A review of various solutions proposed by investigators of the coral snake mimic problem precedes a suggested alternative explanation. Pseudomimicry is the term applied to the condition under which similar color patterns have arisen independently of natural selection in unrelated sympatric species occupying similar habitats. It is further suggested that the resemblances among Micrurus fulvius, Cemophora coccinea, and Lampropeltis triangulum are an example of pseudomimicry.
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Arnold B. Grobman (1978) studied this question.
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