page_title: List of reptiles of Guatemala
section_title: Colubridae
hierarchical_section_title: List of reptiles of Guatemala / Snakes (Squamata - suborder Serpentes) / Colubridae
caption_attribution_description: English: A snake feeding on en:Smoky Jungle Frog?
context_page_description: This is a list reptiles in Guatemala, including snakes, lizards, crocodilians, and turtles.
  Guatemala has a large variety of habitats, from tropical rain forests, dry thorn scrubs, cloud forests, coastal marshes, pine forests, mountains and lowlands. This vast contrast in biomes makes Guatemala home to a large variety of herpetofauna. These include approximately 240 species of reptiles, subdivided in 3 orders and 29 families.
context_section_description: Order: Squamata. 
  Family: Colubridae
  Colubridae (from Latin coluber, snake) is a family of snakes. This broad classification of snakes includes about two-thirds of all snake species on earth. The earliest species of the snake family date back to the Oligocene epoch. 
  While most colubrids are nonvenomous (or have venom that is not known to be harmful to humans) and are mostly harmless, a few groups, such as genus Boiga, can produce medically significant bites. Colubridae is the largest snake family and Colubrid species are found on every continent except Antarctica. There are 304 genera and 1,938 colubrid species worldwide, and 105 species occurring in Guatemala.
  Dary's burrowing snake – Adelphicos daryi Campbell and Ford, 1982 (EN)
  Adelphicos ibarrorum Campbell and Brodie, 1988
  Guatemala burrowing snake – Adelphicos veraepacis Stuart, 1941
  Middle American burrowing snake – Adelphicos quadrivirgatum Jan, 1862
  Rustyhead snake – Amastridium veliferum Cope, 1861
  Chapinophis xanthocheilus Campbell and Smith, 1998 (E)
  Mussurana – Clelia clelia Daudin, 1803
  Mexican snake eater – Clelia scytalina Cope, 1866
  Eastern racer – Coluber constrictor Linnaeus, 1758
  Two-spotted snake – Coniophanes bipunctatus Günther
  Yellowbelly snake – Coniophanes fissidens Günther
  Black-striped snake – Coniophanes imperialis (Kennicott, 1859)
  Cope's black-striped snake – Coniophanes piceivittis Cope, 1869
  Five-striped snake – Coniophanes quinquevittatus Duméril, Bibron, and Duméril, 1854
  Faded black-striped snake – Coniophanes schmidti Bailey, 1937
  Conophis lineatus Duméril, Bibron, and Duméril, 1854
  Crisantophis nevermanni (Dunn, 1937)
  Pink-tailed forest racer – Dendrophidion nuchalis (Peters, 1864
  Barred forest racer – Dendrophidion vinitor Smith, 1941
  Dipsas brevifacies (Cope, 1866)
  Dryadophis dorsalis (Bocourt, 1890)
  Dryadophis melanolomus (Cope, 1868)
  Eastern indigo snake – Drymarchon corais (Boie, 1827)
  Green highland racer – Drymobius chloroticus (Cope, 1886)
  Speckled racer – Drymobius margariterus (Schlegel, 1837)
  Mexican night snake – Elaphe flavirufa (Cope, 1867)
  Pacific longtail snake – Enulius flavitorques Cope, 1868
  Blotched hook-nosed snake – Ficimia publia Cope, 1866
  Chiapas earth snake – Geophis cancellatus Smith, 1941
  Keeled earth snake – Geophis carinosus Stuart, 1941
  Mertens' earth snake – Geophis fulvoguttatus Mertens, 1952
  Downs' earth snake – Geophis immaculatus Downs, 1967
  Coffee earth snake – Geophis nasalis Cope, 1868
  Rosebelly earth snake – Geophis rhodogaster (Cope, 1868)
  Costa Rica water snake – Hydromorphus concolor Peters, 1859
  Blunthead tree snake – Imantodes cenchoa (Linnaeus, 1758)
  Central American tree snake – Imantodes gemmistratus (Cope, 1861)
  Milk snake – Lampropeltis triangulum (Lacépède, 1789)
  Banded cat-eyed snake – Leptodeira annulata (Linnaeus, 1758)
  Rainforest cat-eyed snake – Leptodeira frenata (Cope, 1886)
  Black-banded cat-eyed snake – Leptodeira nigrofasciata Günther, 1868
  Leptodeira polysticta Günther, 1895 [Leptodeira septentrionalis polysticta]
  Striped lowland snake – Leptodrymus pulcherrimus (Cope, 1874)
  Parrot snake – Leptophis ahaetulla (Linnaeus, 1758)
  Mexican parrot snake – Leptophis mexicanus Duméril, Bibron, and Duméril, 1854
  Cloud forest parrot snake – Leptophis modestus (Günther, 1872)
  Masticophis mentovarius (Duméril, Bibron, and Duméril, 1854)
  Ringneck coffee snake – Ninia diademata Baird and Girard, 1853
  Ninia pavimentata (Bocourt, 1883)
  Redback coffee snake – Ninia sebae (Duméril, Bibron, and Duméril, 1854)
  Brown vine snake – Oxybelis aeneus (Wagler, 1830)
  Green vine snake – Oxybelis fulgidus (Daudin, 1803)
  False coral – Oxyrhopus petola (Linnaeus, 1758)
  Middle American gopher snake – Pituophis lineaticollis (Cope, 1861)
  Variegated false coral snake – Pliocercus elapoides Cope, 1860
  Puffing snake – Pseustes poecilonotus (Günther, 1858)
  Rhadinaea anachoreta Smith and Campbell, 1994
  Rhadinaea decorata (Günther, 1858)
  Godman's graceful brown snake – Rhadinaea godmani (Günther, 1865)
  Hannstein's spot-lipped snake – Rhadinaea hannsteini (Stuart, 1949)
  Hempstead's pine woods snake – Rhadinaea hemp
caption: Clelia clelia
exif: {"Image Make": "Canon", "Image Model": "Canon PowerShot S410", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "200", "Image YResolution": "200", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image DateTime": "2004:12:22 19:25:05", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop CS Windows", "Image ExifOffset": "320", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "1230", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "4343", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/60", "EXIF FNumber": "49/10", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0220", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2004:12:09 14:38:54", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2004:12:09 14:38:54", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF CompressedBitsPerPixel": "5", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "189/32", "EXIF ApertureValue": "147/32", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "147/32", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF Flash": "Flash fired, auto mode, red-eye reduction mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "711/32", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "1368", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "772", "Interoperability InteroperabilityIndex": "R98", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "Interoperability RelatedImageWidth": "2272", "Interoperability RelatedImageLength": "1704", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "1080", "EXIF FocalPlaneXResolution": "56800/7", "EXIF FocalPlaneYResolution": "56800/7", "EXIF FocalPlaneResolutionUnit": "2", "EXIF SensingMethod": "One-chip color area", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF DigitalZoomRatio": "1", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard"}