Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
Saw-Scaled Viper
A small viper found across the Middle East and South Asia, notable for producing a distinctive rasping sound by rubbing its scales together.
Large-Eyed Pit Viper
A green pit viper distinguished by unusually large eyes, found across forested regions of mainland Southeast Asia.
Common Saw-Scaled Viper
One of the 'Big Four' snakes of India, small in size and widespread.
Painted Saw-Scaled Viper
A brightly patterned desert viper of the Arabian Peninsula known for its distinctive warning display and rasping sound.
Egyptian Saw-Scaled Viper
A small viper known for producing a rasping sound by rubbing its serrated scales together.
Sochurek's Saw-Scaled Viper
A desert viper closely related to the Common Saw-Scaled Viper, recognized as a distinct species in some taxonomies.
Rough-Scaled Bush Viper
A striking arboreal viper covered in unusually long, upturned, spine-like scales that give it a shaggy, bristly appearance.
Sind Saw-Scaled Viper
A small desert viper known for producing a distinctive rasping warning sound by rubbing its serrated scales together.
Pit Viper
A diverse group of vipers defined by heat-sensing facial pits, including rattlesnakes, copperheads, and Asian bamboo vipers.
Central Asian Saw-Scaled Viper
A subspecies of saw-scaled viper adapted to the arid steppe and desert basins of Central Asia.
Rough-Scaled Python
A rarely seen python distinguished by unusually keeled, rough-textured scales, restricted to a small area of the Kimberley in Australia.
Rough-Scaled Snake
A distinctive elapid with unusually keeled scales, found in rainforests and wet forests of eastern Australia.
Sumatran Pit Viper
A large, striking green pit viper found in the rainforests of Sumatra and Borneo, notable for its vivid coloration and arboreal lifestyle.
Vogel's Pit Viper
A green pit viper of Indochinese forests, named in honor of German herpetologist Gernot Vogel.
Jumping Pit Viper
A stout, heavy-bodied terrestrial pit viper known for its rapid, forceful strikes that can propel part of its body off the ground.
Malayan Pit Viper
A medium-sized, heavy-bodied pit viper of Southeast Asia known for its distinctive triangular head markings.
Horseshoe Pit Viper
A pit viper of the Western Ghats named for horseshoe-shaped markings on its head.
Kinabalu Pit Viper
A montane green pit viper restricted to the high elevations of Mount Kinabalu in Borneo.
Salazar's Pit Viper
A recently described green pit viper from northeastern India, popularly noted for being named after a fictional Harry Potter character.
Phuket Pit Viper
A green pit viper native to the forests around Phuket in southern Thailand.
Schultze's Pit Viper
A green pit viper endemic to the Philippines, named after the naturalist Schultze.
Halys Pit Viper
A widespread Central Asian pit viper found across steppe, desert, and semi-arid habitats.
Guangxi Pit Viper
A stout forest pit viper found in the karst and montane forests of southern China and northern Vietnam.
Bornean Pit Viper
A green arboreal pit viper endemic to Borneo, common in lowland and hill forest.