Sentence examples for coral snakes from inspiring English sources

The milk snake and the scarlet king snake are known as false coral snakes because their coloration and pattern mimics that of venomous coral snakes.

There are jumping vipers, coral snakes, fer-de-lance, stinging plants, and biting insects.

Coral snakes and venomous spiders signal their destructive potential by the display of similarly violent contrasts.

Besides the danger from rattlers and coral snakes, the desert is full of hardship.

Vine snakes (Oxybelis and Imantodes), false coral snakes (Erythrolamprus), coral snakes (Micrurus), slender ground snakes (Drymobius), and the burrowing spindle snakes (Atractus) are some of the most biologically diverse groups in this region.

For example, the venomous American coral snakes (Micrurus) have various ringed patterns of red, yellow, white, and black.

Snakes include poisonous rattlesnakes, water moccasins, copperheads, and coral snakes, as well as some nonpoisonous types, such as black snakes.

There are quite a few mildly poisonous rear-fanged snakes, brightly banded in red, black, and yellow (colours found in the coral snakes), that can make a predator suffer a sufficiently painful lesson that it will avoid contact with all similarly coloured snakes, including the fatally venomous coral snakes and the completely harmless milk snakes (Lampropeltis) and scarlet snake.

Presumably, the scarlet snake and scarlet king snake are mimics of the coral snake.

Herpetologists at the Charles Darwin Foundation identified it as a false coral snake.

"If one of us steps on a coral snake, we're finished," he said.