The dataset contains five snake species: northern water snake (Nerodia sipedon), common garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis), Dekayi's brown snake (Storeria dekayi), black rat snake (Patherophis obsoletus) and western rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox).

is from AIcrowd Snake Recognition Challenge DatasetThe original dataset is very noisy and contains multiple blurry, small and unusable images. The dataset is preprocessed to increase brightness and contrast, manually delete and crop images to adjust the size to 384*384, making the images cleaner, uniform and usable.