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The painted coral snake is a medium-sized tri-colored snake which can grow to 98 cm (39 in), but most are closer to 65–85 cm (26–33 in). [2] It is a snake with nocturnal habits found on the coastlines, through leaves, on top of logs and stones, its diet is based on lizards, other snakes (including coluibrids), amphisbenids and gymnophils.
While any snake exhibiting the coral snake's color and/or banding pattern in the southeastern United States will almost certainly, in fact, be a coral snake, there are coral snakes in other parts of the world that are colored differently. [4] Coral snakes in the United States are most notable for their red, yellow/white, and black-colored banding.
Micrurus obscurus, the black-neck Amazonian coral snake or Bolivian coral snake, is a species of snake of the family Elapidae. [ 2 ] The snake is found in Colombia , Brazil , Bolivia , Ecuador , and Peru .
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Micrurus circinalis, the Trinidad coral snake or Trinidad northern coral snake, is a species of snake of the family Elapidae. [2]
Micrurus mipartitus (red-tailed coral snake [2] or many-banded coral snake) [3] is a species of coral snake in the family Elapidae. [2] The species is native to Central America and northern South America .
Micrurus fulvius, commonly known as the eastern coral snake, [3] common coral snake, American cobra, [4] and more, is a species of highly venomous coral snake in the family Elapidae. The family also contains the cobras and sea snakes . [ 5 ]