List of snakes by common name explained

This is a list of extant snakes, given by their common names. Note that the snakes are grouped by name, and in some cases the grouping may have no scientific basis.

A

• Adder
  • Common adder
  • Death Adder
  • Desert death adder
  • Horned adder
  • Long-nosed adder
  • Many-horned adder
  • Mountain adder
  • Mud adder
  • Namaqua dwarf adder
  • Peringuey's adder
  • Puff adder
    • African puff adder
  • Rhombic night adder
  • Sand adder
    • Dwarf sand adder
    • Namib dwarf sand adder
  • Water adder
• Aesculapian snake
• Anaconda
  • Bolivian anaconda
  • De Schauensee's anaconda
  • Green anaconda
  • Yellow anaconda
• Arafura file snake
• Asp
  • European asp
  • Egyptian asp
• African beaked snake

B

• Ball Python
• Bird snake
• Black-headed snake
• Mexican black kingsnake
• Black rat snake
• Black snake
  • Red-bellied black snake
• Blind snake
  • Brahminy blind snake
  • Texas blind snake
  • Western blind snake
• Boa
  • Abaco Island boa
  • Amazon tree boa
  • Boa constrictor
  • Cuban boa
  • Dumeril's boa
  • Dwarf boa
  • Emerald tree boa
  • Hogg Island boa
  • Jamaican boa
  • Madagascar ground boa
  • Madagascar tree boa
  • Puerto Rican boa
  • Rainbow boa
  • Red-tailed boa
  • Rosy boa
  • Rubber boa
  • Sand boa
  • Tree boa
• Boiga
• Boomslang
• Brown snake
  • Eastern brown snake
• Bull snake
• Bushmaster
• Dwarf beaked snake
• Rufous beaked snake

C

• Canebrake
• Cantil
• Cascabel
• Cat-eyed snake
  • Banded cat-eyed snake
  • Green cat-eyed snake
• Cat snake
  • Andaman cat snake
  • Beddome's cat snake
  • Dog-toothed cat snake
  • Forsten's cat snake
  • Gold-ringed cat snake
  • Gray cat snake
  • Many-spotted cat snake
  • Nicobar cat snake
  • Sri Lanka cat snake
  • Tawny cat snake
• Chicken snake
• Coachwhip snake
• Cobra
  • Andaman cobra
  • Arabian cobra
  • Asian cobra
  • Banded water cobra
  • Black-necked cobra
  • Black-necked spitting cobra
  • Black tree cobra
  • Burrowing cobra
  • Cape cobra
  • Caspian cobra
  • Chinese cobra
  • Cobra de capello
  • Congo water cobra
  • Common cobra
  • Eastern water cobra
  • Egyptian cobra
  • Equatorial spitting cobra
  • False cobra
  • False water cobra
  • Forest cobra
  • Gold tree cobra
  • Indian cobra
  • Indochinese spitting cobra
  • Javan spitting cobra
  • King cobra
  • Mandalay cobra
  • Monocled cobra
  • Monoculate cobra
  • Mozambique spitting cobra
  • North Philippine cobra
  • Nubian spitting cobra
  • Philippine cobra
  • Red spitting cobra
  • Rinkhals cobra
  • Shield-nosed cobra
  • Sinai desert cobra
  • Southern Indonesian spitting cobra
  • Southern Philippine cobra
  • Southwestern black spitting cobra
  • Snouted cobra
  • Spectacled cobra
  • Spitting cobra
  • Storm water cobra
  • Thai cobra
  • Taiwan cobra
  • West African brown spitting cobra
  • White-lipped cobra
  • Yellow cobra
  • Zebra spitting cobra
• Collett's snake
• Congo snake
• Copperhead
  • American copperhead
  • Australian copperhead
• Coral snake
  • Arizona coral snake
  • Beddome's coral snake
  • Brazilian coral snake
  • Cape coral snake
  • Eastern coral snake
  • False coral snake
  • Harlequin coral snake
  • High Woods coral snake
  • Malayan long-glanded coral snake
  • Texas Coral Snake
  • Western coral snake
• Corn snake
  • South eastern corn snake
• Cottonmouth
• Crowned snake
• Cuban wood snake

E

• Eastern hognose snake
• Egg-eater
  • Indian egg-eater
• Eyelash viper
• Eastern coral snake

F

• Fer-de-lance
• Fierce snake
• Fishing snake
• Flying snake
  • Golden tree snake
  • Indian flying snake
  • Moluccan flying snake
  • Ornate flying snake
  • Paradise flying snake
  • Twin-Barred tree snake
  • Banded Flying Snake
• Fox snake, three species of Pantherophis
• Forest flame snake

G

• Garter snake
  • Checkered garter snake
  • Common garter snake
  • San Francisco garter snake
  • Texas garter snake
• Glossy snake
• Gopher snake
  • Cape gopher snake
• Grass snake
• Green snake
  • Rough green snake
  • Smooth green snake
• Ground snake
  • Common ground snake
  • Three-lined ground snake
  • Western ground snake

H

• Habu
  • Himehabu
  • Okinawan habu
  • Sakishima habu
  • Tokara habu
• Harlequin snake
  • Elaps harlequin snake
• Herald snake
• Hognose snake
  • Blonde hognose snake
  • Dusty hognose snake
  • Eastern hognose snake
  • Jan's hognose snake
  • Giant Malagasy hognose snake
  • Mexican hognose snake
  • Plains hognose snake
  • Ringed hognose snake
  • South American hognose snake
  • Southern hognose snake
  • Speckled hognose snake
  • Tri-color hognose snake
  • Western hognose snake
• Hoop snake
• Hundred pacer

I

• Ikaheka snake
• Indigo snake

J

• Jamaican Tree Snake
• Jararacussu

K

• Keelback
  • Andrea's keelback
  • Asian keelback
  • Assam keelback
  • Black-striped keelback
  • Buff striped keelback
  • Burmese keelback
  • Checkered keelback
  • Common keelback
  • Hill keelback
  • Himalayan keelback
  • Khasi Hills keelback
  • Modest keelback
  • Nicobar Island keelback
  • Nilgiri keelback
  • Orange-collared keelback
  • Red-necked keelback
  • Sikkim keelback
  • Speckle-bellied keelback
  • Tiger keelback
  • Wall's keelback
  • White-lipped keelback
  • Wynaad keelback
  • Yunnan keelback
• King brown
• King cobra
• King snake
  • California kingsnake
  • Desert kingsnake
  • Grey-banded kingsnake
  • North eastern king snake
  • Prairie kingsnake
  • Scarlet kingsnake
  • Speckled kingsnake
• Krait
  • Banded krait
  • Blue krait
  • Black krait
  • Burmese krait
  • Ceylon krait
  • Indian krait
  • Lesser black krait^[1]
  • Malayan krait
  • Many-banded krait
  • Northeastern hill krait^[2]
  • Red-headed krait
  • Sind krait
  • South Andaman krait
  • Suzhen's krait

L

• Large shield snake
• Lancehead
  • Common lancehead
• Lora
  • Grey Lora
• Lyre snake
  • Baja California lyresnake
  • Central American lyre snake
  • Texas lyre snake
  • Eastern lyre snake

M

• Machete savane
• Mamba
  • Black mamba
  • Green mamba
    • Eastern green mamba
    • Western green mamba
• Mamushi
• Mangrove snake
• Milk snake
• Moccasin snake
• Montpellier snake
• Mud snake
  • Eastern mud snake
  • Western mud snake
• Mussurana

N

• Night snake
  • Cat-eyed night snake
  • Texas night snake
  • Nichell snake
  • Narrowhead Garter Snake
• Nose-horned viper
  • Rhinoceros viper
  • Vipera ammodytes

P

• Parrot snake
  • Mexican parrot snake
• Patchnose snake
• Perrotet's shieldtail snake
• Pine snake
• Pipe snake
  • Asian pipe snake
  • Dwarf pipe snake
  • Red-tailed pipe snake
• Python
  • African rock python
  • Amethystine python
  • Angolan python
  • Australian scrub python
  • Ball python
  • Bismarck ringed python
  • Black headed python
  • Blood python
  • Boelen python
  • Borneo short-tailed python
  • Bredl's python
  • Brown water python
  • Burmese python
  • Calabar python
  • Western carpet python
    • Centralian carpet python
    • Coastal carpet python
    • Inland carpet python
    • Jungle carpet python
    • New Guinea carpet python
    • Northwestern carpet python
    • Southwestern carpet python
  • Children's python
  • Dauan Island water python
  • Desert woma python
  • Diamond python
  • Flinders python
  • Green tree python
  • Halmahera python
  • Indian python
  • Indonesian water python
  • Macklot's python
  • Moluccan python
  • Oenpelli python
  • Olive python
  • Papuan python
  • Pygmy python
  • Red blood python
  • Reticulated python
    • Kayaudi dwarf reticulated python
    • Selayer reticulated python
  • Rough-scaled python
  • Royal python
  • Savu python
  • Spotted python
  • Stimson's python
  • Sumatran short-tailed python
  • Tanimbar python
  • Timor python
  • Wetar Island python
  • White-lipped python
    • Brown white-lipped python
    • Northern white-lipped python
    • Southern white-lipped python
  • Woma python
    • Western woma python

Q

• Queen snake

R

• Racer
  • Bimini racer
  • Buttermilk racer
  • Eastern racer
  • Eastern yellowbelly sad racer
  • Mexican racer
  • Southern black racer
  • Tan racer
  • West Indian racer
• Raddysnake
  • Southwestern blackhead snake
• Rat snake
  • Baird's rat snake
  • Beauty rat snake
  • Great Plains rat snake
  • Green rat snake
  • Japanese forest rat snake
  • Japanese rat snake
  • King rat snake
  • Mandarin rat snake
  • Persian rat snake
  • Red-backed rat snake^[3]
  • Twin-spotted rat snake
  • Yellow-striped rat snake
  • Manchurian Black Water Snake
• Rattlesnake
  • Arizona black rattlesnake
  • Aruba rattlesnake
  • Chihuahuan ridge-nosed rattlesnake
  • Coronado Island rattlesnake
  • Durango rock rattlesnake
  • Dusky pigmy rattlesnake
  • Eastern diamondback rattlesnake
  • Grand Canyon rattlesnake
  • Great Basin rattlesnake
  • Hopi rattlesnake
  • Lance-headed rattlesnake
  • Long-tailed rattlesnake
  • Massasauga rattlesnake
  • Mexican green rattlesnake
  • Mexican west coast rattlesnake
  • Midget faded rattlesnake
  • Mojave rattlesnake
  • Northern black-tailed rattlesnake
  • Oaxacan small-headed rattlesnake
  • Rattler
  • Red diamond rattlesnake
  • Southern Pacific rattlesnake
  • Southwestern speckled rattlesnake
  • Tancitaran dusky rattlesnake
  • Tiger rattlesnake
  • Timber rattlesnake
  • Tropical rattlesnake
  • Twin-spotted rattlesnake
  • Uracoan rattlesnake
  • Western diamondback rattlesnake
• Ribbon snake
• Rinkhals
• River jack

S

• Sea snake
  • Annulated sea snake
  • Beaked sea snake
  • Dubois's sea snake
  • Hardwicke's sea snake
  • Hook Nosed Sea Snake
  • Olive sea snake
  • Pelagic sea snake
  • Stoke's sea snake
  • Yellow-banded sea snake
  • Yellow-bellied sea snake
  • Yellow-lipped sea snake
• Shield-tailed snake
• Sidewinder
  • Colorado desert sidewinder
  • Mojave desert sidewinder
  • Sonoran sidewinder
• Small-eyed snake
• Smooth snake
  • Brazilian smooth snake
  • European smooth snake
• Stiletto snake
• Striped snake
  • Japanese striped snake
• Sunbeam snake

T

• Taipan
  • Central ranges taipan
  • Coastal taipan
  • Inland taipan
  • Paupan taipan
• Tentacled snake
• Tic polonga
• Tiger snake
  • Chappell Island tiger snake
  • Common tiger snake
  • Down's tiger snake
  • Eastern tiger snake
  • King Island tiger snake
  • Krefft's tiger snake
  • Peninsula tiger snake
  • Tasmanian tiger snake
  • Western tiger snake
• Tigre snake
• Tree snake
  • Blanding's tree snake
  • Blunt-headed tree snake
  • Brown tree snake
  • Long-nosed tree snake
  • Many-banded tree snake
  • Northern tree snake
• Trinket snake
  • Black-banded trinket snake
• Twig snake
  • African twig snake
• Twin Headed King Snake
• Titanoboa

U

• Urutu

V

• Vine snake
  • Asian Vine Snake, Whip Snake
  • American Vine Snake
  • Mexican vine snake
• Viper
  • Asp viper
  • Bamboo viper
  • Bluntnose viper
  • Brazilian mud Viper
  • Burrowing viper
  • Bush viper
    • Great Lakes bush viper
    • Hairy bush viper
    • Nitsche's bush viper
    • Rough-scaled bush viper
    • Spiny bush viper
  • Carpet viper
  • Crossed viper
  • Cyclades blunt-nosed viper
  • Eyelash viper
  • False horned viper
  • Fea's viper
  • Fifty pacer
  • Gaboon viper
  • Hognosed viper
  • Horned desert viper
  • Horned viper
  • Jumping viper
  • Kaznakov's viper
  • Leaf-nosed viper
  • Leaf viper
  • Levant viper
  • Long-nosed viper
  • McMahon's viper
  • Mole viper
  • Nose-horned viper
    • Rhinoceros viper
    • Vipera ammodytes
  • Palestine viper
  • Pallas' viper
  • Palm viper
    • Amazonian palm viper
    • Black-speckled palm-pitviper
    • Eyelash palm-pitviper
    • Green palm viper
    • Mexican palm-pitviper
    • Guatemalan palm viper
    • Honduran palm viper
    • Siamese palm viper
    • Side-striped palm-pitviper
    • Yellow-lined palm viper
  • Pit viper
    • Banded pitviper
    • Bamboo pitviper
    • Barbour's pit viper
    • Black-tailed horned pit viper
    • Bornean pitviper
    • Brongersma's pitviper
    • Brown spotted pitviper^[4]
    • Cantor's pitviper
    • Elegant pitviper
    • Eyelash pit viper
    • Fan-Si-Pan horned pitviper
    • Flat-nosed pitviper
    • Godman's pit viper
    • Green tree pit viper
    • Habu pit viper
    • Hagen's pitviper
    • Horseshoe pitviper
    • Jerdon's pitviper
    • Kanburian pit viper
    • Kaulback's lance-headed pitviper
    • Kham Plateau pitviper
    • Large-eyed pitviper
    • Malabar rock pitviper
    • Malayan pit viper
    • Mangrove pit viper
    • Mangshan pitviper
    • Motuo bamboo pitviper
    • Nicobar bamboo pitviper
    • Philippine pitviper
    • Pointed-scaled pit viper^[5]
    • Red-tailed bamboo pitviper
    • Schultze's pitviper
    • Stejneger's bamboo pitviper
    • Sri Lankan pit viper
    • Temple pit viper
    • Tibetan bamboo pitviper
    • Tiger pit viper
    • Undulated pit viper
    • Wagler's pit viper
    • Wirot's pit viper
  • Portuguese viper
  • Rhinoceros viper
  • River jack
  • Russell's viper
  • Sand viper
  • Saw-scaled viper
  • Schlegel's viper
  • Sedge viper
  • Sharp-nosed viper
  • Snorkel viper
  • Temple viper
  • Tree viper
    • Chinese tree viper
    • Guatemalan tree viper
    • Hutton's tree viper
    • Indian tree viper
    • Large-scaled tree viper
    • Malcolm's tree viper
    • Nitsche's tree viper
    • Pope's tree viper
    • Rough-scaled tree viper
    • Rungwe tree viper
    • Sumatran tree viper
    • White-lipped tree viper
  • Ursini's viper
  • Western hog-nosed viper

W

• Wart snake
• Water moccasin
• Water snake
  • Bocourt's water snake
  • Northern water snake
• Whip snake
  • Long-nosed whip snake
• Wolf snake
  • African wolf snake
  • Barred wolf snake
• Worm snake
  • Common worm snake
  • Longnosed worm snake
• Wutu

Y

• Yarara

Z

• Zebra snake

See also

• List of snakes, overview of snake families and genera.
• List of reptiles, overview of reptile orders and families.

Notes and References

1. Book: Harding . K.A. . Welch . K.R.G. . Venomous Snakes of the World: A Checklist . Pergamon Press . Toxicon: Supplement . 1980 . 978-0-08-025495-1 . 9 June 2019 . 8.
2. Book: Bücherl . W. . Buckley . E.E. . Deulofeu . V. . Venomous Animals and Their Venoms: Venomous Vertebrates . Elsevier Science . 2013 . 978-1-4832-6363-2 . 9 June 2019 . 531.
3. Book: de Carle Sowerby, A. . The Naturalist in Manchuria . Tientsin Press, Limited . The Naturalist in Manchuria . v. 4-5 . 1930 . 9 June 2019 . 14.
4. Gumprecht A, Tillack F, Orlov NL, Captain A, Ryabov S. 2004. Asian Pitvipers. Geitje Books. Berlin. 1st Edition. 368 pp. .
5. U.S. Navy. 1991. Poisonous Snakes of the World. US Govt. New York: Dover Publications Inc. 203 pp. .