Northern Coral Snake Micrurus Fulvius Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Family: Elapidae Genus: Micrurus Species: Fulvius

Description

Coral Snakes are beautiful, highly venomous, medium-sized (20 to 35 inches) snakes. Their patterning and coloration consists of bands of dark-red, yellow, and black. Non venomous mexican milk snakes, scarlet snakes, and scarlet king snakes mimic the coral snakes color. Coral snakes have red bands next to yellow bands while the other three have red bands that only touch black.

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Average Statistics

Length	Rarely of 2 feet
Geographic Range	South eastern US and mexico

Diet

Lizards and small snakes.

Offspring

5-7 eggs are laid which hatch 60 days later.

Relationship with Humans

Coral snakes are the only snake in Florida whose venom is neurotoxic, or paralyzing. All other venomous snakes in Florida are hemotoxic, attacking tissue. Coral snake fangs are found in the back of the mouth so they cannot generally inject venom with a fast bite. Because of their color and small size, coral snakes more often bite women and children who mistake them for a beaded necklace.

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