coral snake
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
coral snake name for poisonous New World snakes of the same family as the Old World cobras . About 30 species inhabit Mexico, Central America, and N South America; two are found in the United States. The Eastern coral snake ( Micrurus fulvius ), or harlequin snake, is found in the SE United States and N Mexico. It is a burrowing snake with a small, blunt head and a cylindrical body, averaging 2 1/2 ft (75 cm) in length. The body is ringed with bands of black, red, and yellow; the tail has yellow and black rings only. The Sonoran, or Western, coral snake ( Micruroides euryxanthus ) is a rather rare species found in the SW United States and NW Mexico. It is about 18 in. (45 cm) long and has much broader bands of yellow than those of the Eastern species. Coral snakes can be distinguished from a number of similarly colored harmless snakes by the fact that they are the only ones with red bands touching yellow ones. The venom of coral snakes, like that of cobras, acts on the nervous system and causes paralysis; the mortality rate among humans who are bitten is high. However, coral snakes are infrequently encountered because of their burrowing habits, and they seldom bite unless handled. They feed on other snakes and on lizards. Coral snakes are classified in the phylum Chordata , subphylum Vertebrata, class Reptilia, order Squamata, family Elapidae.
Author not available, CORAL SNAKE.,
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright 2008 Columbia University Press
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research
|
Mass exoduses: The response of the United States
The International Migration Review; 4/1/1996; Churgin, Michael J; 6555 words
; The focus of this article is on mass immigration to the United States and the country's response to various groups of immigrants. After presenting historical background dating back to the pre-Civil War era, attention is given to the Cuban and Haitian mass movements of recent years and to the
Read more
|
|
Conflicts Between United States Immigration Law and the General Agreement on Trade in Services: Most-Favored-Nation Obligation
Texas International Law Journal; 10/1/2006; Worster, William Thomas; 20988 words
; I. INTRODUCTION United States laws establishing qualifications for temporary, nonimmigrant classifications are potentially in violation of the United States' obligations under the World Trade Organization's (WTO)1 General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).2 These violations, if ever the subject
Read more
|
|
Bad lawyering or ulterior motive? Why the United States lost the film case before the WTO dispute settlement panel
Law and Policy in International Business; 1/1/1999; Goldman, Julie; 4734 words
; I. INTRODUCTION In order to convince countries such as the United States to forgo unilateral response measures to violations of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT),1 the World Trade Organization (WTO) Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU) arose out of the Uruguay Round of GATT
Read more
|
|
Security Council does not adopt text condemning United States armed attack against Libya.
UN Chronicle; 8/1/1986; 5009 words
; Security Council does not adopt text condemning United States armed attack against Libya Three permanent members of the Security Council--the United States, the United Kingdom and France--on 21 April cast vetoes against a draft resolution by which the Council would have condemned the armed attack'
Read more
|
|
Naked imperialism.(REVIEW OF THE MONTH; United States foreign relations)
Monthly Review; 9/1/2005; Foster, John Bellamy; 4284 words
; The global actions of the United States since September 11, 2001, are often seen as constituting a new militarism and a new imperialism. Yet, neither militarism nor imperialism is new to the United States, which has been an expansionist power--continental, hemispheric, and global--since its
Read more
|
|
Iraq and its implications: Sir Marrack Goulding considers the situation in Iraq in the context of the emergence of the United States as the only superpower.
New Zealand International Review; 9/1/2004; Goulding, Marrack; 3853 words
; The United States' venture in Iraq has so far achieved only one of the variable objectives which, at various times, President Bush has stated to be the purpose of his invasion of that country. The outcome of that action was and is still very uncertain and all implications are hypothetical. What
Read more
|
|
THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT: AN OVERVIEW.
College Student Journal; 9/1/1999; KHASNAVIS, P.K.; 1667 words
; The government of the United States consists of three equal branches of government: the legislative, executive, and the judicial. The legislative branch consists of the Congress, the executive branch of the President, and the judicial branch of the Supreme Court of the United States. This paper
Read more
|
|
Politics across borders: Mexico's policies toward Mexicans in the United States.
Journal of the Southwest; 12/22/2003; Garcia-Acevedo, Maria Rosa; 8882 words
; President Vicente Fox's 2000 characterization of the Mexican community in the United States as heroes delighted most of his paisanos on both sides of the Rio Bravo/Rio Grande. The Mexican diaspora in the United States had finally come of age. The heroes of the Mexican diaspora had braved the
Read more
|
|
Cognitive Images and Support for International Economic Agreements with the United States Among Mexican Citizens
Latin American Politics and Society; 7/1/2007; Davis, Charles L; Bartilow, Horace A; 9535 words
; ABSTRACT A 1995 survey shows that Mexican citizens depend on their cognitive and affective orientations toward the United States in forming opinions about economic agreements between the two countries. The degree to which respondents utilized general feelings toward the United States rather than
Read more
|
|
Why the United States isn't winning the trade war with Japan.
Industrial Management; 3/1/1990; Aviel, David; 6065 words
; ... unlikely that they would increase purchases from the United States because of shoddy quality. On August 29, 1986, an afternoon ABC news broadcast opened with: The world does not want American products. It may be noteworthy to mention that the Japanese reputation ...
Read more
|
Related entries from encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses
|
coral snake
World Encyclopedia
coral snake Poisonous burrowing snake of the Americas and se Asia. It is shy and docile, but has fatal venom. Most species are brightly coloured, ringed with red, yellow, and black. It feeds on lizards, frogs, and other snakes. Family Elapidae.
Read more
|
|
coral snakes
A Dictionary of Zoology
coral snakes Venomous snakes ( Elapidae ) which are characterized by bright coloration ... warning coloration of the American genus Micrurus is mimicked by a harmless pipe snake Anilius scytale ( Aniliidae ), and some Lampropeltis species, including the milk snake ( L. triangulum sinaloae ), Californian ...
Read more
|
|
harlequin snake
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
see coral snake .
Read more
|
|
|
king snake
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
... egg-laying, constricting snakes of North America which show much variation in color and markings. The common king snake, or chain snake ( Lampropeltis getulus ), of the E United States is usually about 3 to 5 ft (90-150 cm) long and black or brown with ... It is immune to the venom of the rattlesnake and the ...
Read more
|
|
|
sea snake
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
... venomous marine snakes of the family Hydrophidae, found in tropical waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans. The sea snake's body is flattened laterally and its oarlike tail is used as a scull. A specialized lung and nostrils with valves enable ... ground. These snakes bear live young at sea. Most inhabit the shallow ...
Read more
|