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Micrurus laticollaris PETERS, 1870

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Higher TaxaElapidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
SubspeciesMicrurus laticollaris laticollaris (PETERS 1870)
Micrurus laticollaris maculirostris ROZE 1967 
Common NamesE: Double collar coral snake, Balsas Coral Snake
E: Eastern double collar coral snake [laticollaris]
E: Western double collar coral snake [maculirostris]
S: Coralillo de Doble Collar 
SynonymElaps macgravii var. laticollaris PETERS 1870
Elaps marcgravii laticollaris PETERS 1869
Elaps laticollaris — GARMAN 1884: 107
Micrurus laticollaris — LINER 1994
Micrurus laticollaris laticollaris — LINER 2007
Micrurus laticollaris — WALLACH et al. 2014: 448

Micrurus laticollaris maculirostris ROZE 1967
Micrurus laticollaris maculirostris — LINER 2007 
DistributionMexico (Michoacan, Guerrero, Jalisco, Morelos, Puebla, Oaxaca, Mexico)

laticollaris: Mexico (Michoacan, Guerrero, Puebla, Morelos)
maculirostris: Mexico (Colima, Jalisco)

Type locality: Puebla, by implication; “probably Matamoros, Puebla” fide SMITH & TAYLOR (1945); explicitely restricted to “Matamoros (Izúcar)” by SMITH & TAYLOR (1950) [cited after BAUER 1995].  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: ZMB 6659A-B, FMNH 95836 (fide MARX 1958).
Holotype: KU 32546 [maculirostris] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A small coral snake of usual cylindrical form and normal Micrurus scale pattern, with black rings arranged in triads, the middle broader in each group, one separated from the outer ones by broad yellow rings, the first triad incomplete, ventrals in males about 210, in females 218, caudals respectively 43 and 39; temporals uniformly 1-2 [from SCHMIDT 1958].


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CommentMARX 1958 listed FMNH 95836 as cotype, implying that the “type” was among the remaining ZMB specimens. DIXON et al. (in GOLAY et al. 1993) regarded ZMB 6659 as the lectotype, apparently accepting MARX’s action as an implicit designation. However, as two specimens remain under this number in Berlin, no action to date has selected a single lectotype and all members of the type series should be regarded as syntypes (from BAUER 1995). Venomous!


The common name is derived from the Balsas river in south-central Mexico, along which this species appears to occur. 
EtymologyLatin from lati- meaning broad or wide and collari meaning of the collar, referring to the long black nuchal band.

M. l. maculirostris was named after Latin macular = spot, and rostrum = beak, proboscis, trunk, alluding to the light dots on the snout. 
References
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