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.
Caspian Whip Snake
One of Europe's largest snakes, a powerful and fast-moving colubrid found across the Balkans, Caucasus, and into Western Asia.
Ornate Shieldtail Snake
A small, glossy burrowing snake from the Western Ghats of India with a distinctive hardened, shield-like tail tip.
Bombay Sea Snake
A regionally documented sea snake of the western Indian coast, associated with the shallow waters of the Arabian Sea near Mumbai.
Beddome's Coral Snake
A small, secretive coral snake endemic to the rainforests of the Western Ghats in southern India, named after naturalist Richard Beddome.
Bibron's Coral Snake
A small, elusive coral snake endemic to the Western Ghats of southern India, named after French herpetologist Gabriel Bibron.
Nelson's Milk Snake
A boldly banded milk snake subspecies from western Mexico, featuring wide red bands and narrow black-and-white borders.
Barred Grass Snake
A harmless, water-loving colubrid of Western Europe, closely related to the grass snake and often showing dark vertical barring along the flanks.
Ringed Brown Snake
One of the smallest members of the brown snake genus, distinguished by dark banding around its body, found in arid central and western Australia.
Beddome's Cat Snake
A slender, forest-dwelling cat snake endemic to the Western Ghats of southern India, named in honor of British naturalist Richard Henry Beddome.
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.
Sinaloan Milk Snake
A brightly banded, non-venomous milk snake from western Mexico, known for its vivid red, black, and white/yellow tricolor rings.
Slender Coral Snake
A very thin, small-bodied coral snake of the western Amazon, distinguished by its unusually elongated, worm-like proportions and fine banding pattern.
Water Snake
A heavy-bodied, aquatic colubrid frequently mistaken for venomous cottonmouths.
Liana Snake
A vividly patterned, slender arboreal snake of Amazonian and Central American forests, closely related to the red vine snake.
Ladder Snake
A large, robust Iberian colubrid named for the ladder-like pattern seen in juveniles, which fades into two dark dorsal stripes in adults.
Coral Snake
A brightly ringed, highly venomous elapid known for the rhyme distinguishing it from harmless mimics: 'red touch yellow, kill a fellow.'
Sea Snake
A fully marine elapid adapted for life at sea, with a paddle-like tail and no need to return to land.
Diadem Snake
A robust desert colubrid with striking patterned coloration, found across arid regions from North Africa to South Asia.
Mulga Snake
One of Australia's largest venomous snakes, the Mulga Snake is a robust, widespread elapid capable of delivering a large volume of venom.
Leopard Snake
A strikingly patterned, harmless colubrid from southern Europe often regarded as one of the continent's most beautiful snakes.
Flying Snake
A slender tree-dwelling colubrid capable of gliding between trees by flattening its body into a concave, wing-like shape.
Neckband Snake
A small, slender colubrid known for a banded pattern that abruptly changes partway down the body, and a tail that can detach.
Curl Snake
A small, dull-colored elapid of Australia's arid interior known for curling into a tight coil when threatened.
Emerald Snake
A vividly emerald-green, non-venomous African forest snake known for its keeled scales and glossy iridescence.