Micrurus putumayensis LANCINI, 1962

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Higher Taxa	Elapidae, Elapoidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Putumayo Coral Snake Portuguese: Cobra-Coral, Coral-Verdadeira, Cobra-Coral-Amarela
Synonym	Micrurus schmidti LANCINI 1962 Micrurus putumayensis LANCINI 1962 (nom. nov.) Micrurus putumayensis — WELCH 1994: 89 Micrurus putumayensis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 452 Micrurus putumayensis — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019
Distribution	Peru (Loreto), NW Brazil, SE Colombia Type locality: "Puerto Socorro (a 270 Km. NE. de Iquitos), Rio Putumayo, Departamento de Loreto, República del Perú.”
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MCNC Herp. 1117, a 624 mm female (J. Cáceres M., March 1959). (type=AMNH 11058 fide Golay et al., 1993: 180)
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Comment	Venomous!
Etymology	The Latin name putumayensis, meaning inhabitant of Putumayo, alludes to its presence in the region around the Putumayo River.
References	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, J.A. & Lamar, W.W. 1989. The Venomous Reptiles of Latin America. Comstock Publishing/Cornell University Press, Ithaca 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 Lancini V., A. R. 1962. Un cambio de nombre para una serpiente coral (Elapidae: Micrurus) del Peru. Publicaciones Ocasionales del Museo de Ciencias Naturales Caracas, Venezuela (3): 1 Lancini V., A. R. 1962. Una nueva especie de Serpiente coral (Serpentes: Elapidae) del Peru. Publicaciones Ocasionales del Museo de Ciencias Naturales Caracas, Venezuela (2): 1-3 Lema, Thales de 1972. Sobre Micrurus putumayensis Lancini, 1962 e sua ocorrencia no Brasil - (Serpentes, Elapidae). Iheringia, Série Zoologia 41: 35-58 Metcalf, M. F., Guedouar, E., Davis, L., Rodriguez, A., Marsh, A., Pacaya, E. T., ... & Gunnels IV, C. W. 2023. Herpetofauna of Madre Selva Biological Station in Loreto, Peru. Herpetology Notes, 16, 727-740 - 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 Silva Jr, Nelson Jorge da; Marcus Augusto Buononato & Darlan Tavares Feitosa 2016. AS COBRAS-CORAIS DO NOVO MUNDO. In: Silva (ed) Cobras corais do Brasil. Goiânia, pp. 41-69 Silva, Jr., Nelson Jorge da; Darlan Tavares Feitosa, Matheus Godoy Pires, and Ana Lúcia da Costa Prudente 2021. CHAPTER 5. CORALSNAKE DIVERSITY IN BRAZIL. In: Nelson Jorge da Silva Jr. et al. (eds.) Advances in Coralsnake Biology. Eagle Mountain Publishing, pp. 142-252 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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