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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyColubridae
  5. ›genusErythrolamprus
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Aesculapian False Coral Snake

Erythrolamprus aesculapii (Linnaeus, 1758)

Also calledBacorá (por) · Boicorá (por) · Cobra-Coral (por) · Cobra-Corá (por) · Coral (por) · Coral-Falsa (por) · Coral-da-Falsa (por) · Couleuvre faux-corail (La) (fra) · Couresse faux-corail (fra) · Couresse faux-corail, Faux corail (fra) · Falsa coral (spa) · Falsa-Coral (por) · Falsa-Coral-Anelada (por) · Falsche Korallenschlange (deu)

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

distribution

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad, and Venezuela (Plt. 367 A). In Brazil, recorded in most ecoregions, except Pantanal and Caatinga (Plt. 367 A), from low to high elevations (Plt. 367 B). Observed in the field in gallery forest, semideciduous forest, forest and disturbed areas (Martins and Oliveira, 1998; Bernarde and Abe, 2006; FranÇa and Araújo, 2006; Martins et al., 2008 b; Costa et al., 2010 a).

Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2456090.