Micrurus

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{{Short description|Genus of reptiles}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Micrurus fulviusHolbrookV3P10AA.jpg
| image_caption = ''[[Micrurus fulvius]]''
| taxon = Micrurus
| authority = [[Johann Georg Wagler|Wagler]], 1824
| type_species = ''[[Micrurus fulvius|Coluber fulvius]]''
| type_species_authority = [[Linnaeus]], 1766
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| range_map =
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'''''Micrurus''''' is a [[genus]] of [[Venomous snake|venomous]] [[coral snake]]s of the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Elapidae]].<ref name="RDB">{{EMBL genus|genus=Micrurus}}</ref>

==Geographic range==
[[Species]] in the genus ''Micrurus'' are [[endemic]] to the [[Americas]].<ref>[[:fr:Coleman Jett Goin|Goin CJ]], [[species:Olive B. Goin|Goin OB]], [[:de:George Robert Zug|Zug GR]] (1978). ''Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition''. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company. xi + 378 pp. {{ISBN|0-7167-0020-4}}. (Genus ''Micrurus'', p. 331).</ref>

==Species==
The following 82 species are recognized as being valid.<ref name="RDB"/>
*''[[Micrurus albicinctus]]'' [[Afrânio Pompílio Gastos do Amaral|Amaral]], 1925 – white-banded coral snake
*''[[Micrurus alleni]]'' [[Karl Patterson Schmidt|K. Schmidt]], 1936 – arrow-headed coral snake, Allen's coral snake
*''[[Micrurus altirostris]]'' ([[Edward Drinker Cope|Cope]], 1860) – Uruguayan coral snake
*''[[Micrurus ancoralis]]'' [[Giorgio Jan|Jan]], 1872 – regal coral snake, anchor coral snake
*''[[Micrurus annellatus]]'' ([[Wilhelm Peters|W. Peters]], 1871) – annellated coral snake
*''[[Micrurus averyi]]'' K. Schmidt, 1939 – Avery's coral snake, black-headed coral snake
*''[[Micrurus baliocoryphus]]'' (Cope, 1862) – Mesopotamian coral snake
*''[[Micrurus bocourti]]'' (Jan, 1872) – false triad coral snake, Ecuador coral snake
*''[[Micrurus bogerti]]'' [[Janis Roze|Roze]], 1967 – Bogert's coral snake
*''[[Micrurus boicora]]'' {{Small|[[species:Paulo S. Bernarde|Bernarde]], [[species:Luiz Carlos Batista Turci|Turci]], [[species:Arthur Diesel Abegg|Abegg]] & [[species:Francisco Luís Franco|Franco]], 2018}} – Boicora Coral Snake
*''[[Micrurus brasiliensis]]'' Roze, 1967 – Brazilian short-tailed coral snake
*''[[Micrurus browni]]'' K. Schmidt & [[Hobart Muir Smith|H.M. Smith]], 1943 – Brown's coral snake
*''[[Micrurus camilae]]'' [[species:Juan Manuel Renjifo|Renjifo]] & [[species:Mikael Lundberg|Lundberg]], 2003
*''[[Micrurus carvalhoi]]'' Roze, 1967 – Brazilian ribbon coral snake
*''[[Micrurus circinalis]]'' ([[A.M.C. Duméril]], [[Bibron]] & [[A.H.A. Duméril]], 1854) – Trinidad coral snake, Trinidad northern coral snake
*''[[Micrurus clarki]]'' K. Schmidt, 1936 – Clark's coral snake
*''[[Micrurus collaris]]'' ([[Hermann Schlegel|Schlegel]], 1837) – Guyana blackback coral snake
*''[[Micrurus corallinus]]'' ([[Blasius Merrem|Merrem]], 1820) – painted coral snake
*''[[Micrurus decoratus]]'' (Jan, 1858) – Brazilian coral snake
*''[[Micrurus diana]]'' Roze, 1983 – Diana's coral snake
*''[[Micrurus diastema]]'' (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854) – variable coral snake
*''[[Micrurus dissoleucus]]'' Cope, 1860 – pygmy coral snake
*''[[Micrurus distans]]'' [[Robert Kennicott|Kennicott]], 1860 – clear-banded coral snake, West Mexican coral snake
*''[[Micrurus diutius]]'' [[species:William Leslie Burger|Burger]], 1955 – Trinidad ribbon coral snake
*''[[Micrurus dumerilii]]'' Jan, 1858 – Capuchin coral snake
*''[[Micrurus elegans]]'' Jan, 1858 – elegant coral snake
*''[[Micrurus ephippifer]]'' (Cope, 1886) – Oaxacan coral snake
*''[[Micrurus filiformis]]'' ([[Albert Günther|Günther]], 1859) – thread coral snake, slender coral snake
*''[[Micrurus frontalis]]'' A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854 – southern coral snake, short-tailed coral snake
*''[[Micrurus frontifasciatus]]'' ([[Franz Werner|F. Werner]], 1927) – Bolivian triad coral snake
*''[[Micrurus fulvius]]'' ([[Linnaeus]], 1766) – eastern coral snake, common coral snake, American cobra
*''[[Micrurus gallicus]]''
*''[[Micrurus helleri]]'' K. Schmidt & [[Franklin J. W. Schmidt|F. Schmidt]], 1925 – western ribbon coral snake
*''[[Micrurus hemprichii]]'' (Jan, 1858) – Hemprichi's coral snake
*''[[Micrurus hippocrepis]]'' (W. Peters, 1862) – Mayan coral snake
*''[[Micrurus ibiboboca]]'' (Merrem, 1820) – Caatinga coral snake
*''[[Micrurus isozonus]]'' (Cope, 1860) – equal-banded coral snake, Venezuela coral snake, Sandner's coral snake
*''[[Micrurus langsdorffi]]'' ([[Johann Georg Wagler|Wagler]], 1824) – confused coral snake, Langsdorff's coral snake
*''[[Micrurus laticollaris]]'' W. Peters, 1870 – double collar coral snake
*''[[Micrurus latifasciatus]]'' K. Schmidt, 1933 – long-banded coral snake, broad-ringed coral snake
*''[[Micrurus lemniscatus]]'' ([[Linnaeus]], [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]]) – South American coral snake
*''[[Micrurus limbatus]]'' [[species:Douglas F. Fraser|Fraser]], 1964 – Tuxtlan coral snake
*''[[Micrurus margaritiferus]]'' Roze, 1967 – speckled coral snake
*''[[Micrurus medemi]]'' Roze, 1967 – Villavicencio coral snake
*''[[Micrurus meridensis]]'' Roze, 1989 – Merida coral snake
*''[[Micrurus mertensi]]'' K. Schmidt, 1936 – Mertens's coral snake, Peruvian desert coral snake
*''[[Micrurus mipartitus]]'' (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854) – red-tailed coral snake, many-banded coral snake
*''[[Micrurus mosquitensis]]'' K. Schmidt, 1933 – mosquito coral snake
*''[[Micrurus multifasciatus]]'' Jan, 1858 – many-banded coral snake
*''[[Micrurus multiscutatus]]'' [[:fr:Hialmar Rendahl|Rendahl]] & [[species:Greta Vestergren|Vestergren]], 1940 – Cauca coral snake
*''[[Micrurus narduccii]]'' (Jan, 1863) – Andean blackback coral snake
*''[[Micrurus nattereri]]'' K. Schmidt, 1952 – Natterer's coral snake, Venezuelan aquatic coral snake
*''[[Micrurus nebularis]]'' Roze, 1989 – Neblina coral snake, cloud forest coral snake
*''[[Micrurus nigrocinctus]]'' ([[Charles Frédéric Girard|Girard]], 1854) – Central American coral snake
*''[[Micrurus obscurus]]'' (Jan, 1872) – black-neck Amazonian coral snake, Bolivian coral snake
*''[[Micrurus oligoanellatus]]'' [[species:Santiago Ayerbe-González|Ayerbe]] & [[species:Francisco José López-López|López]], 2002 – Tambito's coral snake
*''[[Micrurus ornatissimus]]'' (Jan, 1858) – ornate coral snake
*''[[Micrurus pacaraimae]]'' [[species:Celso Morato de Carvalho|Morato de Carvalho]], 2002 – Pacaraima coral snake
*''[[Micrurus pachecogili]]'' [[Jonathan A. Campbell|Campbell]], 2000 – Pueblan coral snake
*''[[Micrurus paraensis]]'' [[Osvaldo Rodrigues da Cunha|da Cunha]] & [[species:Francisco Paiva do Nascimento|Nascimento]], 1973 – Para coral snake
*''[[Micrurus peruvianus]]'' K. Schmidt, 1936 – Peru coral snake
*''[[Micrurus petersi]]'' Roze, 1967 – mountain coral snake, Peters's coral snake
*''[[Micrurus potyguara]]'' [[species:Matheus G. Pires|Pires]], [[species:Nelson Jorge da Silva Jr.|da Silva Jr.]], [[species:Darlan Tavares Feitosa|Feitosa]], [[species:Ana Lúcia da Costa-Prudente|Costa-Prudente]], [[species:Gentil Alves Pereira Filho|Pereira Filho]] & [[species:Hussam Zaher|Zaher]], 2014 – Potyguara coral snake
*''[[Micrurus proximans]]'' H.M. Smith & [[species:Peter Stanley Chrapliwy|Chrapliwy]], 1958 – Nayarit coral snake
*''[[Micrurus psyches]]'' ([[François Marie Daudin|Daudin]], 1803) – northern coral snake, Carib coral snake
*''[[Micrurus putumayensis]]'' [[species:Abdem Ramón Lancini Villalaz|Lancini]], 1962 – Putumayo coral snake
*''[[Micrurus pyrrhocryptus]]'' (Cope, 1862) – Argentinian coral snake
*''[[Micrurus remotus]]'' Roze, 1987 – remote coral snake
*''[[Micrurus renjifoi]]'' ([[species:William W. Lamar|Lamar]], 2003) – Renjifo's coral snake
*''[[Micrurus ruatanus]]'' (Günther, 1895) – Roatan coral snake
*''[[Micrurus sangilensis]]'' [[species:Hermano Nicéforo Maria|Nicéforo Maria]], 1942 – San Gil coral snake, Santander coral snake
*''[[Micrurus scutiventris]]'' (Cope, 1869) – little black coral snake, pygmy black-backed coral snake
*''[[Micrurus serranus]]'' [[species:Michael B. Harvey|Harvey]], [[species:James Aparicio|Aparicio]] & [[species:Lucindo Gonzáles Álvarez|Gonzáles]], 2003
*''[[Micrurus silviae]]'' [[:fr:Marcos Di-Bernardo|Di-Bernardo]], [[species:Márcio Borges-Martins|Borges-Martins]] & da Silva Jr., 2007
*''[[Micrurus spixii]]'' Wagler, 1824 – Amazon coral snake
*''[[Micrurus spurrelli]]'' (Boulenger, 1914) – butterfly-head coral snake
*''[[Micrurus steindachneri]]'' (F. Werner, 1901) – piedmont coral snake, Steindachner's coral snake
*''[[Micrurus stewarti]]'' [[Thomas Barbour|Barbour]] & Amaral, 1928 – Panamanian coral snake
*''[[Micrurus stuarti]]'' Roze, 1967 – Stuart's coral snake
*''[[Micrurus surinamensis]]'' ([[Georges Cuvier|Cuvier]], 1817) – aquatic coral snake
*''[[Micrurus tener]]'' [[Spencer Fullerton Baird|Baird]] & Girard, 1853 – Texas coral snake
*''[[Micrurus tikuna]]'' Feitosa, da Silva Jr, Pires, Zaher & Costa-Prudente, 2015 – Tikuna coral snake
*''[[Micrurus tricolor]]'' (Hoge, 1956) – Pantanal coral snake
*''[[Micrurus tschudii]]'' Jan, 1858 – desert coral snake

''[[Nota bene]]'': A [[Binomial nomenclature|binomial authority]] in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Micrurus''.

==Reproduction==
All species of ''Micrurus'' are [[oviparous]] (egg-laying).<ref>[[Hobart Muir Smith|Smith HM]], [[species:Edmund Darrell Brodie Jr.|Brodie ED Jr]] (1982). ''Reptiles of North America: A Guide to Field Identification''. New York: Golden Press. 240 pp. {{ISBN|0-307-13666-3}}. (Genus ''Micrurus'', p. 196).</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
*[[Janis Roze|Roze JA]] (1996). ''Coral Snakes of the Americas: Biology, Identification, and Venoms''. Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing. 340 pp. {{ISBN|978-0894648472}}.

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