Micrurus tricolor HOGE, 1956
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Micrurus tricolor
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| Higher Taxa | Elapidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Pantanal Coral Snake Portuguese: Cobra-Coral, Coral, Coral-Verdadeira, Cobra-Coral-de-Três-Cores |
| Synonym | Micrurus tricolor HOGE 1956: 67 Micrurus frontalis tricolor — ROZE 1983 Micrurus frontalis tricolor — WELCH 1994: 83 Micrurus pyrrhocryptus tricolor — ROZE 1994: 179 Micrurus tricolor — DA SILVA & SITES 1999: 172 Micrurus tricolor — DI BERNARDO et al. 2007 Micrurus tricolor — COSTA & BERNILS 2018 Micrurus tricolor — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019 |
| Distribution | Brazil (Mato Grosso), adjacent Paraguay Type locality: Garandazal, Mato Grosso, Brazil. |
| Reproduction | oviparous. |
| Types | Holotype: IB 16290 |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: (1) Dorsal pattern of white, red, and black triads; (2) hemipenis and tail relatively short; (3) two supralabials entering orbit; (4) mental usually separated from chinshields by medial contact of first pair of infralabials; (5) anal scale usually divided; (6) first triad complete; (7) 5-12 red vertebrals separating first triad from parietals; (8) all dorsal head scales including parietals black, edged in white; (9) red rings with heavier black apices than white rings; (10) white rings longest dorsally, constricted or broken ventrally by black rings; (11) chin red with no to moderate black mottling and edging of scales; mental mostly or entirely red; (12) 6-14 triads on body, 1-1.67 on tail [HARVEY et al. 2003]. |
| Comment | Synonymy: M. tricolor has been synonymized with M. pyrrhocryptus by previous authors (e.g. Wallach et al. 2014) but treated as valid more recently. Subspecies: Micrurus tricolor has been considered as a subspecies or synonym of pyrrhocryptus, but has been elevated to species status by Silva & Sites 1999, although only some authors have followed that decision. Distribution: tricolor is not in Bolivia but pyrrhocryptus from Boliva has been misidentified as tricolor (Harvey et al. 2003). See map in Nogueira et al. 2019. Venomous! Similar species: Mimicked by the nonvenomous species Lystrophis pulcher. |
| Etymology | Named after the color pattern. |
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