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    Species Accepted

    Ninia psephota (Cope, 1875)

    Checkered Coffee Snake

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      7 results
      Checkered Coffee Snake English
      Cobra-dos-cafezais-de-Cope Portuguese
      Colubro del caffè di Cope Italian
      Colubro del caffè ventrerosso Italian
      Cope's Coffee Snake English
      Culebra de Cafetal Cuadriculada Spanish
      Red-bellied Coffee Snake English

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      15 results
      Cope, E. D. (1875). On the Batrachia and Reptilia of Costa Rica with notes on the herpetology and ichthyology of Nicaragua and Peru. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia N.S. (2) 8: 93-183 [Sometimes Said to Be Published 1876 but See Murphy et Al. 2007 for Clarification]].
      Solorzano, A. (2004). Serpientes de Costa Rica - Snakes of Costa Rica. Editorial INBio, Costa Rica, 792 Pp.
      Savage, J. M. (2002). The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Herpetofauna Between Two Continents, Between Two Seas. University of Chicago Press, 934 Pp. [Review in Copeia 2003 (1): 205].
      Angarita-Sierra, & Teddy. (2014). Hemipenial Morphology in the Semifossorial Snakes of the Genus Ninia and a New Species from Trinidad, West Indies (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) . South American J. Herp. 9 (2): 114-130.
      Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy. (2014). Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue]. Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 Pp.
      Sasa, M., Arias, E., & Chaves, G. (2025). Annotated list of amphibians and reptiles of Costa Rica: The role of the Museum of Zoology in cataloging the country’s herpetological diversity. Revista de Biología Tropical, 73(S2): E64536-E64536.
      Taylor, E. H. (1954). Further studies on the serpents of Costa Rica. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 36: 673-800.
      Werner, F. (1909). Über neue oder seltene Reptilien des Naturhistorischen Museums in Hamburg. Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anst. Suppl. 2 (Mitt. Naturhist. Mus. Hamb. 1908) 26: 205-247.
      Burger, W. L., & Werler, J. E. (1954). The subspecies of the ring-necked coffee snake Ninia diademata, and a short biological and taxonomic account of the genus. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 36: 643-672.
      Savage, J. M., & Lahanas, P. N. (1991). On the species of the colubrid snake genus Ninia in Costa Rica and Western Panama. Herpetologica 47 (1): 37-53.

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