NATURAL HISTORY · CATALOGUE RECORD
Cope's Coffee Snake
Ninia psephota (Cope, 1875)
Source-backed taxonomic record
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Ninia psephota (Cope, 1875)
- Name authority
- (Cope, 1875)
- Common name
- Cope's Coffee Snake
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Colubridae
- Genus
- Ninia
- Extinction status
- Not supplied by this source
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- megaclassTetrapoda
- classReptilia Laurenti, 1768
- orderSquamata Oppel, 1811
- suborderSerpentes Linnaeus, 1758
- infraorderAlethinophidia Nopcsa, 1923
- familyColubridae
- subfamilyDipsadinae
- genusNinia Baird & Girard, 1853
- speciesNinia psephota (Cope, 1875)
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Ninia. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Ninia celata Mccranie & Wilson, 1995 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Espinal's Coffee SnakeNinia espinali Mccranie & Wilson, 1995 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Simla CoffeesnakeNinia franciscoi Angarita-Sierra, 2014 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Redback Coffee SnakeNinia sebae (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Northern Banded Coffee SnakeNinia pavimentata (Bocourt, 1883) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ninia teresitae Angarita-Sierra & Lynch, 2017 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hallowell's Coffee SnakeNinia atrata (Hallowell, 1845) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ninia diademata Baird & Girard, 1853 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Guiana Coffee SnakeNinia hudsoni Parker, 1940 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pacific Banded Coffee SnakeNinia maculata (Peters, 1861) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Names & synonyms
Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.
| Recorded name | Source status |
|---|---|
| Ninia cerroensis Taylor, 1954 Taylor, 1954 | synonym |
| Streptophorus oxynotus Werner, 1909 Werner, 1909 | synonym |
| Catostoma psephotum Cope, 1875 Cope, 1875 | synonym |
Documented distribution
Source distribution statements, not a complete range map. A listed locality is not necessarily a place of origin.
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Ninia&species=psephota Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:47FGW. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.