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Calliophis bibroni (JAN, 1858)

IUCN Red List - Calliophis bibroni - Least Concern, LC
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Higher TaxaElapidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Bibron's Coral Snake 
SynonymElaps bibroni JAN 1858: 526
Elaps cerasinus BEDDOME 1864 (fide SMITH 1943)
Callophis cerasinus — BEDDOME 1867 (fide SMITH 1943)
Callophis bibronii — BOULENGER 1896: 399
Callophis bibroni — WALL 1906: 305
Callophis bibroni — WALL 1908: 35
Callophis bibroni — SMITH 1943: 425
Calliophis bibroni — WELCH 1994: 39
Calliophis bibroni — SLOWINSKI, BOUNDY & LAWSON 2001
Calliophis bibroni — WALLACH et al. 2014: 144 
DistributionSW India (S Karnataka, Kerala, NW Tamil Nadu)

Type locality: “Western Ghats”  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1946.1.17.93, formerly 74.4.29.52 (in error), now BMNH 74.4.29.51 (C. cerasinus); MNHN-RA 5070 (see Deepak et al. 2010 for a discussion of type issues) 
DiagnosisUnfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 834 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentVenomous!

Variation: see Deepak et al. (2010) for color variants. 
EtymologyNamed after Gabriel Bibron (1806-1848), French zoologist. 
References
  • AROCKIANATHAN, SAMSON; RAMAKRISHNAN BALASUNDARAM, RATHINA-KUMAR SIVASUBRAMANI, RENUKA SIVASHANKER, SANTHOSH KUMAR PALANISHAMY and KARTHICK SIVARAJ. 2014. CALLIOPHIS BIBRONI (Bibroni Coral Snake): REDISCOVERY IN MUDUMALAI TIGER RESERVE, SOUTH INDIA. Herpetological Bulletin (127) - get paper here
  • Beddome, R.H. 1864. Description of a new species of Elaps from Malabar. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1864: 179 - get paper here
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Blackburn, D.G. 1993. STANDARDIZED CRITERIA FOR THE RECOGNITION OF REPRODUCTIVE MODES IN SQUAMATE REPTILES. Herpetologica 49 (1): 118-132 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, Vol. 3. London (Taylor & Francis), xiv + 727 pp. - get paper here
  • Boulenger, George A. 1890. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp. - get paper here
  • Deepak, V.; Harikrishnan, S.; Vasudevan, K. & Smith, E.N. 2010. Redescription of Bibron's coral snake, Calliophis bibroni Jan 1858 with notes and new records from south of the Palghat and Shencottah Gaps of the Western Ghats, India. Hamadryad 35 (1): 1-10 - get paper here
  • Jan, G. 1858. Plan d'une iconographie descriptive des ophidiens et description sommaire de nouvelles espèces des serpents. Rev. Mag. Zool. Paris (2) 10: 438-449, 514-527 - get paper here
  • Khanduri, S., Thirumurugan, V., CS, V., Chinnasamy, R., Das, A., & Talukdar, G. 2022. A note on opportunistic records of reptiles from the Moyar River Valley Landscape, Tamil Nadu, southern India. Journal of Animal Diversity 4 (4) - get paper here
  • Murthy, T.S.N. 2010. The reptile fauna of India. B.R. Publishing, New Delhi, 332 pp.
  • Palot, M.J. 2015. A checklist of reptiles of Kerala, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(13): 8010–8022 - get paper here
  • Raveendran, Dileep Kumar; Deepak V, Eric Nelson Smith, Utpal Smart 2017. A new colour morph of Calliophis bibroni (Squamata: Elapidae) and evidence for Müllerian mimicry in Tropical Indian Coralsnakes. Herpetology Notes 10: 209-217 - get paper here
  • Sharma, R. C. 2004. Handbook Indian Snakes. AKHIL BOOKS, New Delhi, 292 pp.
  • Slowinski, Joseph B.; Boundy, Jeff & Lawson,R. 2001. The phylogenetic relationships of Asian coral snakes (Elapidae: Calliophis and Maticora) based on morphological and molecular characters. Herpetologica 57 (2): 233-245 - get paper here
  • Smith, E.N.; KELUM MANAMENDRA-ARACHCHI & RUCHIRA SOMAWEERA 2008. A new species of coralsnake of the genus Calliophis (Squamata: Elapidae) from the Central Province of Sri Lanka. Zootaxa 1847: 19–33 - get paper here
  • Smith, M.A. 1943. The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-Region. Reptilia and Amphibia. 3 (Serpentes). Taylor and Francis, London. 583 pp.
  • Wall, F. 1906. The poisonous snakes of India and how to recognize them, Part II. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 17: 299-334 - get paper here
  • Wall, F. 1908. The poisonous terrestrial snakes of our British Indian dominions and how to recognise them, 2nd ed. Bombay, Bombay Natural History Society - 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.
 
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