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. www.reptile-database.org. Image Scientific name Common name Distribution Ninia atrata Hallowell's coffee snake southern Central America, Ecuador, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago Ninia celata Costa Rica; Panama Ninia diademata ringneck coffee snake Belize; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico Ninia espinali Espinal's coffee snake El Salvador; Honduras Ninia franciscoi Simla coffee snake Trinidad Ninia guytudori Ecuador Ninia hudsoni Guiana coffee snake, Hudson's coffee snake Guiana, Ecuador (Amazonas), Peru (Pasco, Tambopata, Madre de Dios), Brazil (Rondônia), SW Colombia Ninia maculata Pacific banded coffee snake, spotted coffee snake Costa Rica; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama Ninia pavimentata northern banded coffee snake Guatemala Ninia psephota red-bellied coffee snake, Cope's coffee snake Panama, Costa Rica Ninia sebae redback coffee snake, culebra de cafetal espalda roja Mexico and Central America.Ninia teresitae Colombia; Ecuador Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Ninia.
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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. . (Genus Ninia, p. 104).