White ?

THAT'S WHAT I SAID.WHITE BANDS.......WHA?NOT AS PRETTY AS A YELLOW BANDED CORAL BUT A NICE SPECIMEN ANYWAYS.

ITS A RARE CORAL SNAKE FROM THE PACIFIC COAST OF MEXICO. MORE TOXIC THAN M. fulvius

are you sure thats a coral? cause the yellow is supposed to touch the red but wouldnt the white replace the yellow since they are closer ? not trying to say its not cause im definitely not an expert on venomous dont even own one just saying what i think

oh yeah by the way that is an awesome animal corla or not

I don't think that's a coral because it's red on black and the usual corals have red on yellow. So I think it's one of those snakes that immitate coral snakes. Beautiful snake coral or not although

It`s a coral reptiledude2 and snakegal123456. The red on yellow only is for US because México and Sudamerica have many forms of coral snakes very similars to the common corals or even other very diferents.

Micrurus lemniscatus lemniscatus

real coral snake, and very venemous

the rym doesnt work every were theres yello/black corals in texas

it looks like a milk snake. Where did you catch it?

This pic is a very good demonstration on the uselessness of nursery rhymes when referring to potentially deadly animals! Almost half the posters proclaimed with much confidence that this was NOT a coral snake. It most certainly is. And the rhyme doesn't always work for N.A. corals, there are abberant specimens that contradict the rhyme but are still deadly...bottom line, FIND ANOTHER WAY TO IDENTIFY, OR DON'T TOUCH!

Beautiful snake! Hot as hell I might add! If you could examine the head shape you would quickly see it is a coral...the head is very similar to that of our US native corals. While all the little sayings out there are rather cute, and to an extent true I would not ever base anything on them! In Canada this is a very valid rhyme as you will never encounter a coral at all(or shouldn't in the wild), but everywhere else where corals are found this saying could very well get you killed! Just because it doesn't look like a US coral it is has a very toxic venom. The protein strands and peptide configurations that are involved in this venom make it quite effective. Needless to say there may be some strong resistance if a US antivenom were to be used on this species!

Nice photo though! I would love to see some shots of it crawiling around!

Best of luck,
Steve Clark

red-black-white-black-white-black-black-red..is it micrurus frontalis?

From what I've read about corals, they appear to be gentle when handled. I guess it's true?

I'm sure that the people saying it's a coral are correct. I really dont know what it is. All I know is that I was always taught "if red touches yellow, you're a dead fellow, if red touches black, you're okay jack." Obviously that dosent apply to all coral snakes but it applies to all the corals us American Herp enthusiasts will encounter where we live. The rhyme of caution is a great way of warning little kids in America to be cautious of those beautiful dangerous snakes. It is definately not stupid or useless as some people claim. If someone were to go herping in another country where they might encounter a coral that dosent follow the rhyme I would hope that they would do their research about all the local snakes before they started looking for them.