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Micrurus nigrocinctus sp.
It was amazingly beautiful and the colors so very bright!! It was a juvenile Coralillo, it had the right colors in the right order!! Red, Yellow, Black, ( very poisonous) It had the yellow band across the head, 13 red bands, 6 tail rings and it was 9 to 10 inches long.
Found at a lower montane, wet (moist) forest, 900 meter above sea level, on a rainy day
It was at my front door after a rainy day, it looked like juvenile, I try to catch it (broom and long handle dust pan) but it went inside the House through a small hole. A day later it was at my Laundry room located to the right of my front door, I placed it in a plastic container, she wiggle a lot, took it to the land across my home so it can live happily ever after...
Spotted on May 25, 2013
Submitted on May 27, 2013
8 Comments
Hi Gilma. I don't imagine we will ever get another chance to get one of these in the Coral Snakes of the World Mission. I would be honored if you would add it. Haven't seen any new spottings from you lately. I trust you are just not free to roam, as opposed to sick. Be safe.
Just checked Reptile DataBase and nigrocinctus is the only subspecies found in Costa Rica, so if you want to update the name to Micrurus nigrocinctus nigrocinctus, I think that would be correct. Thanks from the snake too for letting it go :-)
Hi Gilma. Just searching my contacts for coral snakes and found this beauty. I just started a new mission: Coral Snakes of the World (https://www.projectnoah.org/missions/240...). If you're interested, I would love to have this posted to that mission. FYI, the "red on yellow kill a fellow, red on black, venom lack" only works north of the Rio Grande. In Mexico, Central and South america, they can be in any order. Half the corals here in our area are "red on black," very venomous. Thanks for posting this long ago :-)
gorgeous snake
What a nice looking snake and glad to hear you took good care of it:-)
Thank you so much, spadyspecies38.
Thank you, jones4, I was very careful. It really did not want nothing to do with me, all it wanted was to scape!! I do not know if it is true but it is said that the little ones have even more poison.
Thank you, Dana.