Sinomicrurus kelloggi

Taxonavigation[edit]

Taxonavigation: Elapoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Elapoidea

Holotype: AMNH 33744, ♀, collected by Clifford H. Pope between June-July 1925.

Type locality: “Ch'ungan Hsien, northwest Fukien Province, China”.

Hemibungarus kelloggi Pope, 1928: 6 [original combination]
Callophis kelloggi — Smith, 1943: 426 [subsequent combination]
Micrurus kelloggi — Welch, 1994: 85 [subsequent combination]
Sinomicrurus kelloggi — Slowinski, Boundy & Lawson, 2001: 239 [subsequent combination]

Pope, C.H. 1928. Seven new reptiles from Fukien Province, China. American Museum Novitates 320: 1–6. hdl: 2246/3724
Slowinski, J.B., Boundy, J. & Lawson, R. 2001. The Phylogenetic Relationships of Asian Coral Snakes (Elapidae: Calliophis and Maticora) Based on Morphological and Molecular Characters. Herpetologica 57(2): 233–245. JSTOR Reference page.

Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Sinomicrurus kelloggi. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 19 January 2019.
Rao, D.-q. & Li, P. 2012. IUCN: Sinomicrurus kelloggi (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T191960A2021384. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T191960A2021384.en

English: Kellogg's Coral Snake