THE PROPERNAME FOR THE VENEZUELANRED-TAILED CORAL SNAKE

Authors

  • Philippe Golay Fondation Culturelle Elapsoidea, CP 98, 1219 Aíre-Geneva, Switzerland.
  • David Chiszar Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.80309-0345
  • Hobart M. Smith Department of Environmental, Population and Organismic Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0334.
  • Frank van Breukelen Department of Environmental, Population and Organismic Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0334.

Keywords:

Reptilia, Serpentes, Elapidae, Micrurus mipartitus, nomenclature, systematics

Abstract

Micrurus miparitus rozei subsp. Nov. is proposed for the taxon currently known as M. m. semipartitus (Jan, 1858), an unjustified emendation of Elaps mipartitus Duméril et al. 1854.

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Issue

Vol. 19 No. 4 (1999)

Section

Notas Científicas