Micrurus pacaraimae MORATO DE CARVALHO, 2002

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Higher Taxa	Elapidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Pacaraima coral snake Portuguese: Cobra-Coral, Coral-Verdadeira, Cobra-Coral-Vermelha
Synonym	Micrurus pacaraimae MORATO DE CARVALHO 2002 Micrurus pacaraimae — WALLACH et al. 2014: 451 Micrurus pacaraimae — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019
Distribution	Brazil (Roraima), possibly in Venezuela Type locality: Brasil: Vila Pacaraima: Rodovia BR – 174 na fronteira com a Venezuela (04°31’N, 61°09’W).
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MZUSP 8565, male, 313 + 42 mm
Diagnosis	Diagnosis (original): Colorido dorsal e ventral vermelho e negro no corpo e cauda, garganta branca. Capuz cefálico negro em contato com o anel nucal negro. Anéis negros 23, simples; anéis vermelhos cerca de quatro vezes mais largos que os negros. Ventrais 201, subcaudais 43, anal dividida, tubérculos supra-anais ausentes. (Morato de Carvalho 2002) Additional details (51 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Venomous!
Etymology	named after its type locality.
References	FEITOSA, DARLAN TAVARES; NELSON JORGE DA SILVA JR., MATHEUS GODOY PIRES, HUSSAM ZAHER & ANA LÚCIA DA COSTA PRUDENTE 2015. A new species of monadal coral snake of the genus Micrurus (Serpentes, Elapidae) from western Amazon. Zootaxa 3974 (4): 538–554 Gonzalez R. C. et al. 2020. Lista dos Nomes Populares dos Répteis no Brasil – Primeira Versão. Herpetologia Brasileira 9 (2): 121 – 214 - get paper here Morato de Carvalho, C. 2002. Descrição de uma nova espécie de Micrurus do Estado de Roraima, Brasil (Serpentes, Elapidae). Pap. Avul. Zool., Sao Paulo 42(8):183-192 - get paper here Nogueira, Cristiano C.; Antonio J.S. Argôlo, Vanesa Arzamendia, Josué A. Azevedo, Fausto E. Barbo, Renato S. Bérnils, Bruna E. Bolochio, Marcio Borges-Martins, Marcela Brasil-Godinho, Henrique Braz, Marcus A. Buononato, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, 2019. Atlas of Brazilian snakes: verified point-locality maps to mitigate the Wallacean shortfall in a megadiverse snake fauna. South American J. Herp. 14 (Special Issue 1):1-274 - get paper here Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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