Ninia hudsoni

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| image = Ninia hudsoni 250508001.jpeg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref ={{cite iucn |author=Catenazzi, A.|author-link=species:Alessandro Catenazzi |author2=Cisneros-Heredia, D.F. |author2-link=species:Diego Francisco Cisneros-Heredia |author3=Gagliardi, G. |author3-link=species:Giussepe Gagliardi-Urrutia |author4=Nogueira, C.|author4-link=species:Cristiano de Campos Nogueira |year=2019 |title=Ninia hudsoni |page=e.T203550A2768349|doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T203550A2768349.en|access-date=2 December 2021}}

| genus = Ninia

| species = hudsoni

| authority = H. Parker, 1940

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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. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (Ninia hudsoni, p. 127).

Geographic range

N. hudsoni is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, and Peru.{{cite web |title=Ninia hudsoni |url=https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Ninia&species=hudsoni&search_param=%28%28search%3D%27Ninia%27%29%29|publisher=The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org |accessdate=23 January 2019}}

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of N. hudsoni is forest, at altitudes of {{cvt|200|–|1,300|m|ft}}.

Description

A small snake species, N. hudsoni may attain a total length (including tail) of about {{cvt|42|cm|in}}.Camper, Jeffrey D. (2015). "Ninia hudsoni (Hudson's Coffee Snake). Maximum Size". Herpetological Review 46 (3): 452–453.

Ninia hudsoni

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