Erythrolamprus ceii facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Erythrolamprus ceii |
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The Erythrolamprus ceii is a type of snake. It is also known as Dixon's Coral Snake, named after James R. Dixon who first described it in 1991. This snake is part of a large group of snakes called the Colubridae family. You can find this snake living in parts of Bolivia and Argentina.
About the Erythrolamprus ceii Snake
This snake belongs to the genus Erythrolamprus. A genus is a group of very similar living things. There are more than 50 different kinds of snakes in the Erythrolamprus genus. These snakes are often found in Central and South America.
What is Classification?
Scientists group living things into categories. This helps us understand how they are related. This system is called classification. It's like sorting your toys into different boxes. For snakes, we have big groups like families, and then smaller groups like genera (plural of genus), and finally individual species.
The Erythrolamprus genus is part of a larger group called the subfamily Dipsadinae. Sometimes, this group is even called its own family, Dipsadidae. Scientists use clues like DNA to figure out how all these snakes are connected to each other.
