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MICRURUS 



MICRURUS BROWN I Schmidt and Smith 



1543 Micrurus brown i Schmidt and Smith, Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., 2'): 2'). Type-locality: 

 Ch i Ipanci ngo, Guerrero, Mexico. 



Distribution: Pacific Mexico from Guerrero south to western Guatemala. 



Content: Three subspecies, one of which ( tavlori Schmidt and Smith) is extralim i tal. 



Key to the subspecies Clave de subespecies 



1. Subcaudals 51-58 importunus 1. Subcaudales 51"58 importunus 



Subcaudals 46-51 browni Subcaudales 46-51 brown i 



Micrurus brown i brown i Schmidt and' Smith 



1567 Micrurus brown i brown i — Roze, Amer. Mus. Novitates, 2287: 11. 



Distribution: Sierra Madre del Sur of central Guerrero south to mountains of western 

 Guatemala. 



Micururs brown i importunus Roze 



1567 Micrurus brown I importunus Roze, Amer. Mus. Novitates, 2287: 11, fig. 4. Type-locality: 

 Dueflas, about 25 km west-southwest of Guatemala City, in Antigua Basin, Sacatepequez, 

 Guatemala. 



Distribution: Known only from type locality. 



MICRURUS CLARK I Schmidt 



1936 Micrurus dark I Schmidt. Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., 20: 211. Type-locality: Yavisa, 

 Darien, Panama. 



Distribution: Eastern Costa Rica to western Colombia. 



MICRURUS CORALLINUS (Merrem) 



1820 Elaps corall I nus Merrem, Tentamen Systematis Amphibiorum: 144, Type-locality: Brazil; given as 



Rio de Janeiro, Cabo Frio, Brazil, by Roze, Amer. Mus. Novitates, 2287, 19^7> 13- 

 1925 Micrurus corall i nus — Amaral . Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 67: 20. 



Distribution: Brazil south of Amazon Basin to Uruguay and northeastern Misiones, Argentina. 



MICRURUS DECORATUS (Jan) 



I858 Elaps decora tus Jan, Rev. Mag. Zool., (2) 10: ^2'j, pi. B. Type-locality: Mexico (in error). 

 1521 Elaps f i scher I Amaral, Anex. Mem. Inst. Butantan, 1: 59j pl- 2, figs. 1-5- Type-locality: 



Fazenda Bonito, Serra Bocaina, Sao Paulo, Brazil. 

 1523 Elaps ezequ i el I Lutz and Mello, Folha Medica, 4: 2. Type-locality: Caxambu, Serra da 



Mantiqueira, MInas Gerals, Brazil. 

 1526 Mi crurus decoratus — Amaral, Rev. Mus. Paulista, 14: J2. 



Distribution: Eastern Brazil, from Rio de Janeiro to Santa Catarlna. 



MICRURUS DIASTEMA (Oumeril, Bibron and Dumerll) 



I854 Elaps D iastema Dumerll, Bibron and Dumerll, Erp. Gen., ]: 1222. Type-locality: Mexico 



(restricted to Colima, Mexico, by Schmidt, Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., 20, 1533, 39; 

 Roze, Amer. Mus. Novitates, 2287, I967, 14 points out that this locality is far outside the 

 range of the typical subspecies). 



1933 Micrurus diastema — Schm idt, Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., 20: 36. 



Distribution: Caribbean slopes from Veracruz to Honduras, Including Yucatan Peninsula. 



Content: Seven subspecies, of which four (the nominate subspecies, af f i n is Jan, al i enus Werner, 

 and macdouqall I Roze) are extral I m i tal. 



