List of snakes by common name
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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.
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B
- Ball Python
- Bird snake
- Black-headed snake
- Mexican black kingsnake
- Black rat snake
- Black snake
- Blind snake
- Boa
- Boiga
- Boomslang
- Brown snake
- Bull snake
- Bushmaster
- Dwarf beaked snake
- Rufous beaked snake
C
- Canebrake
- Cantil
- Cascabel
- Cascavel
- Cat-eyed snake
- 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's 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
- Spectacle cobra
- Spitting cobra
- Storm water cobra
- Thai cobra
- West African brown spitting cobra
- White-lipped cobra
- Yellow cobra
- Zebra spitting cobra
- Collett's snake
- Congo snake
- Copperhead
- Coral snake
- Corn snake
- Cottonmouth
- Crowned snake
- Cuban wood snake
E
F
G
H
I
J
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
- Krait
L
M
- Machete savane
- Mamba
- Mamushi
- Mangrove snake
- Milk snake
- Moccasin snake
- Montpellier snake
- Mud snake
- Mussurana
N
P
- Parrot snake
- Patchnose snake
- Perrotet's shieldtail snake
- Pine snake
- 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
- 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
- Mollucan python
- Oenpelli python
- Olive python
- Papuan python
- Pygmy python
- Red blood python
- 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
- Woma python
Q
R
- Racer
- Raddysnake
- Rat 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
- Scott Shields Barrows Deadliest Snake
- Shield-tailed snake
- Sidewinder
- Small-eyed snake
- Smooth snake
- Sonoran
- Stiletto snake
- Striped snake
- Sunbeam snake
T
- Taipan
- Tentacled snake
- Tic polonga
- Tiger snake
- Tigre snake
- Tree snake
- Trinket snake
- Twig snake
- Twin Headed King Snake
- Titanboa snake
U
V
- Vine snake
- Viper
- Asp viper
- Bamboo viper
- Bluntnose viper
- Brazilian mud Viper
- Burrowing viper
- 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
- Palestinian viper
- Pallas' viper
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Ursini's viper
- Western hog-nosed viper
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Xanlder
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See also
- List of snakes, overview of snake families and genera.
- List of reptiles, overview of reptile orders and families.