- coral snake, Old World coral snake - any of various venomous elapid snakes of Asia and Africa and Australia
--1 is a kind of elapid, elapid snake
--1 has particulars:Asian coral snake; African coral snake, Aspidelaps lubricus; Australian coral snake, Rhynchoelaps australis - coral snake, harlequin-snake, New World coral snake - any of several venomous New World snakes brilliantly banded in red and black and either yellow or white; widely distributed in South America and Central America
--2 is a kind of elapid, elapid snake
--2 has particulars:eastern coral snake, Micrurus fulvius; western coral snake, Micruroides euryxanthus