Ninia atrata ( Hallowell, 1845 )

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, Check List 13 (4), pp. 203-237 : 225

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.