Here we modeled the geographic distribution of 39 species of New World coral snakes (genus Micrurus, Micruroides and Leptomicrurus) using GARP and MAXENT and compared their results.
Contribution to the herpetology of Sonora, Mexico: descriptions of new subspecies of snakes (Micruroides euryxanthus and Lampropeltis getulus) and miscellaneous collecting notes.
The most important representative of the coral snakes (family Elapidae) in the North American hot deserts is the Arizona coral snake (Micruroides euryxanthus).
Many of the venomous New World coral snakes (Micrurus and Micruroides) have a distinctive pattern of red, black, and yellow rings (Campbell and Lamar 1989; Savage and Slowinski 1992), which typically appear in the sequence red-yellow-black-yellow (the "tricolor monad" of Savage and Slowinski 1992) repeated multiple times on each snake.