It lives in Southeast Asia and seen mostly in the rainforests of India and southern China, Malaysia, and the Philippines. The species is actually only partial noises and sense like ground vibrations else they are deaf to most of the ambient noises. King Cobra saw in the forests from India through Southeast Asia. Here is the list of types of snakes in the world, Types of Snakes 1. All the species of this family produce hemotoxic venom that directly attacks the tissue and blood of the prey. The coral snake which is one of the only venomous snakes in the U.S. This includes all rattlesnakes, the copperhead, and the water moccasin.

All the snake species of this family are venomous and almost all the snakes of the United States fall within this family. Viperidae family of snakes also known as viperids includes rattlesnakes, vipers, adders and other species. The ball python which is one of the most common in the pet trade is also a member of this family.

All the snakes of this family are known as “pythons, however, there are many individual species keep occurring across the world. Pythonidae family has some of the longest snakes in the world that includes the reticulated python of Southeast Asia. Snakes of this family produce neurotoxin which is a type of venom that directly attacks the central nervous systems that is the respiration of their prey. They kill the prey by its sheer size and power.Įlapidae family of snakes also known as elapids has numerous venomous species such as cobras, mambas, coral snakes and taipans. All boas snakes are non-venomous but they are powerful constrictors. The largest and heaviest snake in the world, the green anaconda belongs to this family. The next family comes is Boidae which includes 40 to 45 snake species that are known as boas. Almost all the species in this family are non-venomous but there are few exceptions as well. The largest one being the Colubridae family which has about 1,900 individual snake species and the all are known as colubrids. All the species has been divided into more than 20 families, howvever, Colubridae, Boidae, Elapidae, Pythonidae and Viperidae are the major ones and rest of them are very small contain only one or two species. There are 3,400 individual snake species in the world. We will discuss some of the major types of snakes found across the planet. The species is cold-blooded which means they used to change colour depending on the temperature of the environment and snakes in colder regions used to hibernate in winter because else would be difficult for them to survive.

There are around 3000 kinds of snakes in the world. Snakes are animal species that can be seen on every continent except Antarctica.

Lots of snakes and amphibians