| Higher Taxa | Elapidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Common Names | E: Panamenian Coral Snake |
| Synonym | Micrurus stewarti stewarti BARBOUR & AMARAL 1928: 100
Micrurus stewarti BARBOUR & AMARAL 1928
Micrurus schmidti DUNN 1940: 119
Micrurus smithi — MERTENS 1956: 544 (in error fide CAMPBELL & LAMAR 2004)
Micrurus stewarti — ROZE 1967: 47
Micrurus stewarti — WELCH 1994: 89
Micrurus stewarti — ROZE 1996: 220
Micrurus stewarti — WALLACH et al. 2014: 454 |
| Distribution | Panama (around Canal Zone)
Type locality: Sierra de Bruja, Panama.
schmidti: Panama; Type locality: El VAlle de Anton, 2000 m elevation, some 50 miles west of Canal Zone.
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: MCZ R-24924
Holotype: ANSP 21645, male; paratype: ANSP (female) [schmidti] |
| Diagnosis | |
| Comment | Synonymy after PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970 and ROZE 1996.
Venomous!
Abundance: This is a rare species: only 8 specimens have reached museums and nothing is known about its way of life (Roze 1996). |
| Etymology | Named after Thomas H. Stewart, collector of the holotype. |
| References |
- Barbour, Thomas & Amaral,A. 1928. A new elapid from Western Panama. Bull. Antivenin Inst. America 1: 100
- Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
- Campbell, J.A. & Lamar, W.W. 1989. The Venomous Reptiles of Latin America. Comstock Publishing/Cornell University Press, Ithaca
- Dunn,E.R. 1940. New and noteworthy herpetological material from Panamá. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia. 92: 105-122. - get paper here
- Evans, H. E. 1947. Notes on Panamanian reptiles and amphibians. Copeia 1947 (3): 166-170. - get paper here
- Köhler, G. 2008. Reptiles of Central America. 2nd Ed. Herpeton-Verlag, 400 pp.
- Lotzkat S, Wehrenberg G, Haas M, Köhler G 2021. Amphibians (Amphibia, Anura and Caudata) and reptiles (Reptilia, Squamata) from the headwaters of Río Guázaro on the Caribbean versant of Veraguas province, western Panama. Check List 17(6): 1541-1556 - get paper here
- Mertens, R. 1956. Das Problem der Mimikry bei Korallenschlangen. Zool. Jahrb., Abt Syst. Ökol. Geogr. Tiere 84: 541-576 + plates 6-14
- Mertens, R. 1956. Das Problem der Mimikry bei Korallenschlangen. English Translation by Andrew Durso. SMITHSONIAN HERPETOLOGICAL INFORMATION SERVICE 160 (2023) - get paper here
- Ray, Julie M. and Patty Ruback 2015. Updated checklists of snakes for the provinces of Panamá and Panamá Oeste, Republic of Panama. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2 (2): 168-188 - get paper here
- Roze, Jánis A 1967. A checklist of the New World venomous Coral Snakes (Elapidae), with descriptions of new forms. American Museum Novitates (2287): 1-60 - 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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