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.
Ijima's Turtle-Headed Sea Snake
A docile, egg-eating sea snake from the Ryukyu Islands with a blunt, turtle-like head and reduced venom apparatus.
Biak Green Tree Python
An island locality form of the green tree python from Biak Island in Cenderawasih Bay, often noted for bold blue speckling on an emerald-green body.
Crocker's Sea Krait
A remarkable sea krait endemic to a single landlocked lake in the Solomon Islands, unique among sea kraits for living entirely in brackish water.
Western Shovelnose Snake
A small, boldly banded desert colubrid with a countersunk lower jaw and flattened snout adapted for swimming through loose desert sand.
Southern Hognose Snake
A small, upturned-snouted snake of sandy southeastern habitats, famous for its dramatic bluffing displays and playing dead.
Sinai Diadem Snake
A robust desert colubrid with a bold, saddle-like blotched pattern, known for its bluffing threat display and wide desert distribution.
Mexican Hognose Snake
A stocky, upturned-snouted snake famous for its dramatic defensive bluff display, including hissing, hood-flattening, and death-feigning.
Beaked Sea Snake
A highly venomous, fully aquatic sea snake often entangled in fishing nets, considered responsible for many sea snake bite incidents.
Awl-Headed Snake
A small desert colubrid with a pointed, awl-like snout used for burrowing, closely related to the crowned leaf-nosed snake and adapted to sandy habitats.
Green Vine Snake
A slender, bright green colubrid of the Indian subcontinent with an elongated pointed snout, blending seamlessly into foliage and rarely posing danger to humans.
Kofiau Green Tree Python
A rare island locality of the green tree python from Kofiau Island in the Raja Ampat archipelago, notable for a relatively small, isolated population.
Salazar's Pit Viper
A recently described green pit viper from northeastern India, popularly noted for being named after a fictional Harry Potter character.
Flat-Nosed Pit Viper
A little-known montane pit viper of northern Myanmar and adjacent regions, noted for its flattened snout profile.
Barbados Threadsnake
One of the smallest known snake species in the world, endemic to the small Caribbean island of Barbados and rediscovered in the early 2000s.
Southern Pacific Rattlesnake
A common rattlesnake of coastal and inland southern California, noted for its variable venom and dark diamond blotches.
Irian Jaya Carpet Python
A New Guinea locality form of carpet python noted for its striking, high-contrast blotched pattern and relatively robust build.
Spotted Skaapsteker
A slender, patterned southern African snake whose name derives from a folk belief linking it to livestock, though it is not dangerous to sheep or people.
Yellow Anaconda
A large, semi-aquatic constrictor of South American wetlands, smaller than its relative the green anaconda but still among the heaviest snakes in the Americas.
Kayaudi Dwarf Reticulated Python
A dwarf reticulated python population endemic to the small island of Kayuadi in Indonesia, notably reduced in size.
Habu
A large, aggressive pit viper endemic to Japan's Ryukyu Islands, notorious as the region's most medically significant snake.
Common Adder
A small, widespread viper found across Europe and into northern Asia, notable for having the largest geographic range of any land snake species.
Schokari Sand Racer
A slender, fast-moving desert racer common across North Africa and the Middle East, notable for its speed and daytime hunting habits.
Pygmy Copperhead
The smallest of the copperhead species, restricted to a limited range in South Australia including Kangaroo Island.
Red-necked Keelback
A rear-fanged Asian colubrid notable for the bright red-orange patch on its neck and genuinely potent venom.