Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell similar species apart.
Yellow-Lipped Sea Krait
A boldly banded, air-breathing sea krait of Indo-Pacific coral reefs and coastlines.
Sea Krait
A banded, amphibious sea snake that comes ashore to rest, digest, and lay eggs, unlike most fully marine sea snakes.
Banded Sea Krait
A distinctive black-and-pale banded sea snake that comes ashore to rest, digest, and lay eggs, unlike fully aquatic sea snakes.
Brown-Lipped Sea Krait
A widely distributed, boldly banded sea krait recognized by its dark upper lip, common on coral reefs across the Indo-Pacific and known for amphibious habits.
Blue-Lipped Sea Krait
A banded, amphibious sea krait that hunts in coral reefs but returns to land to rest, digest, and lay eggs.
Erabu Sea Krait
A banded amphibious sea krait from Japan's Ryukyu Islands, known for coming ashore to digest food, rest, and lay eggs, and long featured in local island culture.
Crocker's Sea Krait
A remarkable sea krait endemic to a single landlocked lake in the Solomon Islands, unique among sea kraits for living entirely in brackish water.
Yellow Sea Snake
One of the largest sea snakes, known for its bright yellow to olive coloration and slender, elongate body found across the Indian Ocean.
Yellow-Bellied Sea Snake
The most widely distributed snake species in the world, a fully pelagic sea snake found drifting across open tropical oceans.
Persian Krait
The westernmost of the krait species, found in the arid Balochistan region spanning Iran and Pakistan.
Sind Krait
A krait of the Indus Valley region, closely related to the Common Krait.
Blue Krait
A nocturnal krait, slow-moving by day and active after dark.
Malayan Krait
A slender, black-and-white banded krait of Southeast Asia, closely resembling the many-banded krait.
Wall's Krait
A banded krait of the Gangetic plains, named after herpetologist Frank Wall, closely resembling the Common Krait.
White-Lipped Snake
A small, cold-tolerant elapid of cool southern Australian habitats, named for the pale scales bordering its upper lip.
White-Lipped Python
A group of glossy, dark-bodied New Guinea pythons named for the pale scales lining their upper jaw.
White-lipped Keelback
A small forest-floor colubrid of Southeast Asia distinguished by its contrasting white upper lip scales.
Banded Krait
A large, boldly banded krait of South and Southeast Asia, easily recognized by alternating black and yellow rings and a distinctive triangular cross-section.
Burmese Krait
A black-and-white banded krait of Myanmar and adjacent southern China, closely related to the Many-banded Krait.
Common Krait
A nocturnal elapid of South Asia, glossy blue-black with faint white crossbands.
Andaman Krait
An island-endemic krait found only in the Andaman archipelago, banded in black and white.
Blossom Krait
A small, krait-like colubrid whose banded pattern often causes it to be mistaken for a krait.
Ceylon Krait
A slender, endemic krait restricted to Sri Lanka, marked with narrow pale crossbands on a dark body.
Yellow Anaconda
A large, semi-aquatic constrictor of South American wetlands, smaller than its relative the green anaconda but still among the heaviest snakes in the Americas.