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Micrurus Mosquitensis
''Micrurus'' is a genus of venomous coral snakes of the family Elapidae. Geographic range Species in the genus ''Micrurus'' are endemic to the Americas. Species The following 82 species are recognized as being valid. *'' Micrurus albicinctus'' Amaral, 1925 – white-banded coral snake *'' Micrurus alleni'' K. Schmidt, 1936 – arrow-headed coral snake, Allen's coral snake *'' Micrurus altirostris'' ( Cope, 1860) *'' Micrurus ancoralis'' Jan, 1872 – regal coral snake, anchor coral snake *''Micrurus annellatus'' ( W. Peters, 1871) – annellated coral snake *''Micrurus averyi'' K. Schmidt, 1939 – Avery's coral snake, black-headed coral snake *''Micrurus baliocoryphus'' (Cope, 1862) *''Micrurus bocourti'' (Jan, 1872) – false triad coral snake, Ecuador coral snake *''Micrurus bogerti'' Roze, 1967 – Bogert's coral snake *''Micrurus boicora'' *'' Micrurus brasiliensis'' Roze, 1967 – Brazilian short-tailed coral snake *'' Micrurus browni'' K. Schmidt & H.M. Smith, 1943 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micrurus Fulvius
''Micrurus fulvius'', Common name, commonly known as the eastern coral snake,John L. Behler, Behler John L.; Frederic Wayne King, King, F. Wayne (1979). ''The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Reptiles and Amphibians''. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 743 pp., 657 color plates. LCCCN 79-2217. . (''Micrurus fulvius'', p. 681 + Plates 617, 618). common coral snake, American cobra,Albert Hazen WWright, Albert Hazen; Anna Allen WWright, Anna Allen (1957). ''Handbook of Snakes of the United States and Canada''. Ithaca and London: Comstock Publishing Associates, a Division of Cornell University Press. (7th printing, 1985). 1,105 pp. (in 2 volumes). . (''Micrurus fulvius'', pp. 890–897, Map 63, Figures 256–257). and #Common names, more, is a species of highly venomous coral snake in the Family (biology), family Elapidae that is Endemism, endemic to the southeastern United States. The family also contains the cobras and sea snakes. Its appearance is sometimes confused with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Patterson Schmidt
Karl Patterson Schmidt (June 19, 1890 – September 26, 1957) was an American herpetologist. Family Schmidt was the son of George W. Schmidt and Margaret Patterson Schmidt. George W. Schmidt was a German professor, who, at the time of Karl Schmidt's birth, was teaching in Lake Forest, Illinois. His family left the city in 1907 and settled in Wisconsin. They worked on a farm near Stanley, Wisconsin, where his mother and his younger brother died in a fire on August 7, 1935. The brother, Franklin J. W. Schmidt, had been prominent in the then-new field of wildlife management. Karl Schmidt married Margaret Wightman in 1919, and they had two sons, John and Robert. Education In 1913, Schmidt entered Cornell University to study biology and geology. In 1915, he discovered his preference for herpetology during a four-month training course at the Perdee Oil Company in Louisiana. In 1916, he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts and made his first geological expedition to Santo Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulo S
Paulo is a Portuguese masculine given name equivalent to the English name Paul. Notable people with the name include: * Paulo Jr., Brazilian bassist * Paulo Jr. (footballer), Brazilian footballer * Paulo Alho (born 1980), Portuguese race car driver * Paulo Almeida, Brazilian footballer * Paulo André Cren Benini (born 1983), Brazilian football defender * Paulo Angeles (born 1997), Filipino actor, singer and dancer * Paulo Avelino (born 1988), Filipino actor and film actor * Paulo de Carvalho (born 1947), Portuguese singer-songwriter and actor * Paulo Coelho (born 1947), Brazilian lyricist and novelist * Paulo Dybala (born 1993), Argentine professional footballer also called "La Joya" * Paulo Fernando Craveiro, Brazilian author * Paulo Freire (1921–1997), Brazilian educator and philosopher * Paulo R. Holvorcem, Brazilian amateur astronomer, a prolific discoverer of asteroids * Paulo Jorge (other), several people * Paulo Kanoa (1802–1885), Governor of Kaua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micrurus Boicora
''Micrurus boicora'' is a species of venomous snake in the family Elapidae. The species is endemic to Brazil. Geographic range ''M. boicora'' is known from southern Rondônia and northern Mato Grosso, Brazil. (''Micrurus boicora'', new species). (in English, with an abstract in Portuguese). Taxonomy ''M. boicora'' is a member of the '' Micrurus hemprichii'' species complex. Description ''M. boicora'' can be distinguished from its congeners by its dark dorsal Dorsal (from Latin ''dorsum'' ‘back’) may refer to: * Dorsal (anatomy), an anatomical term of location referring to the back or upper side of an organism or parts of an organism * Dorsal, positioned on top of an aircraft's fuselage The fus ... coloration, thin white rings, a reddish ring around the neck, and bright orange-red on the tail. Its ventral coloration is dark with white splotches and a reddish gular area. References External links * boicora Snakes of Brazil Endemic reptiles of Brazil Reptiles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janis Roze
Jānis Arnolds Roze, born in Latvia in 1926, is a herpetologist and Professor of Biology Emeritus of City College and Graduate School of the City University of New York. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pages. . (Roze, page 228). He was professionally associated with the American Museum of Natural History and the United Nations. A founder of the International Center for Integrative Studies, he published several books and narrated several videos on Creative Evolution. He co-edited ''What Does it Mean to Be Human''. Biography A short résumé from the "Be Human" film site of The Ecological Institute of Búzios, Atlantic Rain Forest, Brazil: *Fulbright Senior Scholar. *Co-Director of UASD International Exchange Program of University of New York. *Advisor at United Nations Center of Science and Technology. *Member of the expert group of UN for the establishment of a ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micrurus Bogerti
Bogert's coral snake (''Micrurus bogerti)'' is a species of venomous snake in the family Elapidae. The species is endemic to southern Mexico. Etymology The specific name, ''bogerti'', is in honor of American herpetologist Charles Mitchill Bogert. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Micrurus bogerti'', p. 30). Geographic range ''M. bogerti'' is native to the Pacific coast of Oaxaca in Mexico, ranging from Puerto Angel to San Pedro Tapanatepec. Habitat Known from a few specimens from four localities, ''M. bogerti'' is found in tropical deciduous forest, dry coastal forest, and scrub forest. Description ''M. bogerti'' has a black snout, followed by a yellow parietal band, followed by a black nuchal band. The body is red with 16–19 black rings. The black rings, which are narrower than the red spaces between them, are edged with yellow or white rings whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micrurus Bocourti
''Micrurus bocourti'', the false triad coral snake or Ecuador coral snake, is a species of snake of the family Elapidae. The snake is found in Ecuador and Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac .... References {{Taxonbar, from=Q3312505 bocourti Reptiles described in 1872 Taxa named by Giorgio Jan Reptiles of Peru Reptiles of Ecuador ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micrurus Baliocoryphus
''Micrurus baliocoryphus'' is a species of coral snake in the family Elapidae. Like the other members of its family, it is venomous. It is found in South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o .... References baliocoryphus Reptiles of Argentina Snakes of Brazil Reptiles of Paraguay Reptiles described in 1862 Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope {{Elapidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micrurus Averyi
''Micrurus averyi'', also known commonly as Avery's coral snake and the black-headed coral snake, is a species of coral snake, a venomous snake in the genus '' Micrurus'' of the family Elapidae. The species is indigenous to northern South America. Etymology The specific name, ''averyi'', is in honor of American financier Sewell Avery, who funded the expedition during which the holotype was collected. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Micrurus averyi'', p. 13). Geographic range ''M. averyi'' is found in southern Guyana (in the headwaters of Courantyne River), southern Suriname, and Brazil (Pará, Amazonas, Mato Grosso). Habitat The preferred natural habitat of ''M. averyi'' is forest, at altitudes of . Description The head of ''M. averyi'' is almost completely black, and there is no nuchal ring. The relatively few black rings on the body are not grouped in triads ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Peters
Wilhelm Karl Hartwich (or Hartwig) Peters (22 April 1815 – 20 April 1883) was a German natural history, naturalist and explorer. He was assistant to the anatomist Johannes Peter Müller and later became curator of the Natural History Museum, Berlin, Berlin Zoological Museum. Encouraged by Müller and the explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Peters travelled to Mozambique via Angola in September 1842, exploring the coastal region and the Zambesi River. He returned to Berlin with an enormous collection of natural history specimens, which he then described in ''Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique... in den Jahren 1842 bis 1848 ausgeführt'' (1852–1882). The work was comprehensive in its coverage, dealing with mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, river fish, insects and botany. He replaced Martin Lichtenstein as curator of the museum in 1858, and in the same year he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In a few years, he greatly increased ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micrurus Annellatus
''Micrurus annellatus'', commonly known as annellated coral snake, is a species of venomous elapid snake native to southeastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, Bolivia, and western Brazil. There are three recognized subspecies In Taxonomy (biology), biological classification, subspecies (: subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (Morphology (biology), morpholog ..., including the nominate subspecies described here. Subspecies There are 3 recognized subspecies: *''Micrurus annellatus annellatus'' ( Peters, 1871) *''Micrurus annellatus balzanii'' ( Boulenger, 1898) *''Micrurus annellatus bolivianus'' ( Roze, 1967) Common names Annellated coral snake. In Spanish: ''coral anilada'', ''naca-naca''. Portuguese: ''cobra-coral anelada''. Description The Annellated coral snake can grow to , but most are closer to . Its color pattern may vary between subspecies: overall dark bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Jan
Giorgio Jan (21 December 1791 in Vienna – 8 May 1866, Milan) was an Italian taxonomist, zoologist, botanist, herpetologist, and writer. He is also known as Georg Jan or Georges Jan. He was the first director of the natural history museum at Milan. Biography After having been an assistant at the University of Vienna until 1816, Jan obtained the post of professor of botany at the university of Parma as well as becoming Director of the botanical garden. Already in his time at Wien he started offering herbaria for purchase to princely courts - an example being the ''Oesterreichs Flora (Flora Austriae)'', sent between 1815 and 1818 to Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. In Parma he continued to offer exsiccata-like series with plant specimens for sale, an example being the ''Herbarium portatile'' with the species list published in 1820. At that time, the Duchy of Parma was no longer under Austrian jurisdiction following the Congress of Vienna after the defeat of Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
