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Ninia hudsoni PARKER, 1940

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Guiana Coffee Snake, Hudson's Coffee Snake
Portuguese: Cobra-Preta-de-Cabeça-Branca, Cobra-do-Café 
SynonymNinia hudsoni PARKER 1940: 270
Ninia hudsoni — DUELLMAN 1978: 250
Ninia hudsoni — LEHR et al. 2002
Ninia hudsoni — BERNARDE et al. 2012
Ninia hudsoni — WALLACH et al. 2014: 487
Ninia hudsoni — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019 
DistributionGuiana, Ecuador (Amazonas), Peru (Pasco [HR 31: 56], Tambopata, Madre de Dios: [HR 31: 188]), Brazil (Rondônia), SW Colombia

Type locality: New River, British Guiana  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1939.1.19. male 
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Comment 
EtymologyNamed after C. A. Hudson, collector of the types, but otherwise mainly collector of entomological specimens for the Natural History Museum, London. 
References
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  • Bernal, R. 2025. Serpientes de Colombia-Guía de Campo. Serie de Guías Tropicales de Campo. 19: 396 pp. Conservación Internacional Colombia, Bogotá - get paper here
  • BERNARDE, P.S., ALBUQUERQUE, S., BARROS, T.O. & TURCI, L.C.B. 2012. Serpentes do Estado de Rondônia, Brasil. Biota Neotropica 12 (3): 1-29 - get paper here
  • Betancourth-Cundar, Mileidy & Aquiles Gutiérrez Zamora 2010. ASPECTOS ECOLÓGICOS DE LA HERPETOFAUNA DEL CENTRO EXPERIMENTAL AMAZÓNICO, PUTUMAYO, COLOMBIA ECOTRÓPICOS 23 (2): 61-78 - get paper here
  • 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 - get paper here
  • Camper, Jeffrey D. 2015. Ninia hudsoni (Hudson's coffee snake) maximum size. Herpetological Review 46 (3): 452-453 - get paper here
  • CATENAZZI, A., LEHR, E. & VON MAY, R. 2013. The amphibians and reptiles of Manu National Park and its buffer zone, Amazon basin and eastern slopes of the Andes, Peru. Biota Neotropica 13 (4): 269-283 - get paper here
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  • Duellman, W. E. 1978. The biology of an equatorial herpetofauna in Amazonian Ecuador. Misc. Publ. Univ. Kans. Mus. Nat. Hist. 65: 1-352 - get paper here
  • Freitas, M. A. de, Venancio, N. M., Abegg, A. D., Azevedo, W. S, Pereira, V. O., Zanotti, A. P., Veloso, A., Schwarzbach, L., Oliveira, A. G., da Silva, R. C. C., de Amorim, V. R. G. and de Moura, G. J. B. 2020. Herpetofauna at the Rio Acre Ecological Station, Amazon Rainforest, Brazil. Herpetology Notes 13: 33-48. - get paper here
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  • Lehr, E. 2002. Amphibien und Reptilien in Peru. Natur und Tier-Verlag (Münster), 208 pp. - get paper here
  • Lehr, E. & Lara, J. 2002. Die Schlangenfauna von Pozuzo (Peru) (Reptilia: Serpentes). Faun. Abh. Mus. Tierk. Dresden 22 (2): 353-359
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  • São-Pedro, Vinícius de Avelar; Marco Antônio de Freitas, Eliana Faria de Oliveira, Nathocley Mendes Venâncio & Alexandre Pinheiro Zanotti 2016. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF Ninia hudsoni (SERPENTES: DIPSADIDAE) WITH NEW OCCURRENCE RECORDS. Oecologia Australis 20(4): 537-542; doi: 10.4257/oeco.2016.2004.14 - get paper here
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