Sinomicrurus iwasakii

Sinomicrurus iwasakii (Sinomicrurus iwasakii) is Iwasaki's Temperate Asian Coral Snake, a rare elapid identified through its contrasting banded pattern and detailed scale arrangement. Identification should combine documented pattern, scalation, body form and locality because related Japanese reptiles may be very similar. Claims here are limited to the opened species accounts (Wikipedia, general species account; Reptile Database). Field identification should therefore remain cautious wherever photographs or diagnostic measurements are unavailable.

It is known from Ishigaki and Iriomote in Japan's Yaeyama Islands; its restricted distribution is documented, while diet and reproduction are left unstated. Information absent from those species-level sources is omitted rather than inferred from relatives. Japanese occurrence follows the site's catalogue and the opened distribution accounts (Wikipedia, general species account; Reptile Database). This conservative treatment keeps unresolved parts of its natural history clearly visible to readers.