Micrurus distans KENNICOTT, 1860

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Higher Taxa	Elapidae, Colubroidea, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies	Micrurus distans distans (KENNICOTT 1860) Micrurus distans michoacanensis (DUGES 1891) Micrurus distans oliveri ROZE 1967 Micrurus distans zweifeli ROZE 1967
Common Names	West Mexican Coral Snake
Synonym	Micrurus distans distans (KENNICOTT 1860) Elaps distans KENNICOTT 1860 Elaps distans — COPE 1875: 11 Elaps fulvius var. distans — GARMAN 1884: 106 Micrurus diastema distans — SCHMIDT 1933: 39 Micrurus diastema distans — SCHMIDT & SMITH 1943 Micrurus distans distans — ZWEIFEL 1959 Micrurus distans distans — TANNER 1985: 661 Micrurus distans distans — LINER 1994 Micrurus distans distans — LINER 2007 Micrurus distans — WALLACH et al. 2014: 445 Micrurus distans michoacanensis (DUGES 1891) Elaps diastema var. michoacanensis DUGES 1891 Micrurus diastema michoacanensis — SCHMIDT & SMITH 1943 Micrurus diastema michoacanensis — SCHMIDT 1947 Micrurus distans michoacanensis — ZWEIFEL 1959 Micrurus distans michoacanensis — LINER 1994 Micrurus distans michoacanensis — LINER 2007 Micrurus distans oliveri ROZE 1967 Micrurus distans oliveri — WELCH 1994: 81 Micrurus distans oliveri — LINER 2007 Micrurus distans zweifeli ROZE 1967 Micrurus distans zweifeli — WELCH 1994: 81 Micrurus distans zweifeli — LINER 2007
Distribution	distans: Mexico (SW Chihuahua, S Sonora, Sinaloa, south to NW Nayarit); Type locality: Batosegachie, Chihuahua, Mexico. michoacanensis: Mexico (Michoacan, Guerrero) oliveri: Mexico (Colima, Jalisco); Type locality: Periquillo, Colima, Mexico. zweifeli: Mexico (Nayarit, Jalisco, Aguascalientes [HR 31: 114]); Type locality: Laguna Santa Maria, Nayarit, Mexico, between elevations of 2,000 and 4,000 ft.
Reproduction	oviparous.
Types	Holotype: USNM 1144, male Holotype: MDUG Duges Museum, Mexico, lost fide ROZE 1996; neoype: MDUG HE 1, designated by Smith & Necker 1943 [michoacanensis] Holotype: AMNH 12780, a male [oliveri] Holotype: CAS 95769, a male [zweifeli]
Diagnosis
Comment	Venomous!
Etymology
References	Campbell, J.A. 2000. A new species of venomous coral snake (Serpentes: Elapidae) from high desert in Puebla, Mexico. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 113 (1): 291-297 - get paper here Campbell, J.A. & Lamar, W.W. 1989. The Venomous Reptiles of Latin America. Comstock Publishing/Cornell University Press, Ithaca Cobarrubias, Edgar Flores; Daniel Cruz-Sáenz, and David Lazcano 2012. Notes on the Herpetofauna of Western Mexico 6: Amphibians and Reptiles of Hostotipaquillo, Jalisco, Mexico. Bull. Chicago Herp. Soc. 47 (2):21-26 - get paper here Cope, E.D. 1875. The herpetology of Florida. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1875: 10-11 - get paper here Dugès,A.A.D. 1891. Elaps diastema var. michoacanensis A. Dug. Naturaleza, Mexico, Ser. 2, 1: 487 - get paper here Dugès, A. 1896. Note sur l’Elaps michoacanensis. Bulletin du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, 44, 60–61 Enderson, Erik F.; Thomas R. Van Devender, Robert L. Bezy 2014. Amphibians and reptiles of Yécora, Sonora and the Madrean Tropical Zone of the Sierra Madre Occidental in northwestern Mexico. Check List 10 (4): 913-926 - get paper here García, A. & Ceballos, G. 1994. GUIA DE CAMPO DE LOS REPTILES Y ANFIBIOS DE LA COSTA DE JALISCO, MEXICO. FUNDACION ECOLOGICA DE CUIXMALA, A.C. INSTITUTO DE BIOLOGIA, UNAM GUO, PENG; FEI ZHU, QIN LIU, LIANG ZHANG, JIAN X. LI, YU Y. HUANG & R. ALEXANDER PYRON 2014. A taxonomic revision of the Asian keelback snakes, genus Amphiesma (Serpentes: Colubridae: Natricinae), with description of a new species. Zootaxa 3873 (4): 425–440 - get paper here Hardy, L.M., & McDiarmid, R.W. 1969. The amphibians and reptiles of Sinaloa, Mexico. Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. 18 (3): 39-252. - get paper here Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp Kennicott, R. 1860. Descriptions of new species of North American serpents in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 12: 328-338 - get paper here Liner, Ernest A. 2007. A CHECKLIST OF THE AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES OF MEXICO. Louisiana State University Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural Science 80: 1-60 - get paper here Luja VH, López JA, Cruz-Elizalde R, Ramírez-Bautista A 2017. Herpetofauna inside and outside from a natural protected area: the case of Reserva Estatal de la Biósfera Sierra San Juan, Nayarit, Mexico. Nature Conservation 21: 15-38 - get paper here McCranie, J.R. & Wilson, L.D. 2001. The herpetofauna of the Mexican State of Aguascalientes. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 230: 1-57 PALACIOS-AGUILAR, RICARDO & OSCAR FLORES-VILLELA 2018. An updated checklist of the herpetofauna from Guerrero, Mexico. Zootaxa 4422 (1): 1-24 - get paper here Schmidt, K. E, & SMITH, H. M. 1943. Notes on coral snakes from México. Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Zool. Ser. 29: 25-31. - get paper here Schmidt, K. P. 1933. Preliminary account of the coral snakes of Central America and Mexico. Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Zool. Ser. 20: 29-40. - get paper here Schmidt, Karl P.;Shannon, Frederick A. 1947. Notes on amphibians and reptiles of Michoacan, Mexico. Zoological Series of Field Museum of Natural History 31 (9): 63-85 Tanner, Wilmer W. 1985. Snakes of Western Chihuahua. Great Basin Naturalist 45 (4): 615-676 - get paper here Tim, Warfel., Matt Cage and Dirk J. Stevenson. 2015. Micurus distans distans (West Mexican coralsnake) diet. Herpetological Review 46 (2): 275 Vázquez Díaz, Joel;Quintero Díaz, Gustavo E. 2005. Anfibios y Reptiles de Aguascalientes [2nd ed.]. CONABIO, CIEMA, 318 pp. 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. Webb, R.G. 1984. Herpetogeography in the Mazatlán-Durango Region of the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico. Vetrebrate Ecology and Systematics - A ribute to Henry S. Fitch; Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, Lawrence, pp. 217-241 Zweifel, Richard G. 1959. Additions to the herpetofauna of Nayarit, Mexico. American Museum Novitates (1953): 1-13 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List - Micrurus distans - Least Concern, LC National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.desertmuseum.org/programs/yecora_fauna.html Google images

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