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Micrurus Wagler, 1824
Taxonomic Serial No.: 174353

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Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Animalia
	Taxonomic Rank:	Genus
	Synonym(s):	Leptomicrurus K. P. Schmidt, 1937
	Common Name(s):	American Coral Snakes [English]
		American Coralsnakes [English]

	Taxonomic Status:
	Current Standing:	valid

	Data Quality Indicators:
	Record Credibility Rating:	verified - standards met
	Global Species Completeness:	complete
	Latest Record Review:	2017

Taxonomic Hierarchy


	Kingdom	Animalia – Animal, animaux, animals
	Subkingdom	Bilateria – triploblasts
	Infrakingdom	Deuterostomia
	Phylum	Chordata – cordés, cordado, chordates
	Subphylum	Vertebrata – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates
	Infraphylum	Gnathostomata
	Superclass	Tetrapoda
	Class	Reptilia Laurenti, 1768 – répteis, reptiles, Reptiles
	Order	Squamata Oppel, 1811 – Amphisbaenians, Lizards, Snakes, amphisbènes, lézards, serpents
	Suborder	Serpentes Linnaeus, 1758 – Snakes, cobra, serpente, serpents
	Infraorder	Alethinophidia Nopcsa, 1923
	Family	Elapidae F. Boie, 1827 – Cobras, Coral Snakes, Elapids, Kraits, Coralsnakes
	Subfamily	Elapinae F. Boie, 1827
	Genus	Micrurus Wagler, 1824 – American Coral Snakes, American Coralsnakes
		Direct Children:
	Species	Micrurus albicinctus Amaral, 1925 – White-banded Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus alleni K. P. Schmidt, 1936 – Allen's Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus altirostris (Cope, 1860)
	Species	Micrurus ancoralis (Jan in Jan and Sordelli, 1872) – Regal Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus annellatus (W. C. H. Peters, 1871) – Annellated Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus averyi K. P. Schmidt, 1939 – Black-headed Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus baliocoryphus (Cope, 1860)
	Species	Micrurus bernadi (Cope, 1887) – Saddled Coral Snake, Blotched Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus bocourti (Jan in Jan and Sordelli, 1872) – False Triad Coral Snake, Ecuador Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus bogerti Roze, 1967 – Serpiente-coralillo de Bogert, Bogert's Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus brasiliensis Roze, 1967
	Species	Micrurus browni K. P. Schmidt and H. M. Smith, 1943 – Serpiente-coralillo de Brown, Brown's Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus camilae Renjifo and Lundberg, 2003
	Species	Micrurus catamayensis Roze, 1989 – Catamayo Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus circinalis (A. M. C. Duméril, Bibron and A. H. A. Duméril, 1854) – Trinidad Northern Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus clarki K. P. Schmidt, 1936 – Clark's Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus collaris (Schlegel, 1837) – Guyana Blackback Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus corallinus (Merrem, 1820) – Painted Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus decoratus (Jan, 1858) – Brazilian Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus diana Roze, 1983 – Diana's Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus diastema (A. M. C. Duméril, Bibron and A. H. A. Duméril, 1854) – Serpiente-coralillo variable, Variable Coral Snake, Diastema Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus dissoleucus (Cope, 1860) – Pigmy Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus distans (Kennicott, 1860) – Serpiente-coralillo del oeste mexicano, West Mexican Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus dumerilii (Jan, 1858)
	Species	Micrurus elegans (Jan, 1858) – Serpiente-coralillo elegante, Elegant Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus ephippifer (Cope, 1886) – Serpiente-coralillo oaxaqueña, Oaxacan Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus filiformis (Günther, 1859) – Slender Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus frontalis (A. M. C. Duméril, Bibron and A. H. A. Duméril, 1854) – Southern Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus fulvius (Linnaeus, 1766) – Northern Coral Snake, Harlequin Coralsnake, Serpiente-coralillo arlequín, Eastern Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus hemprichii (Jan, 1858) – Hemprich's Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus hippocrepis (W. C. H. Peters, 1862) – Mayan Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus ibiboboca (Merrem, 1820) – Caatinga Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus isozonus (Cope, 1860) – Venezuela Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus langsdorffi (Wagler, 1824) – Langsdorff's Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus laticollaris (W. C. H. Peters, 1870) – Serpiente-coralillo del Balsas, Balsas Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus latifasciatus K. P. Schmidt, 1933 – Serpiente-coralillo franjas anchas, Broad-ringed Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus lemniscatus (Linnaeus, 1758) – South American Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus limbatus Fraser, 1964 – Serpiente-coralillo de Los Tuxtlas, Tuxtlan Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus margaritifer Roze, 1967 – Speckled Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus medemi Roze, 1967
	Species	Micrurus meridensis Roze, 1989 – Merida Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus mertensi K. P. Schmidt, 1936 – Mertens' Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus mipartitus (A. M. C. Duméril, Bibron and A. H. A. Duméril, 1854) – Redtail Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus mosquitensis K. P. Schmidt, 1933
	Species	Micrurus multifasciatus (Jan, 1858) – Many-banded Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus multiscutatus Rendahl and Vestergreen, 1940 – Cauca Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus narduccii (Jan, 1863) – Andean Blackback Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus nattereri K. P. Schmidt, 1952 – Natterer's Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus nebularis Roze, 1989 – Serpiente-coralillo de niebla, Cloud Forest Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus nigrocinctus (Girard, 1854) – Serpiente-coralillo centroamericana, Central American Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus obscurus (Jan in Jan and Sordelli, 1872) – Bolivian Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus oligoanellatus Ayerbe González and López López, 2002 – Tambito's Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus ornatissimus (Jan, 1858) – Ornate Coralsnake
	Species	Micrurus pacaraimae Morato de Carvalho, 2002
	Species	Micrurus pachecogili Campbell, 2000
	Species	Micrurus paraensis Cunha and Nascimento, 1973
	Species	Micrurus peruvianus K. P. Schmidt, 1936 – Peru Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus petersi Roze, 1967 – Peters' Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus potyguara Pires, da Silva Jr., Feitosa, da Costa-Prudente, Preir-Filho and Zaher, 2014
	Species	Micrurus proximans H. M. Smith and Chrapliwy, 1958 – Serpiente-coralillo nayarita, Nayarit Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus psyches (Daudin, 1803) – Carib Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus putumayensis Lancini, 1962 – Putumayo Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus pyrrhocryptus (Cope, 1862)
	Species	Micrurus remotus Roze, 1987
	Species	Micrurus renjifoi (Lamar, 2003)
	Species	Micrurus ruatanus (Günther, 1895) – Roatan Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus sangilensis Nicéforo-María, 1942 – Santander Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus scutiventris (Cope, 1870) – Pigmy Black-backed Coralsnake
	Species	Micrurus serranus Harvey, Aparicio and González, 2003
	Species	Micrurus silviae Di Bernardo, Borges-Martins and Da Silva, 2007
	Species	Micrurus spixii Wagler, 1824 – Amazon Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus spurrelli (Boulenger, 1914)
	Species	Micrurus steindachneri (Werner, 1901) – Steindachner's Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus stewarti Barbour and Amaral, 1928 – Panamenian Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus stuarti Roze, 1967 – Stuart's Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus surinamensis (Cuvier, 1817) – Aquatic Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus tener (Baird and Girard, 1853) – Texas Coralsnake, Texas Coral Snake
	Species	Micrurus tikuna Feitosa, da Silve Jr., Pires, Zaher and Costa-Prudente, 2015
	Species	Micrurus tschudii (Jan, 1858) – Desert Coral Snake

References


	Expert(s):
	Expert:	Roy W. McDiarmid
	Notes:	U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
	Reference for:	Micrurus

	Other Source(s):
	Source:	Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, database (version undefined)
	Acquired:	2000
	Notes:	CONABIO: (http://www.conabio.gob.mx/)
	Reference for:	Micrurus

	Source:	NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)
	Acquired:	1996
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Micrurus

	Source:	Snake Species of the World, vol. undetermined, manuscript (version 2004)
	Acquired:	2004
	Notes:	Working manuscript of follow-up volumes to McDiarmid et al. (1999), "Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1"
	Reference for:	Micrurus

	Publication(s):
	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner
	Publication Date:	1987
	Article/Chapter Title:	Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Resource Publication, no. 166
	Page(s):	79
	Publisher:	United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service
	Publication Place:	Washington, D.C., USA
	ISBN/ISSN:
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Micrurus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	David, Patrick, and Ivan Ineich
	Publication Date:	1999
	Article/Chapter Title:	Les serpents venimeux du monde: systematique et repartition
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Dumerilia, vol. 3
	Page(s):	3-499
	Publisher:
	Publication Place:
	ISBN/ISSN:	1256-7779
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Micrurus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Flores-Villela, Oscar / McCoy, C. J., ed.
	Publication Date:	1993
	Article/Chapter Title:	Herpetofauna Mexicana: Lista anotada de las especies de anfibios y reptiles de México, cambios taxonómicos recientes, y nuevas especies
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication, no. 17
	Page(s):	iv + 73
	Publisher:	Carnegie Museum of Natural History
	Publication Place:	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-911239-42-1
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Micrurus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Golay, P., et al.
	Publication Date:	1993
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Endoglyphs and Other Major Venomous Snakes of the World: A Checklist
	Page(s):	v + 478
	Publisher:	AZEMIOPS S.A., Herpetological Data Center
	Publication Place:	Aire-Geneva, Switzerland
	ISBN/ISSN:	2-940077-00-2
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Micrurus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Wallach, Van, Kenneth L. Williams, and Jeff Boundy
	Publication Date:	2014
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Snakes of the World. A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species
	Page(s):	1209
	Publisher:	CRC Press
	Publication Place:	Boca Raton, Florida, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	978-1-4822-08474
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Micrurus

Geographic Information


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Comments


	Comment:	Snake genus Micrurus Wagler, 1824 (TSN 174353) is a senior homonym of mammal genus Micrurus Forsyth Major, 1877 (TSN 970322)

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