Ninia
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.| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
| Ninia atrata | 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, Peru, Brazil, 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 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.