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.
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.
Little Spotted Snake
A tiny, faintly spotted elapid of inland grasslands, closely related to the little whip snake.
Spotted Wolf Snake
A small, spotted South Asian wolf snake with enlarged front teeth used to grip prey, harmless to humans.
Spotted Harlequin Snake
A small, brightly patterned southern African elapid with a slender body and boldly spotted coloration, mimicking more dangerous coral snake relatives.
Spotted Black Snake
A robust black snake with fine speckling, found in the inland woodlands and floodplains of southeastern Australia.
Spotted Whip Snake
A fast, alert colubrid with a row of dark spots or blotches along its back, common in arid and semi-arid habitats across Central and Southwest Asia.
Spotted Skaapsteker
A slender, patterned southern African snake whose name derives from a folk belief linking it to livestock, though it is not dangerous to sheep or people.
White-spotted Cat Snake
A slender, marbled cat snake often marked with pale flecks, found in the forests of Southeast Asia.
Twin-spotted Rat Snake
A small, slender rat snake from China marked with paired dark spots along its back, well suited to rocky and hilly terrain.
Small-spotted Coral Snake
A Mexican coral snake with tricolor banding along the Pacific lowlands, carrying potent neurotoxic venom typical of the coral snake genus.
Many-spotted Cat Snake
A slender, densely spotted nocturnal tree snake found across Southeast Asian forests and gardens.
Twin-Spotted Wolf Snake
A small, harmless nocturnal colubrid with paired dark spots and enlarged front teeth resembling those of venomous species.
Spotted Leaf-Nosed Snake
A small nocturnal desert snake named for its enlarged, leaf-shaped rostral scale used to dig for buried lizard eggs.
Southern Durango Spotted Garter Snake
A montane garter snake from the pine-oak forests of southern Durango, distinguished by a spotted rather than striped dorsal pattern.
Spotted Python
A small, slender Australian python patterned with irregular dark brown blotches on a pale background, often found near rocky waterways.
Twin-spotted Rattlesnake
A tiny, high-elevation rattlesnake marked by paired rows of small dark spots down its gray body.
Yellow-spotted Keelback
A small stream-associated colubrid marked with yellow spotting along a dark body, found across South and Southeast Asian hill forests.
Dark-Spotted Anaconda
A rare, poorly known anaconda species restricted to coastal marshes of northeastern Brazil and French Guiana.
Brown-Spotted Pit Viper
A slender brown pit viper with a chain of dark blotches, found across a wide swath of South and East Asia.
Ravergier's Snake
A slender, fast-moving diurnal whip snake found across arid and semi-arid habitats from the eastern Mediterranean through the Caucasus into Central Asia.
Leopard Water Snake
A boldly spotted aquatic snake of southern South American wetlands, named for the leopard-like blotches covering its body.
Spurred Sand Snake
A slender, fast-moving, diurnal sand snake widespread across Africa, known for its active daytime foraging and mild rear-fanged venom.
Green Bush Snake
A slender, bright green, non-venomous African tree snake frequently seen in gardens and hedges, harmless to humans.
Mole Snake
A large, powerfully built, non-venomous African snake specialized in preying on burrowing rodents.