''Calliophis'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

elapid Elapidae (, commonly known as elapids , from , variant of "sea-fish") is a family (biology), family of snakes characterized by their permanently erect fangs at the front of the mouth. Most elapids are venomous, with the exception of the genus ...

snake Snakes are elongated limbless reptiles of the suborder Serpentes (). Cladistically squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales much like other members of the group. Many species of snakes have s ...

s, one of several known commonly as oriental

coral snake Coral snakes are a large group of elapid snakes that can be divided into two distinct groups, the Old World coral snakes and New World coral snakes. There are 27 species of Old World coral snakes, in three genera ('' Calliophis'', '' Hemibungar ...

s or Asian coral snakes.

Species

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in this genus are: * '' Calliophis beddomei'' ( M.A. Smith, 1943) – Beddome's coral snake (

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) * '' Calliophis bibroni'' ( Jan, 1858) – Bibron's coral snake (India) * '' Calliophis bilineatus'' ( Peters, 1881) – Two-stripped coral snake (

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) * '' Calliophis bivirgatus'' ( F. Boie, 1827) – Blue Malaysian coral snake (

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) * '' Calliophis castoe'' E.N. Smith, Ogale, Deepak & Giri, 2012 – Castoe’s coral snake (India) * ''

Calliophis gracilis ''Calliophis gracilis'', is a species of coral snake in the family Elapidae. References

Calliophis, gracilis Reptiles of Thailand Reptiles of Indonesia Reptiles of the Malay Peninsula Reptiles described in 1835 Taxa named by John Edwar ...

Gray Grey (more frequent in British English) or gray (more frequent in American English) is an intermediate color between black and white. It is a neutral or achromatic color, meaning that it has no chroma. It is the color of a cloud-covered s ...

, 1835 – Spotted coral snake (

) *'' Calliophis haematoetron'' E.N. Smith, Manamendra-Arachchi & Somweera, 2008 – Blood-bellied coral snake (Sri Lanka) * ''

Calliophis intestinalis ''Calliophis intestinalis'', commonly known as the banded Malayan coral snake, is a species of venomous Elapidae, elapid snake Endemism, endemic to Southeast Asia. Geographic range ''C. intestinalis'' is found in Borneo, Indonesia, Java, and Ma ...

'' ( Laurenti, 1768) – Banded Malaysian coral snake (

) * '' Calliophis maculiceps'' ( Günther, 1858) – Speckled coral snake (

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) * '' Calliophis melanurus'' ( Shaw, 1802) – Slender coral snake, Indian coral snake (India,

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, Sri Lanka) * '' Calliophis nigrescens'' (Günther, 1862) – Black coral snake (India) * '' Calliophis nigrotaeniatus'' (Peters, 1863) – banded Malaysian coral snake, striped coral snake (Indonesia, Malaysia ) * '' Calliophis philippinus'' (Günther, 1864) – Philippine coral snake (the Philippines) * '' Calliophis salitan'' Brown, Smart, Leviton, & Smith, 2018 – Dinagat Island banded coral snake (the Philippines) * '' Calliophis suluensis'' ( Steindachner, 1891) – Sulu Islands banded coral snake (the Philippines) ''

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'': A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Calliophis''.

Taxonomy

The former '' Calliophis calligaster'', the barred coral snake (

), is now in the genus '' Hemibungarus''. Both Kellogg's coral snake (formerly ''C. kelloggi'' ) (

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) and MacClelland's coral snake (formerly ''C. macclellandi'' ) are now in the

'' Sinomicrurus''.

Behaviour

Snakes of the genus ''Calliophis'' are semi

fossorial A fossorial animal () is one that is adapted to digging and which lives primarily (but not solely) underground. Examples of fossorial vertebrates are Mole (animal), moles, badgers, naked mole-rats, meerkats, armadillos, wombats, and mole salamand ...

. Goin CJ, Goin OB, Zug GR. 1978. ''Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition''. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company. xi + 378 pp. . (Genus ''Callophis'' ic p. 331).

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