{{Short description|Genus of snakes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Ninia atrata.jpg | image_caption = Hallowell's coffee snake (''Ninia atrata'') | taxon = Ninia | authority = 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.<ref name="ITIS"/>

==Species== There are 12 species that are recognized as being valid.<ref name="ITIS">{{ITIS |id=209481 |taxon=''Ninia '' |accessdate=3 January 2011}}</ref><ref>{{EMBL genus|genus=Ninia}} www.reptile-database.org.</ref> {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- |120px ||''Ninia atrata'' {{small|(Hallowell, 1845)}} || Hallowell's coffee snake|| southern Central America, Ecuador, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago |- | ||''Ninia celata'' <br>{{small|McCranie & Wilson, 1995}}|| ||Costa Rica; Panama |- | ||''Ninia diademata'' {{small|Baird & Girard, 1853}} || ringneck coffee snake|| Belize; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico |- | ||''Ninia espinali'' {{small|McCranie & Wilson, 1995}}||Espinal's coffee snake|| El Salvador; Honduras |- | ||''Ninia franciscoi'' {{small|Angarita-Sierra, 2014}}||Simla coffee snake || Trinidad |- | ||''Ninia guytudori'' {{small|Angarita-Sierra & Arteaga, 2023}}|| || Ecuador |- |120px ||''Ninia hudsoni'' <br>{{small|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'' {{small|(W. Peters, 1861)}} || Pacific banded coffee snake, spotted coffee snake|| Costa Rica; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama |- | ||''Ninia pavimentata'' {{small|(Bocourt, 1883)}}||northern banded coffee snake || Guatemala |- | ||''Ninia psephota'' {{small|(Cope, 1876)}} || red-bellied coffee snake, Cope's coffee snake|| Panama, Costa Rica |- |120px ||''Ninia sebae'' <br>{{small|(A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854)}} || redback coffee snake, ''culebra de cafetal espalda roja''|| Mexico and Central America. |- |120px||''Ninia teresitae'' {{small|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''.

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Further reading== {{Commons category}} {{Wikispecies}} *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.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;104).

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Category:Ninia Category:Colubridae Category:Snake genera Category:Taxa named by Spencer Fullerton Baird Category:Taxa named by Charles Frédéric Girard

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