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Micrurus potyguara PIRES, DA SILVA Jr, FEITOSA, PRUDENTE, PEREIRA-FILHO & ZAHER, 2014

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Higher TaxaElapidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Potyguara coral snake
Portuguese: Cobra-Coral, Coral-Verdadeira 
SynonymMicrurus potyguara PIRES, DA SILVA Jr, FEITOSA, COSTA-PRUDENTE, PEREIRA-FILHO & ZAHER 2014
Micrurus lemniscatus carvalhoi ROZE 1967: 33 (partim)
Micrurus potyguara — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019 
DistributionNE Brazil (Paraíba,Pernambuco)

Type locality: Mata do Buraquinho (7°8' 42.08"S, 34° 51'42.40"W), municipality of João Pessoa, state of Paraíba.  
Reproductionoviparous. 
TypesHolotype: UFPB 4359, adult male, collected by Gentil Alves Pereira Filho on August 22, 2006 Paratypes. Five specimens: adult female (Figure 1), UFPB 4355, collected on April 11, 2006; adult male, UFPB 4358, collected by Gentil Alves Pereira Filho on August 21, 2006; adult female, UFPB 4361 collected by Gentil Alves Pereira Filho on September 6, 2006 from Mata do Buraquinho, João Pessoa. NRM 1685, immature male, donated by N. E. Forssell to the museum in 1847 from municipality of Recife (8°3'S, 34°53'W), state of Pernambuco; and adult female, CAS 49297, collected by H. Heath on November 30, 1910 from Lagoa de Paparí (6°7'38.13"S, 35°9'54.64"W), municipality of Nísia Floresta, state of Rio Grande do Norte. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Micrurus potyguara is distinguished from all other triadal species of Micrurus by combination of the following characters: a) parietals entirely black; b) head conspicuously broader than neck; c) posterior nasal scale black; d) frontal shield longer than distance from its anterior margin to the tip of the snout; e) infralabials mostly black; f) middle black rings of triads shorter or as long as the outer ones; g) gular region red with small disperse black blotches on posterior region of scales; h) tip of snout entirely black (rostral, internasals and nasals); d) black rings with similar length or central black ring slightly shorter than the anterior and posterior black rings of the triads.
 
CommentSympatry: M. ibiboboca 
EtymologyThe specific epithet “potyguara” is a Tupi indigenous name, here employed as a noun in apposition (poty = shrimp; `war = eaters) (Gregório 1980). This name refers to the denomination of a native people that occupied historically the northeastern coast of Brazil, for which the shrimp fishing is one of the most traditional economic activities. 
References
  • Filho, G.A.P. et al. 2023. Composition, Species Richness, and Conservation of the Reptiles of the Highly Threatened Northern Brazilian Atlantic Forest. In: Pereira Filho, G.A., França, F.G.R., Alves, R.R.N., Vasconcellos, A. (eds) Animal Biodiversity and Conservation in Brazil's Northern Atlantic Forest. Springer, Cham - get paper here
  • França RC, Solé M and França FGR 2024. Conservation status of Brazilian snakes inhabiting the Atlantic Forest of Northeastern Brazil. Front. Ecol. Evol. 12:1301717 - 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
  • Melo, Íris Virgínea; Geraldo Jorge Barbosa de Moura, Marco Antonio de Freitas, Edson Victor Euclides de Andrade, Cláudio Casal, Arthur Diesel Abegg, Marcelo Nogueira de Carvalho Kakubum 2018. New additions to herpetofauna of the Parque Estadual Dois Irmãos, an urban Atlantic Rainforest Fragment, Recife municipality, Pernambuco state, northeastern Brazil. Herpetology Notes 11: 245-254 - get paper here
  • Mesquita, Daniel Oliveira; Brygida Alves, Carmem Pedro, Daniel Laranjeiras, Francis Caldas, Isabella Pedrosa, Jefter Rodrigues, Leandro Drummond, Lucas Cavalcanti, Milena Wachlevski, Paulo Nogueira-Costa, Rafaela França, Frederico França 2018. Herpetofauna in two habitat types (tabuleiros and Stational Semidecidual Forest) in the Reserva Biológica Guaribas, northeastern Brazil. Herpetology Notes 11: 455-474 - get paper here
  • Nascimento, L. R., Graboski, R., Silva JR, N. J., & Prudente, A. L. 2024. Integrative taxonomy of Micrurus ibiboboca (Merrem, 1820)(Serpentes, Elapidae) reveals three new species of coral snake. Systematics and Biodiversity, 22(1): 2315958 - 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
  • Pires, Matheus Godoy; Nelson Jorge da Silva Jr., Darlan Tavares Feitosa, ANA LÚCIA DA COSTA PRUDENTE, GENTIL ALVES PEREIRA FILHO & Hussam ZAHER 2014. A new species of triadal coral snake of the genus Micrurus Wagler, 1824 (Serpentes: Elapidae) from northeastern Brazil . Zootaxa 3811 (4): 569–584 - 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
  • Sampaio ILR, Santos CP, França RC, Pedrosa IMMC, Solé M, França FGR 2018. Ecological diversity of a snake assemblage from the Atlantic Forest at the south coast of Paraíba, northeast Brazil. ZooKeys 787: 107-125 - get paper here
 
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