About

Contributors

A big thanks to:

• Peter Uetz from The Reptile Database for reliable taxonomy updates since 1995 (!)
• Andrew M. Durso from Life is Short, but Snakes are Long for dentition data on Lamprophiidae
• Brian Bush aka The Bushman for sharing his field observations on snake pupil shapes

Downloads

Download the whole database or normalized taxonomy data:

• snakeDB_v2024-05-30.sql (complete SQL dump)
• Family_v2024-05-30.csv
• Genus_v2024-05-30.csv
• Species_v2024-05-30.csv
• Subspecies_v2024-05-30.csv (including nominate species & species)

You can also download the data on each page via buttons below each table. Button downloads might not work if you select 10.000+ data records.

Platform

snakeDB runs on:

• MySQL database for data storage
• PHPMyAdmin and MySQL Workbench for data management
• HTML, CSS and PHP server-side scripting language
• JavaScript (JS) for client-side scripting
• jQuery JS library for AJAX and DOM manipulation
• DataTables JS library for table display and filtering
• Poppers JS library for dynamic menu effects in the navbar
• BootStrap front-end framework

Imprint

snakeDB is a project of:

Sascha Steinhoff
Sømoseparken 78 B, 1. 9
2750 Ballerup/DENMARK
sascha.steinhoff@snakedb.org