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Coral Snake Skull

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The coral snakes are a large group of elapid snakes that can be subdivided into two distinct groups, Old World Coral Snakes and New World Coral Snakes.

U.S. Coral Snakes

Eastern Coral Snake - Micrurus fulvius

Eastern Coral Snake

Body encircled by wide red and black rings separated by narrow yellow rings. Head uniformly black from tip of blunt snout to just behind eyes. Red rings usually spotted with black; black dotting fuses into pair of spots on back into a single spot on belly.

Texas Coral Snake - Micrurus tener

Texas Coral Snake

Body encircled by wide red and black rings separated by narrow yellow rings. Head uniformly black from tip of blunt snout to just behind eyes. Random black spots in red rings.

Sonoran Coral Snake - Micruroides euryxanthus

Western Coral Snake

Blunt-snouted and glossy, with alternating wide red, wide black, and narrow yellow or white rings encircling the body. Head uniformly black to angle of jaw.