Micrurus

Guedes, Thaís B., Nogueira, Cristiano & Marques, Otavio A. V., 2014, Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil, Zootaxa 3863 (1), pp. 1-93 : 27

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3863.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A683CABE-4305-47A4-A063-03FDF93182C0

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6125553

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/465F3358-FFDC-FFC8-FF09-FA30FBC015FB

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Plazi

scientific name

Micrurus
status

 

Micrurus sp. ( Merrem, 1820) “Cobra-de-coral, Coral-da-legítima”

(Figs. 11.2 and 23.4)

Caatinga endemic species. It was recorded in all states in the Caatinga, being the most abundant and widespread coral snake in this region. It was called Micrurus ibiboboca by Vanzolini et al. (1980), but they raise the possibility that specimens collected in the semi-arid Caatinga belong to an undescribed new species. It does not fit the original description proposed by Merrem (1820). It is distributed in all phytophysiognomies described for the Caatinga in this work, from sea level to 800 m elevation. It has fossorial habits, is nocturnal and diurnal, and feeds mostly on elongated vertebrates ( Vanzolini et al. 1980; Vitt & Vangilder 1983; Argôlo 2004).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Elapidae

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