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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 ]
Coral snakes are a large group of elapid snakes that can be divided into two distinct groups, the Old World coral snakes and New World coral snakes. There are 27 species of Old World coral snakes, in three genera (Calliophis, Hemibungarus, and Sinomicrurus), and 83 recognized species of New World coral snakes, in two genera (Micruroides and Micrurus).
The eastern variety, which is one of 70 species of coral snakes in the Americas, is found in the Coastal Plain from Louisiana to the Carolinas and throughout Florida.
Brachyurophis australis (coral snake) [4] is a species of snake from the family Elapidae (common names - eastern shovel-nosed snake, coral snake, Australian coral snake) [3] and is a species endemic to Australia. [1] Its common name reflects its shovel nose specialisation.
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 ...
This adult female eastern coral snake was found in Carolina Beach State Park in May 2013. How to avoid snakes The SCDNR states that snakes, even venomous ones, are nonaggressive when left alone.
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 ...
Brachyurophis approximans (Glauert, 1854) – North-western shovel-nosed snake; Brachyurophis australis (Krefft, 1864) – (Australian) coral snake, Eastern shovel-nosed snake; Brachyurophis campbelli (Kinghorn, 1929) – Cape York shovel-nosed snake; Brachyurophis fasciolatus (Günther, 1872) – Narrow-banded shovel-nosed snake