Ninia

 ( Colubridae ) 

Ninia, Common name referred to as coffee snakes, is a genus of 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.

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Species There are 12 species that are recognized as being valid. www.reptile-database.org.

southern Central America, Ecuador, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago

Costa Rica; Panama

Belize; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico

El Salvador; Honduras

Trinidad

Ecuador

Guiana, Ecuador (Amazonas), Peru (Pasco, Tambopata, Madre de Dios), Brazil (Rondônia), SW Colombia

Costa Rica; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama

Guatemala

Panama, Costa Rica

Mexico and Central America.

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).
• (1982). Snakes of South America. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. . (Genus Ninia, p. 104).

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