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title: "Spotted Coffee Snake"
description: "Ninia maculata — Reptiles. Ninia maculata, the Pacific banded coffee snake or spotted coffee snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/spotted-coffee-snake
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Spotted Coffee Snake

> Ninia maculata — Reptiles. Ninia maculata, the Pacific banded coffee snake or spotted coffee snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae.

- Scientific name: *Ninia maculata*
- Category: `reptiles` (Reptiles)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest)
- iNaturalist observations: 562
- Wikidata: [Q3341994](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3341994)
- iNaturalist taxon: [29291](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/29291)

## Names

- en: Spotted Coffee Snake
- es: Culebra manchada de café

## Countries with the most observations

CR (453), PA (49), HN (4)

## Summary

Ninia maculata, the Pacific banded coffee snake or spotted coffee snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae.  The species is native to Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninia_maculata

## Photo

![Spotted Coffee Snake](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/spotted-coffee-snake/medium.jpg)

Photo: Leo Arias · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/79887590

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/spotted-coffee-snake?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).