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Micrurus browni SCHMIDT & SMITH, 1943

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Higher TaxaElapidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
SubspeciesMicrurus browni browni SCHMIDT & SMITH 1943
Micrurus browni taylori SCHMIDT & SMITH 1943 
Common NamesE: Sierra Madre coral snake, Brown's Coral Snake
S: Coralillo de Sierra Madre 
SynonymMicrurus nigrocinctus browni SCHMIDT & SMITH 1943
Micrurus browni — LAURENT 1949: 18
Micrurus nigrocinctus browni — ALVAREZ DEL TORO & SMITH 1956: 17
Micrurus nigrocinctus browni — ZWEIFEL 1959
Micrurus browni — LINER 1994
Micrurus browni browni — LINER 2007
Micrurus browni — WALLACH et al. 2014: 443
Micrurus browni — REYES-VELASCO et al. 2020

Micrurus browni taylori SCHMIDT & SMITH 1943
Micrurus nuchalis taylori — SCHMIDT & SMITH 1943
Micrurus browni taylori — LINER 2007 
DistributionSW Mexico (Jalisco, Nayarit, Chiapas, Oaxaca), W Guatemala, Honduras (elevation 1900 m)

browni: Mexico, W Guatemal; Type locality: Mexico, Guerrero, Chilpancingo.

taylori: Mexico (Guerrero); Type locality: Acapulco, Guerrero.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: FMNH 38494
Holotype: FMNH 100051 [taylori] 
Diagnosis 
CommentMicrurus browni importunus is mimicked by Pliocercus elapoides diastema (see SMITH & CHISZAR 2001).

Venomous!

Distribution: not in Quintana Roo (Mexico), fide Gonzalez-Sanchez et al. 2017. 
Etymologynamed after W. W. Brown, the collector of the holotype. 
References
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