Micruroides euryxanthus

Familia: Elapidae
Subfamilia: Elapinae
Genus: Micruroides
Species:
Subspecies (3): M. e. australis – M. e. euryxanthus – M. e. neglectus

• Micruroides euryxanthus (Kennicott, 1860)

Holotype: USNM 1122, adult ♂.

Type locality: not given, but the National Museum of Natural History records show its provenience as “Sonora, Mexico”, fide Roze (1974: 163).

• Elaps euryxanthus Kennicott, 1860: 337 [original combination]
• Micrurus euryxanthus — Stejneger & Barbour, 1917: 106 [subsequent combination]
• Micruroides euryxanthus — Schmidt, 1928: 63 [subsequent combination]

• Kennicott, R. 1860. Descriptions of new species of North American serpents in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 12: 328–338. BHL Reference page. 
• Stejneger, L. & Barbour, T. 1917. A checklist of North American amphibians and reptiles. Harvard University Press: Cambridge. 125 pp. BHL
• Schmidt, K.P. 1928. Notes on American coral snakes. Bulletin of the Antivenin Institute of America 2(3): 63–64.

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Micruroides euryxanthus. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 5 May 2018.
• Frost, D.R., Hammerson, G.A. & Gadsden, H. 2007. IUCN: Micruroides euryxanthus  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2007: e.T64017A12736062. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T64017A12736062.en

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