Pliocercus

The following species and subspecies are recognized as being valid.^[1]

• Pliocercus elapoides Cope, 1860 – variegated false coral snake
  • Pliocercus elapoides aequalis Salvin, 1861
  • Pliocercus elapoides diastema (Bocourt, 1886)
  • Pliocercus elapoides elapoides Cope, 1860
  • Pliocercus elapoides occidentalis H.M. Smith & Landy, 1965
• Pliocercus euryzonus Cope, 1862 – Cope's false coral snake
  • Pliocercus euryzonus burghardti H.M. Smith & Chiszar, 1996
  • Pliocercus euryzonus euryzonus Cope, 1862

Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Pliocercus.

• Cope ED (1860). "Catalogue of the Colubridæ in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, with notes and descriptions of new species. Part 2". Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia [12]: 241-266. (Pliocercus, new genus, p. 253; P. elapoides, new species, pp. 253–254).