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coral snake: References & Edit History

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Coral Snake Toxicity. Oct 01, 2026
Add new Web site: CiteSeerX - Experimental studies of coral snake mimicry: do snakes mimic millipedes? Nov 12, 2024
Add new Web site: CiteSeerX - Experimental studies of coral snake mimicry: do snakes mimic millipedes? Nov 12, 2024
Add new Web site: American College of Emergency Physicians - Coral Snake Envenomations: Just Keep Breathing. Sep 06, 2024
Add new Web site: The Orianne Society - Coral Snakes and their Mimics. Feb 23, 2024
Add new Web site: Nature Communications - Coral snakes predict the evolution of mimicry across New World snakes. Jun 15, 2023
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Coral Snake Toxicity. Jan 09, 2023
Add new Web site: AZ Animals - Coral Snake. Jul 31, 2022
Article revised and updated. May 02, 2022
Add new Web site: LiveScience - Coral Snakes: Colors, Bites, Farts & Facts. Aug 30, 2021
Article revised and updated. Mar 23, 2021
Added photographs of the eastern coral snake (Micrurus fulvius), the South American coral snake (Micrurus lemniscatus), and a false coral snake of the genus Oxyrhopus. Mar 23, 2021
Add new Web site: Texas State Historical Association - The Handbook of Texas Online - Coral Snake. Jan 06, 2014
Add new Web site: Rodgers and Hammerstein - Biography of Ira Gershwin. Jan 06, 2014
Add new Web site: Museum Victoria - Coral Snake. Jan 06, 2014
Add new Web site: Biodiversity Explorer - Coral Snake. Jan 06, 2014
Add new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - Broadway : The American Musical - Biography of Ira Gershwin. Jan 06, 2014
Media added. Feb 19, 2009
Media added. Feb 09, 2009
Added new Web site: Snake Proof Your Yard - The Coral Snake. Sep 19, 2008
Added new Web site: The Belize Zoo - Coral Snake. Sep 19, 2008
Media added. Mar 16, 2007
Article revised. Apr 22, 2005
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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