Editing Micrurus

{{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 = 
}}

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