Micrurus diutius BURGER, 1955
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Micrurus diutius
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| Higher Taxa | Elapidae, Elapoidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Trinidad Ribbon Coral Snake S: Coral Acintada Trinitaria S: Cobra Coral de Faixas de Trinidad |
| Synonym | Micrurus lemniscatus diutius BURGER 1955 Micrurus lemniscatus diutius — GASC & RODRIGUES 1980 Micrurus lemniscatus diutius — WELCH 1994: 85 Micrurus lemniscatus diutus [sic] — STARACE 1998: 361 Micrurus lemniscatus diutius — GORZULA & SEÑARIS 1999 Micrurus lemniscatus diutius — BARRIO-AMOROS et al. 2003 Micrurus lemniscatus diutius — FROTA et al. 2005 Micrurus lemniscatus diutius — FEITOSA et al. 2007 Micrurus diutius — STARACE 2013: 502 Micrurus diutius — JOWERS et al. 2019 Micrurus diutius — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019 Micrurus diutius — PIRES et al. 2021: 69 |
| Distribution | Trinidad, E Venezuela (incl. Carabobo), C Guianas / Guyana, Brazil (Roraima, Amapá, Amazônas, Pará fide Costa & Bérnils 2018; Nogueira et al., 2019) Type locality: “Tunapuna, Trinidad” |
| Reproduction | oviparous. |
| Types | Holotype: FMNH 34472, male; paratypes: Carnegie Museum 7925 (from Cumanacoa, Sucre, Venezuela) and INHS (= UIMNH) 22626, adult male, from Hoso Rora, near Morawhanna, Northeast District, British Guiana |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Micrurus diutius can be distinguished from all other triadal species of Micrurus by the following combination of morphological characters: black snout (rostral, internasals, anterior border of prefrontals, most of nasals, and 1–2 supralabials); white preocular transverse band covers most of prefrontals, anterior border of supraoculars, most of preoculars, and 1–2 supralabials; black cephalic cap includes most of frontal, supraoculars, postoculars, anterior 1⁄3 of parietals, 1⁄3–1⁄2 of temporals, and 2–3 supralabials; remainder of the head red, with or without black-tipped scales; venter of head red; irregular black markings on gulars, and infralabials highly variable; 1st triad separated from parietals by 2–7 scales; middle black ring slightly longer or same length as outer ones; white rings usually shorter than outer black rings; red rings shorter than entire triad or even middle black ring; red and white rings usually black-tipped, but with tendency to a less melanic pattern (Fig. 43C); and 6–16 body triads and 1 1⁄3 –12⁄3 tail triads (Pires et al. 2021: 69). Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data. However, these details, e.g. detailed descriptions (about less than half a page) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us if you need any of this material. |
| Comment | Synonymy: Wallach et al. 2014: 448 listed this species as synonym of Micrurus lemniscatus. |
| Etymology | From the latin “diutius”, meanning too long. From the point of view of potential victims, a meter-long venomous snake is certainly too long (Burger 1955: 40). |
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