Snakes of
Mexico  
Coral Snakes, Sea Snakes, etc.
(Elapidae)  

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General remarks: The list includes only formally described species. Newly discovered, but still unnamed species are excluded. However, unnamed species or species unassigned to species level are included, if they are the only representatives of their genus in the region. Species counts exclude extinct and introduced species. Doubtful records, typically older voucher specimens of uncertain origin, have been excluded if considered questionable, as are records based on sources considered unreliable.
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Snakes (Serpentes)
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Species
References
 Family Elapidae [part 1: terrestrial species] (Cobras, Mambas, Coral Snakes, etc.)
Genus Micruroides (Western Coral Snake)
 
Micruroides euryxanthus

Western Coral Snake

Ahumada-Carrillo, Carbajal-Marquez, López-Cuellar & Weatherman 2018 Campbell & Lamar 2004 Cruz-Sáenz, Muñoz-Nolasco, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2017 Enderson, Devender & Bezy 2014 Enderson, Quijada-Mascarenas, Turner, Rosen & Bezy 2009 Flores-Villela 1993 Grismer 2002 Hardy & McDiarmid 1969 Heimes 2016 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2007a Lemos-Espinal, Smith, Woolrich-Piña & Cruz 2017 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Rorabaugh 2008 Roze 1996 Smith, Lemos-Espinal & Heimes 2005 Tanner 1985 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña, Ponce-Campos, Loc-Barragán, Ramírez-Silva, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2016 Zweifel & Norris 1955
Genus Micrurus (American Coral Snakes)
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Micrurus bernadi

Blotched Coral Snake

Camarillo-Rangel 1995 Campbell & Lamar 2004 García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez, Gutiérrez-Mayén & Trujano-Ortega 2009 Heimes 2016 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2015 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Ramírez-Bautista, Hernández-Salinas, Mendoza-Quijano, Cruz-Elizalde, Stephenson, Vite-Silva & Leyte-Manrique 2010 Roze 1996 Torre-Loranca, Leon & Luna 2006 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña, García-Padilla, DeSantis, Johnson, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2017
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Micrurus bogerti

Coastal Coral Snake

Campbell & Lamar 2004 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Flores-Villela 1993 Heimes 2016 Johnson, Mata-Silva, García-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Roze 1996 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
 
Micrurus browni

Sierra Madre Coral Snake

Alvarez del Toro & Smith 1956 Alvarez del Toro 1982 Camarillo-R. & Smith (in Strimple & Strimple) 1992 Campbell & Lamar 2004 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Cruz-Sáenz, Muñoz-Nolasco, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2017 Flores-Villela 1993 Grünwald, Pérez-Rivera, Ahumada-Carrillo, Franz-Chávez & Forest 2016 Heimes 2016 Johnson 1990 Johnson, Mata-Silva, García-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Luna-Reyes & Suárez-Velázquez 2008 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Palacios-Aguilar & Flores-Villela 2018 Percino-Daniel, Cruz-Ocaña, Pozo-Ventura & Velázquez-Velázquez 2013 Pérez-Ramos, Riva & Uribe-Peña 2000 Reyes-Velasco, Grünwald, Jones, Price & Fisher 2012 Rioja-Paradela, Carrillo-Reyes, Castañeda & López 2013 Roze 1996 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
 
Micrurus diastema

Variable Coral Snake

Alvarez del Toro 1982 Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Bahena-Basave 1995 [as browni] Campbell & Lamar 2004 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Ceron de la Luz, Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2016 Duellman 1965b Dundee, White & Rico-Gray 1986 Flores-Villela 1993 García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez, Aguilar-López, Solano-Zavaleta & Maceda-Cruz 2009 García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez, Gutiérrez-Mayén & Trujano-Ortega 2009 González-Sánchez, Johnson, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, DeSantis & Wilson 2017 Heimes 2016 Hernández-Ordóñez, Arroyo-Rodríguez, González-Hernández, Russildi, Luna-Reyes, Martínez-Ramos & Reynoso 2015 Johnson, Ely & Webb 1976 Johnson, Mata-Silva, García-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Köhler, Cedeño-Vázquez & Beutelspacher-García 2016 Lee 1996 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Luna-Reyes & Suárez-Velázquez 2008 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Pérez-Higareda & Smith 1991 Ramírez-Bautista, Hernández-Salinas, Mendoza-Quijano, Cruz-Elizalde, Stephenson, Vite-Silva & Leyte-Manrique 2010 Roze 1996 Sanchez-Herrera & Alvarez del Toro 1980 Shreve 1957 Smith & Williams 1963 Smith 1960 Torre-Loranca, Leon & Luna 2006 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña, García-Padilla, DeSantis, Johnson, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2017
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Micrurus distans

West Mexican Coral Snake

Ahumada-Carillo, Pérez Rivera, Reyes-Velasco, Grünwald & Jones 2014 Ahumada-Carrillo & Vázquez-Huizar 2012 Alvarado-Díaz, Suazo-Ortuño, Wilson & Medina-Aguilar 2013 Campbell & Lamar 2004 Canseco-Márquez, Smith, Ponce-Campos, Flores-Villela & Campbell 2007 Chávez-Avila, Casas-Andreu, García-Aguayo, Cifuentes-Lemus & Cupul-Magaña 2015 Cruz-Sáenz, Guerrero, Lazcano & Téllez-López 2009 Cruz-Sáenz, Muñoz-Nolasco, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2017 Duellman 1965a Enderson, Devender & Bezy 2014 Enderson, Quijada-Mascarenas, Turner, Rosen & Bezy 2009 Flores-Villela 1993 Hardy & McDiarmid 1969 Heimes 2016 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2007a Lemos-Espinal, Smith, Woolrich-Piña & Cruz 2017 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 McCranie & Wilson 2001 Palacios-Aguilar & Flores-Villela 2018 Pérez-Ramos, Riva & Uribe-Peña 2000 Quintero-Díaz, Vázquez-Díaz & Smith 2000 Ramirez-Bautista, Flores-Villela & Casas-Andreu 1982 Reyes-Velasco, Grünwald & Jones 2008 Rorabaugh 2008 Roze 1996 Smith & Chrapliwy 1958 [as proximans] Tanner 1985 Vazquez-Diaz & Quintero-Diaz 2005 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña, Ponce-Campos, Loc-Barragán, Ramírez-Silva, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2016 Zweifel & Norris 1955 Zweifel 1959b
 
Micrurus elegans

Elegant Coral Snake

Alvarez del Toro & Smith 1956 Alvarez del Toro 1982 Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Campbell & Lamar 2004 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Ceron de la Luz, Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2016 Flores-Villela 1993 García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez, Gutiérrez-Mayén & Trujano-Ortega 2009 Heimes 2016 Hernández-Ordóñez, Arroyo-Rodríguez, González-Hernández, Russildi, Luna-Reyes, Martínez-Ramos & Reynoso 2015 Johnson, Ely & Webb 1976 Johnson, Mata-Silva, García-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Luna-Reyes & Suárez-Velázquez 2008 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Pérez-Higareda & Smith 1991 Roze 1996 Torre-Loranca, Leon & Luna 2006 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña, García-Padilla, DeSantis, Johnson, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2017
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Micrurus ephippifer

Oaxacan Coral Snake

Campbell & Lamar 2004 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Flores-Villela 1993 Heimes 2016 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Martín-Regalado, Gómez-Ugalde & Cisneros-Palacios 2011 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Peterson, Canseco-Márquez, Contreras-Jiménez, Escalona-Segura, Flores-Villela, García-López, Hernandez-Baños, Jiménez-Ruiz, León-Paniagua, Amaro, Navarro-Sigüenza, Sánchez-Cordero & Willard 2004 Roze 1996 Simón-Salvador, García-Padilla & Mata-Silva 2016 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
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Micrurus laticollaris

Balsan Coral Snake

Alvarado-Díaz, Suazo-Ortuño, Wilson & Medina-Aguilar 2013 Camarillo-R. & Smith (in Strimple & Strimple) 1992 Campbell & Lamar 2004 Canseco Márquez & Gutiérrez Mayén 2006 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Castro-Franco & Bustos-Zagal 1994 Castro-Franco & Bustos-Zagal 2004 Chávez-Avila, Casas-Andreu, García-Aguayo, Cifuentes-Lemus & Cupul-Magaña 2015 Cruz-Sáenz, Guerrero, Lazcano & Téllez-López 2009 Cruz-Sáenz, Muñoz-Nolasco, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2017 Davis & Smith 1953b Duellman 1958b Duellman 1965a Flores-Villela 1993 Frost & Aird 1978 García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez, Gutiérrez-Mayén & Trujano-Ortega 2009 Heimes 2016 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Palacios-Aguilar & Flores-Villela 2018 Pérez-Ramos, Riva & Uribe-Peña 2000 Roze 1996 Smith & Flores-Villela 1994a Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña, García-Padilla, DeSantis, Johnson, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2017
 
Micrurus latifasciatus

Broad-ringed Coral Snake

Alvarez del Toro 1982 Campbell & Lamar 2004 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Flores-Villela 1993 Heimes 2016 Johnson, Mata-Silva, García-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Luna-Reyes & Suárez-Velázquez 2008 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Roze 1996 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
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Micrurus limbatus

Tuxtlan Coral Snake

Campbell & Lamar 2004 Flores-Villela 1993 Heimes 2016 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Pérez-Higareda & Smith 1991 Roze 1996 Torre-Loranca, Leon & Luna 2006 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
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Micrurus nebularis

Cloud Forest Coral Snake

Campbell & Lamar 2004 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Flores-Villela 1993 Heimes 2016 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Pavón-Vázquez, García-Vázquez, Meza-Lázaro & Nieto-Montes de Oca 2015 Roze 1996 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña, García-Padilla, DeSantis, Johnson, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2017
 
Micrurus nigrocinctus

Central American Coral Snake

Alvarez del Toro 1982 Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Campbell & Lamar 2004 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Flores-Villela 1993 Heimes 2016 Johnson, Mata-Silva, García-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Luna-Reyes & Suárez-Velázquez 2008 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Roze 1996 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
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Micrurus pachecogili

Zapotitlán Coral Snake

Campbell & Lamar 2004 Canseco Márquez & Gutiérrez Mayén 2006 García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez, Gutiérrez-Mayén & Trujano-Ortega 2009 Heimes 2016 Liner 2007 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña, García-Padilla, DeSantis, Johnson, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2017
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Micrurus proximans

Nayarit Coral Snake

Campbell & Lamar 2004 Chávez-Avila, Casas-Andreu, García-Aguayo, Cifuentes-Lemus & Cupul-Magaña 2015 Cruz-Sáenz, Muñoz-Nolasco, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2017 Flores-Villela 1993 Heimes 2016 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Reyes-Velasco, Grünwald, Jones, Price & Fisher 2012 Roze 1996 Smith & Chrapliwy 1958 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña, Ponce-Campos, Loc-Barragán, Ramírez-Silva, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2016
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Micrurus tamaulipensis

Tamaulipan Coral Snake

Heimes 2016 Lavin-Murcio & Dixon 2004 Lazcano, Farr, Lavín-Murcio, Contreras-Lozano, Kardon, Narváez-Torres & Cháves-Cisneros 2009 Liner 2007 Terán-Juárez, García-Padilla, Leyto-Delgado & García-Morales 2015 Terán-Juárez, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Johnson & Wilson 2016 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013
 
Micrurus tener

Texas Coral Snake

Alvarado-Díaz, Suazo-Ortuño, Wilson & Medina-Aguilar 2013 Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Camarillo-R. & Smith (in Strimple & Strimple) 1992 Campbell & Lamar 2004 Castañeda G., García-de la Peña, Lazcano & Salas-Westphal 2005 Castro-Franco & Bustos-Zagal 1994 Chávez-Avila, Casas-Andreu, García-Aguayo, Cifuentes-Lemus & Cupul-Magaña 2015 [citing IUCN 2010] Contreras Arquieta & Lazcano Villarreal 1995 Cruz-Elizalde, Ramírez-Bautista, Johnson & Moreno 2014 Davis & Smith 1953b Dixon & Lemos-Espinal 2010 Dixon, Ketchersid & Lieb 1972 [as fulvius] Farr, Lazcano & Lavín-Murcio 2009 Fernández, Sánchez & Flores-Villela 2006 Fernández-Bodillo, Manríquez-Morán, Castillo-Cerón & Goyenechea 2016 Flores-Villela 1993 [as fulvius] García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez, Gutiérrez-Mayén & Trujano-Ortega 2009 Golay, Smith, Broadley, Dixon, McCarthy, Rage, Schätti & Toriba 1993 Heimes 2016 Hensley & Smith 1962 Hensley 1962 Lazcano, Banda, Castañeda, Garcia-de la Peña & Rojas 2006 Lazcano, Contreras-Lozano, Gallardo-Valdez, García del Peña & Castañeda 2009 Lazcano, Farr, Lavín-Murcio, Contreras-Lozano, Kardon, Narváez-Torres & Cháves-Cisneros 2009 Lazcano, Galvan & Kardon 2000 Lazcano, Sánchez-Almazán, García-de la Peña, Castañeda & Contreras-Balderas 2007 Lemos-Espinal & Dixon 2013 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2007b Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2015 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2016 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Cruz 2016 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Woolrich-Piña 2018 Lemos-Espinal, Smith, Gadsden-Esparza, Valdez-Lares & Woolrich-Piña 2018 Leyte-Manrique, Berriozabal-Islas, Mata-Silva & Morales-Castorena 2018 Leyte-Manrique, Morales-Castorena & Escobedo-Morales 2016 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Martin 1958 [as fulvius] Nevárez-de los Reyes, Lazcano, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Johnson & Wilson 2016 Pérez-Higareda & Smith 1991 Ramírez-Bautista, Hernández-Salinas, García-Vázquez, Leyte-Manrique & Canseco-Márquez 2009 Ramírez-Bautista, Hernández-Salinas, Mendoza-Quijano, Cruz-Elizalde, Stephenson, Vite-Silva & Leyte-Manrique 2010 Reyes-Velasco, Hermosillo-Lopez, Grünwald & Avila-Lopez 2009 Roze 1996 Taylor 1949a Taylor 1950c Terán-Juárez, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Johnson & Wilson 2016 Torre-Loranca, Leon & Luna 2006 Vite-Silva, Ramírez-Bautista & Hernández-Salinas 2010 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña, García-Padilla, DeSantis, Johnson, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2017
 Family Elapidae [part 2: marine species] (Sea Snakes)
Genus Hydrophis (Typical Sea Snakes)
 
Hydrophis platurus

Yellow-bellied Sea Snake

Alvarado-Díaz, Suazo-Ortuño, Wilson & Medina-Aguilar 2013 Alvarez del Toro & Smith 1956 Alvarez del Toro 1982 Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Campbell & Lamar 2004 Casas-Andreu 1990 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Chávez-Avila, Casas-Andreu, García-Aguayo, Cifuentes-Lemus & Cupul-Magaña 2015 Cruz-Sáenz, Guerrero, Lazcano & Téllez-López 2009 Cruz-Sáenz, Muñoz-Nolasco, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2017 Enderson, Quijada-Mascarenas, Turner, Rosen & Bezy 2009 Ernst 1992 Flores-Villela 1993 Grismer 2002 Hardy & McDiarmid 1969 Heimes 2016 Johnson, Mata-Silva, García-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Lovich, Grismer & Daneman 2009 Luna-Reyes & Suárez-Velázquez 2008 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Palacios-Aguilar & Flores-Villela 2018 Pérez-Ramos, Riva & Uribe-Peña 2000 Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970 Rorabaugh 2008 Smith & Taylor 1945 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña, Ponce-Campos, Loc-Barragán, Ramírez-Silva, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2016 Zhao & Adler 1993 Zweifel 1960