Micruroides

Micruroides euryxanthus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Elapidae
Genus: Micruroides
K.P. Schmidt, 1928[2]
Species:
M. euryxanthus
Binomial name
Micruroides euryxanthus
(Kennicott, 1860)
Synonyms
  • Elaps euryxanthus
    Kennicott, 1860
  • Micrurus euryxanthus
    — Stejneger & Barbour, 1917[3]
  • Micruroides euryxanthus
    — K.P. Schmidt, 1928[2]
Sonoran coral snake in Arizona.

Micruroides is a genus of venomous coral snake in the family Elapidae. The genus is monotypic, containing only the species Micruroides euryxanthus.

Micruroides euryxanthus, commonly known as the Sonoran coral snake, western coral snake or the Arizona coral snake, is endemic to northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States.

  1. ^ Frost DR, Hammerson GA, Gadsden H (2007). "Micruroides euryxanthus ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 10 January 2013.
  2. ^ a b Schmidt KP (1928). "Notes on American Coral Snakes". Bull. Antivenin Inst. America 2 (3): 63–64. (Micruroides, new genus).
  3. ^ Stejneger L, Barbour T (1917). A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 125 pp. (Micrurus euryxanthus, p. 106).