Snake Identifier

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.

Rough Green Snake

Rough Green Snake

A slender, bright green colubrid with keeled scales, common in shrubs and vegetation near water across the southeastern US.

Southeastern Green Snake

Southeastern Green Snake

A slender, bright green North American snake with keeled scales, well known as a gentle, harmless resident of shrubs and vines.

Rough Earth Snake

Rough Earth Snake

A tiny, plain-colored, fossorial colubrid common in leaf litter and gardens across the southeastern United States.

Rough-Scaled Snake

Rough-Scaled Snake

A distinctive elapid with unusually keeled scales, found in rainforests and wet forests of eastern Australia.

Rough Earthsnake

Rough Earthsnake

A tiny, drab, keeled-scaled snake commonly hidden beneath leaf litter and garden debris across the Southeast.

Rough-Scaled Sea Snake

Rough-Scaled Sea Snake

A heavily built sea snake with distinctly rough, keeled scales, notable for possessing unusually large fangs and potent venom among sea snake species.

Green Rat Snake

Green Rat Snake

A bright green, arboreal colubrid of Southeast Asian rainforests, closely related to the red-tailed racer and well camouflaged in the forest canopy.

Natal Green Snake

Natal Green Snake

A slender, bright green, harmless snake found in coastal and inland vegetation of southeastern Africa, often mistaken for the venomous boomslang.

Green Water Snake

Green Water Snake

A large, heavy-bodied North American watersnake with plain olive-green coloration, common in swamps and marshes of the southeastern U.S.

Angola Green Snake

Angola Green Snake

A slender, bright green tree snake widespread across savanna and woodland of central and southern Africa.

Speckled Green Snake

Speckled Green Snake

A slender green African bush snake distinguished by fine dark speckling along its back, harmless to humans.

Green Vine Snake

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.

Green Bush Snake

Green Bush Snake

A slender, bright green, non-venomous African tree snake frequently seen in gardens and hedges, harmless to humans.

Battersby's Green Snake

Battersby's Green Snake

A little-known, slender green colubrid from Central and East African forests, harmless to humans and closely related to other bush snakes.

Green Cat Snake

Green Cat Snake

A large, bright green nocturnal tree snake with prominent cat-like vertical pupils, found across South and Southeast Asian forests.

Smooth Green Snake

Smooth Green Snake

A small, docile, grass-green colubrid of meadows and grasslands, distinguished from its relative by smooth, unkeeled scales.

Northern Green Snake

Northern Green Snake

A slender, bright green tree-dwelling colubrid of West and Central Africa, harmless to humans and well camouflaged among foliage.

Mississippi Green Water Snake

Mississippi Green Water Snake

A stout, greenish water snake of Gulf Coast swamps and bayous, closely related to the Florida green water snake.

Green Bush Rat Snake

Green Bush Rat Snake

A slender, bright green arboreal snake found in montane forests of Southeast Asia and southern China, well camouflaged among foliage.

Florida Green Water Snake

Florida Green Water Snake

A large, heavy-bodied, uniformly greenish water snake common in Florida's lakes, marshes, and swamps.

Green Keelback

Green Keelback

A small, bright green rear-fanged colubrid found in hilly forests of the Indian subcontinent.

Green Racer

Green Racer

A slender, bright green, fast-moving snake of South American forests that hunts actively by day for frogs, lizards, and small mammals.

Green Anaconda

Green Anaconda

One of the world's heaviest snakes, a massive semi-aquatic constrictor of South American rivers and wetlands.

Green Bush Viper

Green Bush Viper

A small, arboreal African viper with rough spiny scales and a body color that varies from green to yellow or blue-green.