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    Species Accepted

    Micrurus dissoleucus Cope, 1860

    Barranquilla pygmy coral snake [nigrirostris]
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Micrurus
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      13 results
      Barranquilla pygmy coral snake [nigrirostris] English
      Candelilla Spanish
      Coral Pigmea Spanish
      Dværgkoralslange Danish
      Panama pygmy coral snake [dunni] English
      Pigmy Coral Snake English
      Pygmy Coral Snake English
      Santa Marta pygmy coral snake [melanogenys] English
      Serpente corallo pigmeo Italian
      Venezuelan pygmy coral snake [dissoleucus] English

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Roze J A. (1989). New species and subspecies of coral snakes, genus Micrurus (Elapidae), with notes on type specimens of several species. American Museum Novitates (2932) : 1-15.
      Cope, E. D. (1860). Supplement to “A catalogue of the venomous serpents in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, with notes on the families, genera, and species.”. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1860: 72-74.
      Amaral, & do, A. (1925). South American snakes in the collection of the United States National Museum. Proc. US Natl. Mus. 67 (24): 1-30.
      Jan, G. (1858). Plan d’une iconographie descriptive des ophidiens et description sommaire de nouvelles espèces des serpents. Rev. Mag. Zool. Paris (2) 10: 438-449, 514-527.
      Griffin, L. F. (1916). A catalog of the Ophidia from South America at present (June 1916) contained in the Carnegie Museum with descriptions of some new species. Mem. Carnegie Mus. 7 (3) [1915]: 163-228.
      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.
      Barrio Amorós, & César Luis and Daniel Calcaño. (2003). First record of Micrurus lemniscatus (Linnaeus, 1758) from western Venezuela with comments on coral snakes from the eastern Andean piedmont (Squamata: Serpentes: Elapidae). Herpetozoa 16 (1/2):73-78.
      Burger, W. L. (1955). A new subspecies of the coral snake Micrurus lemniscatus from Vénézuela, British Guiana and Trinidad, and a key for the identification of associated species of coral snakes. Bol. Mus. Cienc. Nat. Caracas 1: 35-40.
      Natera-Mumaw, Marco; Luis Felipe Esqueda-González & Manuel Castelaín-Fernández. (2015). Atlas Serpientes de Venezuela. Santiago de Chile, Dimacofi Negocios Avanzados S.A., 456 Pp.

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