Ninia
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Ninia, commonly referred to as coffee snakes, is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae. The genus consists of 12 species that are native to south-eastern Mexico, Central America, and the northern part of South America. Some species are also found on Caribbean islands.
Species
There are 12 species that are recognized as being valid.
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ninia atrata (Hallowell, 1845) | Hallowell's coffee snake | southern Central America, Ecuador, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago | |
| Ninia celata McCranie & Wilson, 1995 | Costa Rica; Panama | ||
| Ninia diademata Baird & Girard, 1853 | ringneck coffee snake | Belize; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico | |
| Ninia espinali McCranie & Wilson, 1995 | Espinal's coffee snake | El Salvador; Honduras | |
| Ninia franciscoi Angarita-Sierra, 2014 | Simla coffee snake | Trinidad | |
| Ninia guytudori Angarita-Sierra & Arteaga, 2023 | Ecuador | ||
| Ninia hudsoni H. Parker, 1940 | Guiana coffee snake, Hudson's coffee snake | Guiana, Ecuador (Amazonas), Peru (Pasco, Tambopata, Madre de Dios), Brazil (Rondônia), SW Colombia | |
| Ninia maculata (W. Peters, 1861) | Pacific banded coffee snake, spotted coffee snake | Costa Rica; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama | |
| Ninia pavimentata (Bocourt, 1883) | northern banded coffee snake | Guatemala | |
| Ninia psephota (Cope, 1876) | red-bellied coffee snake, Cope's coffee snake | Panama, Costa Rica | |
| Ninia sebae (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854) | redback coffee snake, culebra de cafetal espalda roja | Mexico and Central America. | |
| Ninia teresitae Angarita-Sierra & Lynch, 2017 | Colombia; Ecuador |
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Ninia.
Further reading
- Baird SF, Girard C (1853). Catalogue of North American Reptiles in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Part I.—Serpents. Washington, District of Columbia: xvi + 172 pp. (Ninia, new genus, pp. 49–50).
- Freiberg M (1982). Snakes of South America. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. ISBN 0-87666-912-7. (Genus Ninia, p. 104).