Pareas

Pareas is a genus of Asian snakes in the family Pareidae. All species in the genus Pareas are harmless to humans.

Pareas
Pareas carinatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Pareidae
Genus: Pareas
Wagler, 1830[1]
Species

21 recognized species, see article.

Species

Pareas contains the following species:[2][3][4][5]

  • Pareas andersoniil (Boulenger, 1888) – Anderson’s slug snake
  • Pareas atayal You, Poyarkov & Lin, 2015 – Atayal slug-eating snake
  • Pareas boulengeri (Angel, 1920) – Boulenger's slug snake
  • Pareas carinatus (H. Boie, 1828) – keeled slug snake
  • Pareas chinensis (Barbour, 1912) – Chinese slug snake
  • Pareas formosensis (Van Denburgh, 1909) – Formosa slug snake, Taiwan slug snake
  • Pareas geminatus Ding, Chen, Suwannapoom, Nguyen, Poyarkov, & Vogel, 2020 – twin slug snake
  • Pareas hamptoni (Boulenger, 1905) – Hampton's slug snake
  • Pareas iwasakii (Maki, 1937)
  • Pareas komaii (Maki, 1931) – Formosa slug snake
  • Pareas macularius Theobald, 1868 – mountain slug snake
  • Pareas margaritophorus (Jan, 1866) – mountain slug snake
  • Pareas menglaensis Wang et al, 2020 – Mengla snail-eating snake
  • Pareas mengziensis Wang et al, 2020 – Mengzi snail-eating snake
  • Pareas modestus (Theobald, 1868)
  • Pareas monticola (Cantor, 1839) – common slug snake
  • Pareas nigriceps Guo & Deng, 2009 – Xiaoheishan slug-eater snake
  • Pareas nuchalis (Boulenger, 1900)
  • Pareas stanleyi (Boulenger, 1914) – Stanley's slug snake
  • Pareas vindumi G. Vogel, 2015 – Vindum’s slug eater
  • Pareas xuelinensis Liu & Rao, 2021[6]

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Pareas.

References
  1. Wagler J (1830). Natürliches System der AMPHIBIEN, mit vorangehender Classification der SÄUGTHIERE und VÖGEL. Ein Beitrag zur vergleichenden Zoologie. Munich, Stuttgart and Tübingen: J.G. Cotta. vi + 354 pp. + one plate. (Pareas, new genus, p. 181). (in German and Latin).
  2. Pareas at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 12 May 2013.
  3. "Pareas ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de
  4. Wang, Ping; Che, Jing; Liu, Qin; Li, Ke; Jin, Jie Qiong; Jiang, Ke; Shi, Lei; Guo, Peng (2020-09-06). "A revised taxonomy of Asian snail-eating snakes Pareas (Squamata, Pareidae): evidence from morphological comparison and molecular phylogeny". ZooKeys. 939: 45–64. doi:10.3897/zookeys.939.49309. ISSN 1313-2970.
  5. Bhosale, Harshal; Phansalkar, Pushkar; Sawant, Mandar; Gowande, Gaurang; Patel, Harshil; Mirza, Zeeshan A. (2020-12-17). "A new species of snail-eating snakes of the genus Pareas Wagler, 1830 (Reptilia: Serpentes) from eastern Himalayas, India". European Journal of Taxonomy. 729: 54–73–54–73. doi:10.5852/ejt.2020.729.1191. ISSN 2118-9773.
  6. Liu, Shuo; Rao, Dingqi (2021-01-21). "A new species of the genus Pareas (Squamata, Pareidae) from Yunnan, China". ZooKeys. 1011: 121–138. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1011.59029. ISSN 1313-2970.


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