Leptomicrurus renjifoi LAMAR, 2003

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Higher Taxa	Elapidae, Elapoidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Renjifo’s coral snake
Synonym	Leptomicrurus renjifoi LAMAR 2003 Micrurus renjifoi — SLOWINSKI 2001 (by implication) Leptomicrurus renjifoi — CAMPBELL & LAMAR 2004: 130 Micrurus renjifoi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 453 Leptomicrurus renjifoi — SILVA et al. 2021: 127 Micrurus renjifoi — FRATELES et al. 2026
Distribution	Colombia Type locality: the south side of the Río Tomo, near its juncture with the Río Orinoco, 97 km SSW of Puerto Carreño, Comisaría del Vichada, Colombia, elevation 115 m
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: UTA R-3490, a gravid adult female.
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Comment	Venomous! Synonymy: SLOWINSKI et al. 2001 synonymized Leptomicrurus with Micrurus, thus this new species may be a member of Micrurus too, but see Leptomicrurus collaris, the type species of Leptomicrurus. Distribution: not in Colombia fide Bernal (2025).
Etymology	Named after Juan Manuel Renjifo, a Colombian herpetologist who has contributed to our knowledge of venomous snakes of that region.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Bernal, R. 2025. Serpientes de Colombia-Guía de Campo. Serie de Guías Tropicales de Campo. 19: 396 pp. Conservación Internacional Colombia, Bogotá - get paper here Campbell, Jonathan A. and William W. Lamar 2004. The Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere, 2 vols. Comstock (Cornell University Press), Ithaca, NY, 962 pp. [review in Science 305: 182] Frateles, L. E., Terribile, L., Diniz-Filho, J., Stropp, J., da Costa Prudente, A. L., Feitosa, D., Franco, F., de Souza Nascimento, L., da Silva, N. J., Jr., Rodrigues de Almeida, P., Passos, P., Bosque, R., Bérnils, R., & Meyer, L. 2026. Macroecological correlates of taxonomic uncertainty in New World coralsnakes. Amphibia-Reptilia (published online ahead of print 2026) - get paper here Lamar, W.W. 2003. A new species of slender coralsnake from Colombia, and its clinal and ontogenetic variation (Serpentes, Elapidae: Leptomicrurus). Revista de Biologia Tropical 51(3-4):805-810 - get paper here Silva, Jr., Nelson Jorge da; Marcus Augusto Buononato, Matheus Godoy Pires, and Darlan Tavares Feitosa 2021. CHAPTER 4. NEW WORLD CORALSNAKES: AN OVERVIEW. In: Nelson Jorge da Silva Jr. et al. (eds.) Advances in Coralsnake Biology. Eagle Mountain Publishing, pp. 115-141 Sprackland, R. G. 2001. Dwarf monitors. Reptile and Amphibian Hobbyist 6 (10): 8-16 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 https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/318869517004320 Google images

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