Snakes in Sri Lanka

There are 96 snakes in Sri Lanka. Among them there are 34 species are venomous.

We can divide them as highly venomous and mildly venomous.


There are 13 species highly venomous snakes in coastal water around Sri Lanka (sea snakes). But I try to explain you from this site about only venomous land snakes.

From this page I introduce you the families and the names of the venomous snakes that we can see in Sri Lanka.