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Some species, such as the scarlet kingsnake, Mexican milk snake, and red milk snake, have coloration and patterning that can cause them to be confused with the highly venomous coral snakes. One of the mnemonic rhymes to help people distinguish between coral snakes and their nonvenomous lookalikes in the United States is "red on black, a friend ...
Its specific name, elapsoides, is a Latinization of the Greek word éllops (ελλοπς) [9] which refers to coral and was used to describe the 19th century genus, Elaps (the type genus of the family Elapidae), which included the eastern coral snake (Micrurus fulvius), a venomous species which the scarlet kingsnake resembles and with which the ...
While any snake exhibiting the coral snake's color and/or banding pattern in the southeastern United States will almost certainly, in fact, be a coral snake, there are coral snakes in other parts of the world that are colored differently. [4] Coral snakes in the United States are most notable for their red, yellow/white, and black-colored banding.
Andean milk snakes use this bright coloration to fool potential predators into believing that they are also venomous, and too risky to eat. There are several rhymes to help people remember the color difference between harmless milk snakes and the poisonous coral snake. Two rhymes that describe the stripe pattern of these snakes are:
Coral snake. Arizona coral snake; Beddome's coral snake; Brazilian coral snake; Cape coral snake; Eastern coral snake; False coral snake; Harlequin coral snake; High Woods coral snake; Malayan long-glanded coral snake; Texas Coral Snake; Western coral snake; Corn snake. South eastern corn snake; Cottonmouth; Crowned snake; Cuban wood snake
Micrurus fulvius, commonly known as the eastern coral snake, [3] common coral snake, American cobra, [4] and more, is a species of highly venomous coral snake in the family Elapidae. The family also contains the cobras and sea snakes . [ 5 ]
Hamrick says that’s why he posted the photos, and added a note that the snake disproved the popular rhyme: “Red on yellow can kill a fellow; red on black is venom lack.”
The deadly Texas coral snake, Micrurus tener (the Emsleyan/Mertensian mimic) The harmless Mexican milk snake, Lampropeltis triangulum annulata (the Batesian mimic) Emsleyan mimicry, also called Mertensian mimicry, describes an unusual type of mimicry where a deadly prey mimics a less dangerous species.