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  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyColubridae
  5. ›genusPliocercus
Pliocercus elapoides
María Eugenia Mendiola González (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Wikimedia Commons. Found by name on iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons and in the open-access papers that described the species (Plazi); click a picture for its credit and licence.
IUCN LC · Least concern

Variegated False Coral Snake

Pliocercus elapoides Cope, 1860

Also calledCulebra imita coral común (spa) · Culebra-imita coral común (spa) · Falas Coral Jaspeada (spa) · Falsa coral (spa) · coralillo falso (spa) · culebra falsa coral (spa) · culebra imita coral (spa) · culebra imita coral bicolor (spa) · Мексиканский плиоцеркус (rus)

First described in: Cope, E. D. Catalogue of the Colubridae in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, with notes and descriptions of new species. Part II.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2455379.