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Micrurus mipartitus (red-tailed coral snake [2] or many-banded coral snake) [3] is a species of coral snake in the family Elapidae. [2] The species is native to Central America and northern South America.
This species was assigned to the new world coral snake genus Maticora until phylogenetic studies revealed this species to be nested within the tropical coral snake species clade Calliophis and sister species to Calliophis intestinalis, the banded Malaysian coral snake. [4] This is a medium-sized coral snake with a slender body.
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.
Calliophis melanurus (Shaw, 1802) – Slender coral snake, Indian coral snake (India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka) Calliophis nigrescens (Günther, 1862) – Black coral snake (India) Calliophis nigrotaeniatus (Peters, 1863) – banded Malaysian coral snake, striped coral snake (Indonesia, Malaysia )
Micrurus sangilensis Nicéforo Maria, 1942 – San Gil coral snake, Santander coral snake; Micrurus scutiventris (Cope, 1869) – little black coral snake, pygmy black-backed coral snake; Micrurus serranus Harvey, Aparicio & Gonzáles, 2003; Micrurus silviae Di-Bernardo, Borges-Martins & da Silva Jr., 2007; Micrurus spixii Wagler, 1824 ...
Micrurus multifasciatus, the many-banded coral snake, is a species of snake of the family Elapidae. [2] The snake is found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia, and ...
Coral snakes are famously beautiful, with “alternating rings of red, yellow and black completely encircling its slender, cylindrical body.” However, the one found Oct. 19 was bright yellow ...
Calliophis nigrotaeniatus, the banded Malaysian coral snake or striped coral snake, is a species of snake of the family Elapidae. [1]