Reproduction in the redback coffee snake, Ninia sebae (Serpentes: Colubridae), from southern Mexico and Central America.(GENERAL NOTES)(Report)

The redback coffee snake, Ninia sebae frequents lowlands and premontane slopes from Veracruz and Oaxaca, Mexico, southward through Central America to southern Costa Rica where it is known from 4-1,100 m; it is a secretive, nocturnal leaf litter inhabitant (Savage 2002). There is anecdotal information on its reproductive biology in Gaige (1936); Stuart (1948); Alavrez del Toro (1960); Greene (1975); Campbell (1998); Lee (2000); Solorzano (2004). The purpose of this paper is to add additional information on the reproductive biology of N. sebae from a histological examination of museum specimens from southern Mexico and Central America as part of an ongoing study of the ...

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