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Leptomicrurus scutiventris (COPE, 1870)

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Higher TaxaElapidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Little black coral snake, Pigmy black-backed coralsnake
Portuguese: Cobra-Coral, Coral-Verdadeira, Cobra-Coral-Pequena 
SynonymElaps scutiventris COPE 1870: 156
Leptomicrurus schmidti HOGE & ROMANO-HOGE 1966
Micrurus karlschmidti HOGE & ROMANO-HOGE 1972
Leptomicrurus scutiventris ROZE & BERNAL-CARLO 1987: 595
Leptomicrurus schmidti — WELCH 1994: 73
Micrurus scutiventris — SLOWINSKI 1995
Leptomicrurus scutiventris — ROZE 1996: 135
Micrurus scutiventris — SLOWINSKI et al. 2001
Leptomicrurus scutiventris — CAMPBELL & LAMAR 2004: 130
Micrurus scutiventris — WALLACH et al. 2014: 453
Micrurus scutiventris — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019
Leptomicrurus scutiventris — SILVA et al. 2021: 127 
DistributionBrazil (Roraima, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

Type locality: "Pebas on the Amazon in Equador. [=Departamento Loreto, NE Perú].  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ANSP 6801, a 445 female (J. Orton). 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1614 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentVenomous! 
EtymologyNamed after Latin scuti- a shield or scale and venter meaning belly; scutiventris, one with ventral scales, probably alludes to the relatively high number of ventrals in this species. 
References
  • Campbell, J.A. & Lamar, W.W. 1989. The Venomous Reptiles of Latin America. Comstock Publishing/Cornell University Press, Ithaca
  • 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]
  • Cope, E.D. 1870. Seventh contribution to the herpetology of tropical America. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 11: 147-169 [1869] - get paper here
  • 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
  • Hoge, A.R. & Romano, S. 1966. Leptomicrurus in Brasil (Serpentes: Elapidae). Mem. Inst. Butantan 32 [1965]: 1-8 - get paper here
  • Hoge, A.R. & Romano,S. 1973. Sinopse das serpentes peçonhentas do Brasil. Serpentes, Elapidae e Viperidae. Mem. Inst. Butantan 36 [1972]: 109-207 - get paper here
  • Morato de Carvalho, C. et al. 2021. VERTEBRADOS TERRESTRES DE RORAIMA BIOLOGIA GERAL E EXPERIMENTAL 20/21 (1): - 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
  • Roze, Janis A. & Bernal-Carlo, Amanda 1988. Las serpientes corales venenonas del género Leptomicrurus (Serpentes, Elapidae) de Suramérica con descripción de una nueva subespecie. Bollettino del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino 5 (2): 573-608 [1987]
  • 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
  • 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
  • Torres-Carvajal O, Pazmiño-Otamendi G, Salazar-Valenzuela D. 2019. Reptiles of Ecuador: a resource-rich portal, with a dynamic checklist and photographic guides. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 13 (1): [General Section]: 209–229 (e178) - get paper here
  • Valencia, J. H., K. Garzón-Tello & M. E. Barragán-Paladines 2016. Serpientes venenosas del Ecuador: sistemática, taxonomía, historia natural, conservación, envenenamiento y aspectos antropológicos. Quito, Ecuador, Fundación Herpetológica Gustavo Orcés, Universidad de Texas, Fondo Ambiental Nacional, 652 pp. [review in HR 49 (1): 152, 2018]
  • 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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