Ninia

Ninia
	Hallowell's coffee snake (Ninia atrata)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Subfamily:	Dipsadinae
Genus:	Ninia; Baird & Girard, 1853

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.^[1]

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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

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