Snakes of Ethiopia
103 snake species are recorded in Ethiopia - 33 venomous and 70 non-venomous, from 12 families.
- Black Mamba Dendroaspis polylepis venomous
- Black-necked Spitting Cobra Naja nigricollis venomous
- Boomslang Dispholidus typus venomous
- Egyptian Cobra Naja haje venomous
- Puff Adder Bitis arietans venomous
- Sand Boa Eryx colubrinus
- African Cobra Naja pallida venomous
- African Rock Python Python sebae
- African Shovel-nosed Snake Scaphiophis albopunctatus
- Ashe's Spitting Cobra Naja ashei venomous
- Bale Mountains adder Bitis harenna venomous
- Banded Snake Pseudoboodon lemniscatus
- Battersby's Green Snake Philothamnus battersbyi
- Beautiful Cat Snake Telescopus pulcher
- Beautiful Sand Snake Psammophis pulcher venomous
- Bequaert's Green Snake Philothamnus bequaerti
- Black-headed Micrelaps Micrelaps vaillanti venomous
- Black-headed Smooth Snake Meizodon plumbiceps
- Blanford's Blind-snake Afrotyphlops blanfordii
- Boaedon mendesi
- Brown Forest Cobra Naja subfulva venomous
- Brown House Snake (fuliginosus) Boaedon fuliginosus
- Böhme's Ethiopian Snake Pseudoboodon boehmei
- Cairo Blind Snake Myriopholis cairi
- Calabresi's Blind-snake Afrotyphlops calabresii
- Cape Wolf Snake (capense) Lycophidion capense
- Common Egg Eater Dasypeltis scabra
- Common File Snake Limaformosa capensis
- Common Night Adder Causus rhombeatus venomous
- Common Slug Eater Duberria lutrix
- Confusing Egg Eater Dasypeltis confusa
- Congo File Snake Limaformosa savorgnani
- Dotted House Snake Boaedon maculatus
- Dwarf Sand Snake Psammophis angolensis venomous
- Eastern Crowned Smooth Snake Meizodon regularis
- Eastern Stripe-bellied Sand Snake Psammophis orientalis venomous
- Egyptian Catsnake Telescopus obtusus
- Egyptian Saw-scaled Viper Echis pyramidum venomous
- Eritrean Worm Snake Myriopholis erythraeus
- Ethiopia Viper Bitis parviocula venomous
- Ethiopian Blind Snake Letheobia somalica
- Ethiopian Egg Eater Dasypeltis abyssina
- Ethiopian Hook-nosed Snake Scaphiophis raffreyi
- Ethiopian Worm Snake Leptotyphlops aethiopicus
- Flat-snouted Wolf Snake Lycophidion depressirostre
- Flowered Racer Platyceps florulentus
- Gasca's Ethiopian Snake Pseudoboodon gascae
- Gracile Blind-snake Letheobia largeni
- Green Night Adder Causus resimus venomous
- Grey-bellied Grass Snake Psammophylax variabilis
- Irregular Green Snake Philothamnus irregularis
- Jackson's Centipede-eater Aparallactus jacksonii venomous
- Kenya Beaked Snake Rhinotyphlops unitaeniatus
- Kenyan striped skaapsteker Psammophylax multisquamis
- Lamprophis erlangeri
- Lined Olympic Snake Psammophis lineatus venomous
- Lineolate Blind Snake Afrotyphlops lineolatus
- Link-marked Sand Snake Psammophis biseriatus venomous
- Loveridge's Garter Snake Elapsoidea loveridgei venomous
- Montane Egg-eater Dasypeltis atra
- Mopane Snake Hemirhagerrhis nototaenia
- Northern Bark Snake Hemirhagerrhis hildebrandtii
- Nurse's Blind Snake Myriopholis nursii
- Ogaden Burrowing Asp Atractaspis leucomelas venomous
- Ogaden Racer (somalica) Prosymna somalica
- Ogaden Racer (somalicus) Platyceps somalicus
- Olive Marsh Snake Natriciteres olivacea
- Parker's Worm Snake Myriopholis parkeri
- Peters' Burrowing Asp Atractaspis fallax venomous
- Plumbeous Centipede Eater Aparallactus lunulatus venomous
- Red Beaked Snake Rhamphiophis rubropunctatus
- Red-lipped Snake Crotaphopeltis hotamboeia
- Rufous Beaked Snake Rhamphiophis rostratus
- Ruspoli's Shovelsnout Snake Prosymna ruspolii
- Sandford's Ethiopian Snake Pseudoboodon sandfordorum
- Scortecci's Blind Snake Myriopholis braccianii
- Semiornate Smooth Snake Meizodon semiornatus
- Short Racer Platyceps brevis
- Slender Green Snake Philothamnus heterolepidotus
- Small-Scaled Burrowing Asp Atractaspis microlepidota venomous
- Somali Blind-snake Rhinotyphlops ataeniatus
- Somali Burrowing Asp Atractaspis scorteccii venomous
- Somali Giant Blind-snake Afrotyphlops brevis
- Somali Sand Boa Eryx somalicus
- Somali Snake Aeluroglena cucullata
- Southern Sahel Speckled Shovel-snout Prosymna greigerti
- Speckled Sand Racer Psammophis punctulatus venomous
- Spotted Bush Snake Philothamnus semivariegatus
- Spotted Green Snake Philothamnus punctatus
- Spotted Night Adder Causus maculatus venomous
- Stripe-bellied Sand Snake Psammophis subtaeniatus venomous
- Striped Bark Snake Hemirhagerrhis kelleri
- Striped Sand Snake Psammophis sibilans venomous
- Tana worm snake Myriopholis tanae
- Tanganyika Sand Snake Psammophis tanganicus venomous
- Taylor's Racer Platyceps taylori
- Taylor's Wolf Snake Lycophidion taylori
- Tholloni's African Water Snake Grayia tholloni
- Variable Burrowing Asp Atractaspis irregularis venomous
- Werner's Garter Snake Elapsoidea laticincta venomous
- Western Beaked Snake Rhamphiophis oxyrhynchus
- Western Jackson’s Wolf Snake Lycophidion jacksoni
- Yellow-flanked Snake Crotaphopeltis degeni