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.
Children's Python
One of the smallest python species, native to northern Australia, and named not after children but after zoologist John George Children.
Spotted Python
A small, slender Australian python patterned with irregular dark brown blotches on a pale background, often found near rocky waterways.
Papuan Python
One of the largest pythons of New Guinea, a powerful constrictor capable of preying on sizeable mammals.
Stimson's Python
A small, hardy python well adapted to Australia's dry interior, one of the smallest pythons in the world.
Pygmy Python
The world's smallest python species, a tiny constrictor restricted to a small region of northwestern Australia.
Water Python
A glossy, iridescent python closely tied to Australia's tropical wetlands, famous for its rainbow sheen in sunlight.
Timor Python
A slender relative of the reticulated python complex, restricted to Timor and neighboring islands in Indonesia.
Macklot's Python
An island-dwelling relative of the Water Python, found across Indonesia's Lesser Sunda archipelago.
Calabar Python
A small, cylindrical burrowing python from Africa with a blunt tail used to mimic its head as a defense strategy.
Blood Python
A stout, non-venomous python of Southeast Asia known for its short, heavy build and rich reddish or blood-colored patterning.
Woma Python
A non-venomous python of Australia's arid interior, unusual among pythons for lacking heat-sensing labial pits.
Molucca Python
A reticulated python population native to the Moluccan islands of Indonesia, sharing the intricate net-like patterning typical of the species.
Palmerston Carpet Python
A locality of the Darwin carpet python subspecies from the Palmerston area near Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory.
Mexican Burrowing Python
A rare, primitive burrowing snake from Mexico and Central America, the sole member of its own family and a close relative of true pythons.
Black-Headed Python
A striking Australian python with a glossy jet-black head and neck contrasting sharply with a banded tan-and-brown body.
Green Tree Python
A vividly green, non-venomous arboreal python of New Guinea and northern Australia, known for its striking resemblance to the emerald tree boa of South America.
White-Lipped Python
A group of glossy, dark-bodied New Guinea pythons named for the pale scales lining their upper jaw.
Selayer Reticulated Python
A regional dwarf population of the reticulated python native specifically to Selayar Island off Sulawesi.
Reticulated Python
The longest snake species in the world, a Southeast Asian constrictor famed for its intricate, iridescent pattern.
Diamond Python
A cool-climate subspecies of carpet python from southeastern Australia, marked with diamond-shaped clusters of pale scales on a black background.
Bredl's Python
A rich reddish-brown python endemic to the arid ranges of central Australia, closely related to the carpet pythons.
Angolan Python
A small African python from the arid regions of Angola and Namibia, marked with a bold pattern of dark blotches on a lighter background.
Ball Python
A small, docile, non-venomous python native to West and Central Africa, famous for curling into a tight ball as a defensive posture.
Olive Python
One of Australia's largest snakes, a plain olive-brown python found around rocky gorges and river systems in the continent's arid and tropical north.