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.
Stuart's Coral Snake
A Guatemalan highland coral snake named for herpetologist Laurence Stuart, showing bold red-black-yellow tricolor rings.
Coral Snake
A brightly ringed, highly venomous elapid known for the rhyme distinguishing it from harmless mimics: 'red touch yellow, kill a fellow.'
Desert Coral Snake
A Mexican Pacific coast coral snake adapted to dry tropical habitats, with bold red, black, and white/yellow tricolor rings.
Great Lakes Bush Viper
A medium-sized arboreal viper found in montane forests near the African Great Lakes, with variable green, blue, or yellow coloration.
Ringneck Snake
A small, widespread North American snake recognized by a bright yellow, orange, or cream neck ring against a dark, uniform body.
Grass Snake
A common, harmless European snake closely tied to wetlands and known for its distinctive yellow neck collar and bluffing defensive display.
Nayarit Coral Snake
A western Mexican coral snake found along the Pacific coast of Nayarit and Jalisco, marked by classic red-black-yellow banding.
Guatemalan Milk Snake
A vividly banded milk snake subspecies from southern Mexico and Guatemala, known for its bold red, black, and yellow tricolor pattern.
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.
Amur Rat Snake
A large, glossy black-and-yellow rat snake native to the temperate forests of the Russian Far East, China, and Korea, well adapted to cold winters.
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.
Eastern Coral Snake
A slender, brightly banded elapid of the southeastern United States, famous for its red-yellow-black ring pattern and the mnemonic rhyme used to distinguish it from harmless mimics.
Water Coral Snake
An unusually aquatic coral snake of the Amazon Basin, bearing classic red-black-yellow banding and a potent neurotoxic venom, but rarely encountered due to its semi-aquatic habits.
Pine Woods Snake
A small, secretive, yellowish-brown snake of pine flatwoods and hammocks in the southeastern coastal plain.
Stripe-bellied Sand Snake
A fast, alert diurnal sand snake widespread across savanna Africa, distinguished by dark stripes running along its yellowish underside.
Mustard-Bellied Snake
A small elapid named for its distinctive yellowish belly, found in a limited range of southeastern Australia.
Coastal Carpet Python
One of the largest carpet python subspecies, found along Australia's eastern seaboard with a variable olive-to-brown blotched pattern.
Spotted Bush Snake
A slender, bright green African tree snake marked with small dark speckles, commonly seen climbing through shrubs and buildings in search of frogs and lizards.
Eastern Rat Snake
A large, glossy black constrictor common across the eastern U.S., often seen climbing trees or barn rafters in search of rodents and birds.
Persian Whip Snake
A slender, fast-moving colubrid found across Iran and neighboring regions, typically marked with a subtle striped pattern and a pale yellowish underside.
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.
King Rat Snake
A large, powerfully built East Asian rat snake with strongly keeled scales, known for its yellowish crossbanding and its role as a natural predator of venomous snakes.
Banded Rock Rattlesnake
A small, colorful rattlesnake of rocky mountain slopes, known for its bold black or dark bands set against a bluish-gray to greenish body.
Egyptian Sand Boa
A stout, burrowing boa of arid African and Middle Eastern regions, easily recognized by its blunt tail, small eyes set high on the head, and habit of ambushing prey from beneath the sand.