Erythrolamprus

Erythrolamprus
Almaden ground snake, Erythrolamprus almadensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Subfamily:	Dipsadinae
Genus:	Erythrolamprus Wagler, 1830[1]
Synonyms[2][3]
Coluber, Coniophanes, Coronella, Elaps, Glaphyrophis, Natrix, Opheomorphus, Umbrivaga

Erythrolamprus is a genus of colubrid snakes, commonly known as false coral snakes, native to Central America, the Caribbean, and the northern part of South America. They appear to be coral snake mimics.

Species

These species are currently recognized as being valid.^[1]

• Erythrolamprus aenigma Entiauspe-Neto, Abegg, Koch, Nuñez, Azevedo, Moraes, Tiutenko, Bialves & Loebmann, 2021 – savannah racer snake
• Erythrolamprus aesculapii (Linnaeus, 1766) – Aesculapian false coral snake
• Erythrolamprus albertguentheri Grazziotin, Zaher, R. Murphy, Scrocchi, Benavides, Zhang & Bonatto, 2012 – Günther's green liophis
• Erythrolamprus albiventris (Jan, 1863)
• Erythrolamprus almadensis (Wagler, 1824) – Almaden ground snake
• Erythrolamprus andinus (Dixon, 1983)
• Erythrolamprus atraventer (Dixon & Thomas, 1985) – Dixon's
  ground snake
• Erythrolamprus bizona Jan, 1863 – double-banded false coral snake
• Erythrolamprus breviceps (Cope, 1861) – short ground snake
• Erythrolamprus carajasensis (da Cunha, Nascimento & Ávila-Pires, 1985)
• Erythrolamprus ceii (Dixon, 1991)
• Erythrolamprus cobella (Linnaeus, 1758) – mangrove snake
• Erythrolamprus cursor (Lacépède
  , 1789) – Lacépède's ground snake or Martinique ground snake (possibly extinct)
• Erythrolamprus dorsocorallinus (Esqueda, Natera, La Marca & Ilija-Fistar, 2007)
• Erythrolamprus epinephalus (Cope, 1862) – fire-bellied snake
• Erythrolamprus festae (Peracca, 1897) – drab ground snake
• Erythrolamprus fraseri Boulenger, 1894
• Erythrolamprus frenatus (F. Werner, 1909) – swamp liophis
• Erythrolamprus guentheri Garman, 1883 – Günther's false coral snake
• Erythrolamprus ingeri (Roze, 1958)
• Jaeger's
  ground snake
• Erythrolamprus janaleeae (Dixon, 2000)
• Erythrolamprus juliae (Cope, 1879) – Julia's
  ground snake
• Erythrolamprus lamonae (Dunn, 1944)
• Amaral
  , 1936)
• Erythrolamprus maryellenae (Dixon, 1985) – Maryellen's ground snake
• Erythrolamprus melanotus (Shaw
  , 1802) – Shaw's dark ground snake
• Erythrolamprus mertensi (Roze, 1964) – Mertens's tropical forest snake
• Erythrolamprus miliaris
  (Linnaeus, 1758) – military ground snake
• Erythrolamprus mimus (Cope, 1868) – mimic false coral snake
• Erythrolamprus mossoroensis (Hoge & Lima-Verde, 1973)
• Erythrolamprus ocellatus W. Peters, 1868 – Tobago false coral snake, red snake
• Erythrolamprus oligolepis (Boulenger, 1905)
• Erythrolamprus ornatus (Garman, 1887) – Saint Lucia racer, ornate ground snake
• †
  Erythrolamprus perfuscus (Cope, 1862) – tan ground snake, Barbados
  racer (extinct)
• Erythrolamprus poecilogyrus (Wied-Neuwied, 1825)
• Erythrolamprus pseudocorallus Roze, 1959 – false coral snake
• Erythrolamprus pseudoreginae J. Murphy, Braswell, Charles, Auguste, Rivas, Borzée, Lehtinen & Jowers, 2019 – Tobago stream snake
• Erythrolamprus pyburni (Markezich & Dixon, 1979) – Pyburn's tropical forest snake
• Erythrolamprus pygmaeus (Cope, 1868) – Amazon tropical forest snake
• Erythrolamprus reginae
  (Linnaeus, 1758) – royal ground snake
• Erythrolamprus rochai Ascenso, Costa & Prudente, 2019
• Erythrolamprus sagittifer (Jan, 1863) – arrow ground snake
• Erythrolamprus semiaureus (Cope, 1862)
• Erythrolamprus subocularis (Boulenger, 1902)
• Erythrolamprus taeniogaster (Jan, 1866)
• Erythrolamprus taeniurus (Tschudi, 1845) – thin ground snake
• Donnelly & C. Myers
  , 1991) – velvety swamp snake
• Erythrolamprus trebbaui (Roze, 1958)
• Erythrolamprus triscalis (Linnaeus, 1758) – three-scaled ground snake
• Erythrolamprus typhlus (Linnaeus, 1758) – blind ground snake, velvet swamp snake
• Erythrolamprus viridis (Günther, 1862) – crown ground snake
• Erythrolamprus vitti (Dixon, 2000)
• Erythrolamprus williamsi (Roze, 1958) – Williams' ground snake
• Erythrolamprus zweifeli (Roze, 1959) – braided ground snake, Zweifel's ground snake

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Erythrolamprus.

Mimicry

The brightly colored, ringed patterns of some of the snakes of the genus Erythrolamprus resemble those of

sympatric coral snakes of the genus Micrurus, and it has been suggested that this is due to mimicry. Whether this is classical Batesian mimicry, classical Müllerian mimicry, a modified form of Müllerian mimicry, or no mimicry at all, remains to be proven.^[4]

Cited references

1. ^ ^{a b} "Erythrolamprus ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 13 August 2007.
2. ^ Boulenger GA (1896). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ) ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I–XXV. (Genus Erythrolamprus, pp. 199-200).
3. ^ Genus Erythrolamprus at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
4. ISBN 0-7167-0020-4
   . (Mimicry in Erythrolamprus, p. 159).

Further reading

Wikispecies has information related to Erythrolamprus.

• ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5
  . (Liophis atraventer, p. 73; L. guentheri, p. 111; L. jaegeri, p. 132; l. juliae, p. 137; L. melanotus, p. 241; Umbrivaga mertensi, p. 176; Geophis pyburni, p. 213; Liophis williamsi, p. 286; L. reginae zweifeli, p. 294).
• Wagler J[G] (1830). Natürliches System der AMPHIBIEN, mit vorangehender Classification der SAÜGTHIERE und VÖGEL. Ein Beitrag zur vergleichenden Zoologie. Munich, Stuttgart, and Tübingen: J.G. Cotta. vi + 354 pp. (Erythrolamprus, new genus, p. 187). (in German and Latin).