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.
Marbled Sea Snake
A small sea snake with reduced fangs and greatly diminished venom, specialized for feeding on fish eggs rather than active prey, making it functionally harmless to humans.
Montane Trinket Snake
A regional highland form of the common trinket snake found in the hill tracts of peninsular India, marked by a distinctive patterning adapted to its cooler, elevated habitat.
White-spotted Cat Snake
A slender, marbled cat snake often marked with pale flecks, found in the forests of Southeast Asia.
Butler's Garter Snake
A small garter snake of the Great Lakes region, notable for its short head and worm-hunting habits.
Turtle-Headed Sea Snake
A small, docile reef sea snake specialized for feeding exclusively on fish eggs, with reduced venom and fangs.
Dumeril's Coral Snake
A tricolor coral snake of humid forests in northern South America, named for French naturalist Auguste Dumeril.
Highland Garter Snake
A cold-tolerant garter snake found at high elevations in central Mexico's mountain grasslands and pine forests.
Cross-marked Sand Snake
A small, slender southern African sand snake named for the distinctive cross- or arrow-shaped marking on its head and neck.
Eastern Hognose Snake
A harmless-to-humans, theatrical colubrid famous for flattening its neck like a cobra and playing dead when threatened.
Southern Hognose Snake
A small, upturned-snouted snake of sandy southeastern habitats, famous for its dramatic bluffing displays and playing dead.
Mexican Hognose Snake
A stocky, upturned-snouted snake famous for its dramatic defensive bluff display, including hissing, hood-flattening, and death-feigning.
Brazilian Coral Snake
A brightly ringed coral snake of southern South America's grasslands and forests, notable for its bold black-yellow-red banding and secretive lifestyle.
Cape Beaked Snake
A blunt-snouted, burrowing blind snake from southern Africa named for its distinctive beaked rostral scale.
Red-Bellied Snake
A tiny woodland colubrid best known for its bright red or orange belly, common across eastern North America.
Dubois's Sea Snake
A reef-dwelling sea snake of northern Australian waters known for its uniform coloration and potent venom.
Shield-Nosed Snake
A small, thick-bodied elapid of southern Africa named for its enlarged, shield-like rostral scale used for burrowing.
Western Whip Snake
A fast, alert colubrid of southern Europe known for its bold yellow-and-black pattern and defensive temperament.
Balkan Whip Snake
A slender, fast-moving colubrid common across the Balkans, known for its alert temperament and rapid, jerky movements.
Sharp-Tailed Snake
A small, secretive Pacific coast colubrid named for the sharp, spine-like tip of its tail, and a specialized predator of slugs.
Coin-Marked Snake
A slender, fast-moving colubrid of the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, named for the rounded, coin-like dark blotches along its back.
Tropical Hognose Snake
A stout, upturned-snouted colubrid known for its dramatic bluffing displays when threatened.
Kerala Shieldtail Snake
A regionally restricted burrowing snake from the state of Kerala in southern India, known for its reddish-marked underside.
Venezuelan Coral Snake
A tricolor coral snake of Venezuela's lowlands and llanos, notable for evenly spaced black rings of roughly equal width to the red bands.
Peruvian Desert Coral Snake
A rare true coral snake adapted to arid coastal valleys of northern Peru, unusual for the group's typical forest habitat.