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Micrurus albicinctus AMARAL, 1925

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Higher TaxaElapidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: White-banded Coral Snake
S: Cobra Coral de Cinta Branca
Portuguese: Cobra-Coral, Cobra-Coral-Preta-e-Branca, Cobra-Coral-de-Cinta-Branca, Coral-Verdadeira 
SynonymMicrurus albicinctus AMARAL 1925
Micrurus waehnerorum MEISE 1938
Micrurus albicinctus — PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970: 201
Micrurus albicinctus — DA CUNHA & NASCIMENTO 1991
Micrurus albicinctus — ROZE 1996: 138
Micrurus albicinctus — CAMPBELL & LAMAR 2004: 145
Micrurus albicinctus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 441
Micrurus albicinctus — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019 
DistributionColombia, Brazil (Rondonia, Mato Grosso, Amazonas), Peru

Type locality: “northern or central Mato Grosso" (Brazil)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MNRJ 376, a male, collected by Comissäo Rondon. 
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CommentSynonymy partly after PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970.

Venomous!

Distribution (map): Map 5 in CAMPBELL & LAMAR 2004: 145. See map in Nogueira et al. 2019. 
EtymologyLatin albicinctus comes from alba meaning white and cinctus meaning banded or girdled; thus, the white-banded one. The name waehnerorum is dedicated to Mr. and Mrs. Wahner, a German couple who collected snakes in the Amazon region and presented them to the Dresden Museum in Germany. 
References
  • Amaral, A. do 1925. Ophidios de Mato Grosso (Contribuição II para o conhecimento dos ophidios do Brasil). Comm. Linhas Telegraph. Estrat. Matto Grosso ao Amazonas. [also listed as Hist. Natural. Zool.] Publ. 84 (Anexo 5): 1-30
  • Barbosa de Souza, M., and C. Rivera G. 2006. Anfibios y reptile /Amphibians and reptiles. Pp. 83 – 86 y / and 182 – 185 en /in C. Vriesendorp, T. S. Schulenberg, W. S. Alverson, D. K. Moskovits, y / and J.-I. Rojas Moscoso, (eds.). Perú: Sierra del Divisor, Rapid Biological Inventories Report 17. The Field Museum, Chicago
  • 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
  • BERNARDE, P.S., ALBUQUERQUE, S., BARROS, T.O. & TURCI, L.C.B. 2012. Serpentes do Estado de Rondônia, Brasil. Biota Neotropica 12 (3): 1-29 - get paper here
  • Cunha, O.R. da and Nascimento,F.P. 1991. Ofídios da Amazônia. XXII : Revalidaõ e redescrião de Micrurus albicinctus Amaral, de Rondónia, e sobre a validade de Micrurus waehnerorum Meise, do amazonas (Ophidia : Elapidae). Boletim do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi ser., Zool.) 7 (1): 43-52 - get paper here
  • 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
  • Masseli, G.S., Cunha, F.A.G. & Dos Santos, J.G. 2018. Micrurus albicinctus (White-banded Coralsnake) and Micrurus hemprichii (Hemprich's Coralsnake) Diet and predation. Herpetological Review 49 (1): 134. - get paper here
  • Meise,Wilhelm 1938. Eine neue Korallenschlange aus dem Amazonasgebiet. Zool. Anz. 123: 20
  • 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
  • Souza, Sergio Marques; André Braga Junqueira, Ana Catarina Conte Jakovac, Paulo Apóstolo Assunção and José Adaílton Correia. 2011. Feeding behavior and ophiophagous habits of two poorly known amazonian coral snakes, Micrurus albicinctus Amaral 1926 and Micrurus paraensis Cunha and Nascimento 1973 (Squamata, Elapidae). Herpetology Notes 4: 369-372 - 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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