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.
Behavior N. hudsoni is terrestrial, living in the leaf litter of the forest.
Reproduction N. hudsoni is oviparous.
References
Further reading Lehr, Edgar (2002). Amphibien und Reptilien in Peru. Münster: Natur und Tier Verlag. 208 pp. . (in German). Parker, H.W. (1940). "Undescribed Anatomical Structures and new Species of Reptiles and Amphibians". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Eleventh Series 5: 257–274. (Ninia hudsoni, new species, p. 270). Torres-Carvajal, Omar; Pazmiño-Otamendi, Gustavo; Salazar-Valenzuela, David (2019). "Reptiles of Ecuador: a resource-rich online portal, with dynamic checklists and photographic guides". Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 13 (1) [General Section]: 209–229 (e178).