aquatic habits.
Eastern Coral Snake
A slender, brightly banded elapid of the southeastern United States, famous for its red-yellow-black ring pattern.
Dubois's Sea Snake
A reef-dwelling sea snake of northern Australian waters known for its uniform coloration.
Honduran Milk Snake
One of the largest milk snakes, native to Central America and known for its wide, vivid banding.
Rossman's Garter Snake
A little-known garter snake from western Mexico, named after herpetologist Douglas Rossman.
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.
Scarce Wolf Snake
A rarely encountered, small banded wolf snake known from limited localities in the Himalayan foothill region.
Common Garter Snake
One of the most widespread and familiar snakes in North America, known for its longitudinal stripes and highly variable coloration.
Dwarf Beaked Snake
A tiny, patterned nocturnal snake of arid southern Africa, known for its spotted body and slightly upturned snout.
Battersby's Green Snake
A little-known, slender green colubrid from Central and East African forests, closely related to other bush snakes.
Brahminy Blind Snake
A tiny, worm-like blind snake and the only known snake species that reproduces entirely by parthenogenesis, spreading globally in nursery soil.
Dwarf Pipe Snake
A tiny, rarely seen fossorial snake from Southeast Asia representing one of the most poorly known snake families in the world.