Snakes of Rwanda
56 snake species are recorded in Rwanda - 19 venomous and 37 non-venomous, from 10 families.
- Black-necked Spitting Cobra Naja nigricollis venomous
- Boomslang Dispholidus typus venomous
- Gaboon Viper Bitis gabonica venomous
- Puff Adder Bitis arietans venomous
- African Rock Python Python sebae
- African Shovel-nosed Snake Scaphiophis albopunctatus
- African Tree Cobra Pseudohaje goldii venomous
- Akagera Gracile Blind Snake Letheobia akagerae
- Angolan Shovel-snout Prosymna ambigua
- Black File Snake Gracililima nyassae
- Black-lined Green Snake Hapsidophrys lineatus
- Boaedon mendesi
- Brown Forest Cobra Naja subfulva venomous
- Brown House Snake (fuliginosus) Boaedon fuliginosus
- Bug-eyed House Snake Boaedon mentalis
- Butler's Two-headed Snake Chilorhinophis butleri venomous
- Cape Wolf Snake (capense) Lycophidion capense
- Collared Snake-eater Polemon collaris venomous
- Common Egg Eater Dasypeltis scabra
- Common Night Adder Causus rhombeatus venomous
- Common Slug Eater Duberria lutrix
- Confusing Egg Eater Dasypeltis confusa
- Eastern Snake-eater Polemon christyi venomous
- Emerald Green Snake Philothamnus heterodermus
- Forest Cobra Naja melanoleuca venomous
- Great Lakes Bush Viper Atheris nitschei venomous
- Green Night Adder Causus resimus venomous
- Green Water Snake Philothamnus hoplogaster
- Grey-bellied Grass Snake Psammophylax variabilis
- Günther's Green Tree Snake Dipsadoboa unicolor
- Jackson's Black Tree Snake Thrasops jacksonii
- Jameson's Mamba Dendroaspis jamesoni venomous
- Kenyan striped skaapsteker Psammophylax multisquamis
- Laurent’s Green Tree-snake Dipsadoboa viridis
- Loveridge's Garter Snake Elapsoidea loveridgei venomous
- Montane Egg-eater Dasypeltis atra
- Olive House Snake (olivaceus) Boaedon olivaceus
- Olive Marsh Snake Natriciteres olivacea
- Olive Whip Snake Psammophis mossambicus venomous
- Ornate Wolf Snake Lycophidion ornatum
- Red-lipped Snake Crotaphopeltis hotamboeia
- Ringed Water Cobra Naja annulata venomous
- Rwanda Forest Green Snake Philothamnus ruandae
- Slender Green Snake Philothamnus heterolepidotus
- Smith's African Water Snake Grayia smithii
- Sternfeld's Beaked Snake Letheobia graueri
- Tanganyika Water Snake Lycodonomorphus bicolor
- Thirteen-scaled Green Snake Philothamnus carinatus
- Thrasops aethiopissa
- Tiger Cat Snake Telescopus semiannulatus
- Two-lined Night Adder Causus bilineatus venomous
- Unicolor File Snake Limaformosa chanleri
- Variable Burrowing Asp Atractaspis irregularis venomous
- Weiler's Tree Snake Dipsadoboa weileri
- Western Beaked Snake Rhamphiophis oxyrhynchus
- Western Jackson’s Wolf Snake Lycophidion jacksoni