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Ninia Franciscoi
''Ninia'', Common name, commonly referred to as coffee snakes, is a genus of snakes in the Family (biology), 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. www.reptile-database.org. ''Nota bene'': A Binomial nomenclature, binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Ninia''. References Further reading

*Spencer Fullerton Baird, Baird SF, Charles Frédéric Girard, 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). *species:Marcos Abraham Freiberg, Freiberg M (1982). ''Snakes of South America''. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. ...
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Ninia Atrata
''Ninia atrata'', known Common name, commonly as Hallowell's coffee snake, Hallowell's earth snake, the red-nape snake, and the South American coffee snake, is a species of small terrestrial snake in the Family (biology), family Colubridae. The species is native to southern Central America and northern South America. Geographic range ''N. atrata'' is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. www.reptile-database.org. Habitat The preferred natural habitats of ''N. atrata'' are forest and savanna, at altitudes from sea level to . Diet ''N. atrata'' is believed to feed on insect larvae, termites and slugs. Reproduction ''N. atrata'' is Oviparity, oviparous. References Further reading

*Teddy Angarita-Sierra, Angarita-Sierra T (2017). "Ninia atrata ''(Hallowell 1845), Viejita''". ''Catálogo de anfibios y reptiles de Colombia'' 3 (2): 30–37. (in Spanish). *:es:Marcos Abraham Freiberg, Freiberg M (1982). ''Snakes of South America''. Hong Kong: ...
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Ninia Franciscoi
''Ninia'', Common name, commonly referred to as coffee snakes, is a genus of snakes in the Family (biology), 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. www.reptile-database.org. ''Nota bene'': A Binomial nomenclature, binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Ninia''. References Further reading

*Spencer Fullerton Baird, Baird SF, Charles Frédéric Girard, 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). *species:Marcos Abraham Freiberg, Freiberg M (1982). ''Snakes of South America''. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. ...
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Edward Drinker Cope
Edward Drinker Cope (July 28, 1840 – April 12, 1897) was an American zoologist, paleontology, paleontologist, comparative anatomy, comparative anatomist, herpetology, herpetologist, and ichthyology, ichthyologist. Born to a wealthy Quaker family, he distinguished himself as a child prodigy interested in science, publishing his first scientific paper at the age of 19. Though his father tried to raise Cope as a gentleman farmer, he eventually acquiesced to his son's scientific aspirations. Cope had little formal scientific training, and he eschewed a teaching position for field work. He made regular trips to the Western United States, American West, prospecting in the 1870s and 1880s, often as a member of United States Geological Survey, U.S. Geological Survey teams. A personal feud between Cope and paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh led to a period of intense fossil-finding competition now known as the Bone Wars. Cope's financial fortunes soured after failed mining ventures i ...
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Ninia Psephota
''Ninia psephota'', the red-bellied coffee snake or Cope's coffee snake , is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to Panama and Costa Rica Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in Central America. It borders Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the northeast, Panama to the southeast, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, as well as Maritime bo .... References {{Taxonbar, from=Q3341996 Ninia Snakes of Central America Reptiles of Panama Reptiles of Costa Rica Reptiles described in 1875 Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope ...
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Marie Firmin Bocourt
Marie Firmin Bocourt (19 April 1819 – 4 February 1904) was a French zoologist and artist. As a young man, he worked as a preparateur for the zoologist Gabriel Bibron (1805–1848), later serving as a museum artist. In 1861, he was sent to Thailand (then called Siam), where he explored the fauna and brought back an important collection of specimens. xiii + 244 pp. (Bocourt, p. 25). He collaborated with Auguste Duméril (1812–1870) on a series called ''Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale'', a result of Bocourt's scientific expedition to Mexico and Central America in 1864–1866, in one part during the Second French intervention in Mexico, French Intervention in Mexico led by Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon III. Auguste Duméril died in 1870, and the project was continued by Bocourt with assistance from Léon Vaillant (1834–1914), François Mocquard (1834–1917) and Fernand Angel (1881–1950). With Vaillant, he published a study on fishes, "''Étud ...
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Ninia Pavimentata
''Ninia pavimentata'', the northern banded coffee snake, is a species of snake in the Family (biology), family Colubridae. The species is native to Guatemala and Honduras. References

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Wilhelm Peters
Wilhelm Karl Hartwich (or Hartwig) Peters (22 April 1815 – 20 April 1883) was a German natural history, naturalist and explorer. He was assistant to the anatomist Johannes Peter Müller and later became curator of the Natural History Museum, Berlin, Berlin Zoological Museum. Encouraged by Müller and the explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Peters travelled to Mozambique via Angola in September 1842, exploring the coastal region and the Zambesi River. He returned to Berlin with an enormous collection of natural history specimens, which he then described in ''Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique... in den Jahren 1842 bis 1848 ausgeführt'' (1852–1882). The work was comprehensive in its coverage, dealing with mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, river fish, insects and botany. He replaced Martin Lichtenstein as curator of the museum in 1858, and in the same year he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In a few years, he greatly increased ...
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Ninia Maculata
''Ninia maculata'', the Pacific banded coffee snake or spotted coffee snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and .... References {{Taxonbar, from=Q3341994 Ninia Snakes of Central America Reptiles of Guatemala Reptiles of Honduras Reptiles of Nicaragua Reptiles of Costa Rica Reptiles of Panama Reptiles described in 1940 Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters ...
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Hampton Wildman Parker
Hampton Wildman Parker, CBE (5 July 1897 – 2 September 1968) was an English zoologist. Parker graduated from Cambridge in 1923 with degrees in botany, zoology, and chemistry. Within the same year, he joined the staff of the British Museum (Natural History Museum, London, Natural History Museum) and was later assigned Keeper of Zoology from 1947 to 1957. During his career, he wrote several works on snakes and frogs. Parker also discovered a new species of lizard on the Seychelles, which he described and named Vesey-Fitzgerald's burrowing skink (''Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi'') after Entomology, entomologist Leslie Desmond Foster Vesey-Fitzgerald. Books by H.W. Parker *1934. ''A Monograph of the Frogs of the Family Microhylidae''. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). *1963. ''Snakes''. London: Hale. *1965. ''Natural History of Snakes''. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). *1977. ''Snakes, a Natural History''. University of Queensland ...
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Ninia Hudsoni
''Ninia hudsoni'', also known commonly as the Guyana coffee snake and Hudson's coffee snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to northwestern South America. Etymology The specific name, ''hudsoni'', is in honor of Mr. C.A. Hudson who collected the holotype of this species, as well as many entomological specimens, for the British Museum (Natural History). Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Ninia hudsoni'', p. 127). Geographic range ''N. hudsoni'' is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, and Peru. Habitat The preferred natural habitat of ''N. hudsoni'' is forest, at altitudes of . Description A small snake species, ''N. hudsoni'' may attain a total length (including tail) of about . Camper, Jeffrey D. (2015). "''Ninia hudsoni'' (Hudson's Coffee Snake). Maximum Size". ''Herpetological Review'' 46 (3): 452–453. ...
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Ninia Hudsoni 250508001
''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. www.reptile-database.org. ''Nota bene'': A binomial authority In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, altho ... in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Ninia''. References 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 g ...
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