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Pliocercus elapoides, also known commonly as the variegated false coral snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to southern North America and northern Central America .
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.
Highly venomous eastern coral snakes just got a lot more intimidating, after a Florida biology student found one that doesn’t look like the photos in textbooks. Coral snakes are famously ...
Micruroides is a genus of venomous coral snake in the family Elapidae. The genus is monotypic, containing only the species Micruroides euryxanthus. Micruroides euryxanthus, commonly known as the Sonoran coral snake, western coral snake or the Arizona coral snake, is endemic to northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States.
Brown's coral snake can grow to 100 cm (39 in) in total length (including tail), but it is usually 50 cm (20 in) to 70 cm (28 in). It has smooth dorsal scales, a rounded head, and eyes with round pupils. Its color pattern is three-colored: broad red rings, separated by 10-27 black rings, each black ring bordered by two narrow yellow bands. [2]
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 ]
The Texas coral snake has the traditional coloration associated with coral snakes: black, yellow, and red rings. [3] These rings extend onto their belly. [4] It is capable of growing to 48 in (122 cm) in total length (including tail), but most are closer to 24 in (61 cm). [3] Males are typically smaller than females. [5]
Pliocercus elapoides Cope, 1860 – variegated false coral snake Pliocercus elapoides aequalis Salvin, 1861; Pliocercus elapoides diastema (Bocourt, 1886) Pliocercus elapoides elapoides Cope, 1860; Pliocercus elapoides occidentalis H.M. Smith & Landy, 1965; Pliocercus euryzonus Cope, 1862 – Cope's false coral snake