Ninia atrata

Ninia atrata (Hallowell, 1845): Figure 13B Coluber atratus Hallowell 1845: 245. Ninia atrata — Cope 1860: 340. Material examined. Table 2. Ninia tereseitae Angarita-Sierra & Lynch, 2017: Figure 13C Ninia tereseitae Angarita-Sierra and Lynch (2017): 478. Material examined. Table 2. Oxyrhopus petolarius (Linnaeus, 1758): Figure 13D Coluber petola Linnaeus 1758: 225. Oxyrhopus petolarius — Duméril and Bibron 1854: 1033. Material examined. Table 2. Rhadinaea decorata (Günther, 1858): Figure 13E Coronella decorata Günther 1858: 35. Rhadinaea decorata — Taylor 1949: 196. Material examined. Table 2. This small, brown snake has a white, black-bordered line that goes from the postoculars through the fifth and sixth dorsal rows to the tip of the tail. The vertebral region is a little paler than below the lines. Specimens of Rhadinaea decorata often have a subpreocular scale and 110–134 ventral scales (Myers 1974). The most similar species in the region is Urotheca fulviceps, which has a reddish or purple head band, a pale line running along the first and second dorsal scale rows and more than 136 ventrals.
Published as part of Restrepo, Adriana, Molina-Zuluaga, Claudia, Hurtado, Juan P., Marín, Carlos M. & Daza, Juan M., 2017, Amphibians and reptiles from two localities in the northern Andes of Colombia, pp. 203-237 in Check List 13 (4) on page 225, DOI: 10.15560/13.4.203
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