Coffee Snakes
Ninia
Ninia is a genus of colubroid snakes commonly referred to as coffee snakes. The genus consists of 10 species that are native to Mexico, Central America, and the northern part of South America. Some species are also found on the Caribbean islands.
13 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 13 known species
Red Coffee Snake
speciesNinia sebae
Spotted Coffee Snake
speciesNinia maculata
Ringneck Coffee Snake
speciesNinia diademata
Hallowell's Coffee Snake
speciesNinia atrata
Ninia teresitae
speciesNinia teresitae
Cope's Coffee Snake
speciesNinia psephota
Hudson's Coffee Snake
speciesNinia hudsoni
Espinal's Coffee Snake
speciesNinia espinali
Simla Coffeesnake
speciesNinia franciscoi
Tudors’s Coffee-Snake
speciesNinia guytudori
Costa Rican Coffee Snake
speciesNinia celata
Northern Banded Coffee Snake
speciesNinia pavimentata
Schmidt’s Coffee-Snake
speciesNinia schmidti
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 29282.