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 Whip Snake
A large, fast, and powerfully built colubrid of the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, often appearing nearly all black as an adult.
Tawny Cat Snake
A slender, pale tawny-colored cat snake found in forests from the eastern Himalayan foothills through Southeast Asia.
Rough Earth Snake
A tiny, plain-colored, fossorial colubrid common in leaf litter and gardens across the southeastern United States.
Gray Rat Snake
A large, blotched gray-and-brown constrictor that retains its juvenile pattern into adulthood, unlike its solid-black eastern relative.
Texas Coral Snake
A brightly ringed coral snake of Texas, Louisiana, and northeastern Mexico, closely related to and long considered a subspecies of the eastern coral snake.
Northern Brown Snake
A fast, alert elapid closely related to the western brown snake, common across arid and tropical northern Australia.
Tricolored Coral Snake
A coral snake whose common name directly reflects its bold red-black-yellow banded pattern.
Redback Coffee Snake
A small, secretive leaf-litter snake with a distinctive reddish stripe down its back, common in Central American forests.
Ring-Necked Snake
A small, secretive colubrid identified by a bright ring of color around its neck, common across much of North America.
Green Water Snake
A large, heavy-bodied North American watersnake with plain olive-green coloration, common in swamps and marshes of the southeastern U.S.
Argentine Coral Snake
A widely used common name for a monadal-patterned coral snake found across the drier regions of southern South America.
European Blind Snake
A small, worm-like burrowing snake with vestigial eyes, found across the Balkans and eastern Mediterranean, spending most of its life hidden underground.
Brown House Snake
A common, adaptable African colubrid frequently found around human dwellings, valued informally for its role in controlling rodent populations.
DeKay's Brown Snake
A small, common brown snake often found in gardens and urban lots, marked by a faint pale stripe bordered by dark spots.
Cape House Snake
A common, non-venomous constrictor found throughout southern Africa, frequently encountered near human settlements where it hunts rodents.
Grass Snake
A common, harmless European snake closely tied to wetlands and known for its distinctive yellow neck collar and bluffing defensive display.
Sonoran Gopher Snake
A desert-adapted gopher snake subspecies with a lighter, more contrasting pattern than its coastal relatives, common throughout the Sonoran Desert.
Herald Snake
A small, common African colubrid recognized by its reddish lips and defensive flattening display, generally considered harmless to humans despite being mildly venomous.
Mangrove Snake
A large, glossy black colubrid ringed with bright yellow bands, common in Southeast Asian wetlands and mangroves, with mild rear-fanged venom of little concern to humans.
Northern Water Snake
A heavy-bodied, aquatic colubrid often mistaken for a venomous cottonmouth, common around lakes, ponds, and rivers.
Mexican Hognose Snake
A stocky, upturned-snouted snake famous for its dramatic defensive bluff display, including hissing, hood-flattening, and death-feigning.
Concho Water Snake
A rare, narrow-range Texas water snake tied to rocky, flowing sections of the Concho and Colorado rivers.
Western Fox Snake
A stout, tan-and-brown blotched constrictor of the Midwest prairies, sometimes mistaken for a rattlesnake due to defensive tail vibration.
Braminy Blind Snake
The world's most widely distributed snake species, a tiny, all-female burrower often mistaken for an earthworm and spread globally via potted plants.