Pareas

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Pareas

Genus of snakes

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

Species

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

  • Pareas abros Poyarkov, Nguyen, Pawangkhanant, Yushchenko, Brakels, Nguyen, Nguyen, Suwannapoom, Orlov, & Vogel, 2022
  • Pareas andersoniil (Boulenger, 1888) – Anderson's slug snake
  • Pareas atayal You, Poyarkov & Lin, 2015 – Atayal slug-eating snake
  • Pareas berdmorei Theobald, 1868 – Mengla snail-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 dulongjiangensis Liu, Yang, Rao, Guo, & Rao. 2023 – Dulongjiang slug‐eating snake
  • Pareas formosensis (Van Denburgh, 1909) – Formosa slug snake, Taiwan slug snake
  • Pareas geminatus Ding, Chen, Suwannapoom, T.V. Nguyen, Poyarkov & G. Vogel, 2020 – twin slug snake
  • Pareas hamptoni (Boulenger, 1905) – Hampton's slug snake
  • Pareas iwasakii (Maki, 1937)
  • Pareas kaduri Bhosale, Phansalkar, Sawant, Gowande, Patel & Mirza, 2020[5]
  • Pareas komaii (Maki, 1931) – Formosa slug snake
  • Pareas kuznetsovorum Poyarkov, Nguyen, Pawangkhanant, Yushchenko, Brakels, Nguyen, Nguyen, Suwannapoom, Orlov, & Vogel, 2022
  • Pareas macularius Theobald, 1868 – mountain slug snake
  • Pareas margaritophorus (Jan, 1866) – mountain slug snake
  • Pareas menglaensis Wang et al., 2020 – Mengla snail-eating snake[4]
  • Pareas modestus (Theobald, 1868)
  • Pareas monticola (Cantor, 1839) – common slug snake
  • Pareas niger Pope, 1928 – black snail-eating snake, Mengzi snail-eating snake
  • Pareas nigriceps Guo & Deng, 2009 – Xiaoheishan slug-eater snake
  • Pareas nuchalis (Boulenger, 1900)
  • Pareas stanleyi (Boulenger, 1914) – Stanley's slug snake
  • Pareas temporalis Le, Tran, Hoang, & Stuart, 2021
  • Pareas tigerinus Liu, Zhang, Poyarkov, Hou, Wu, Rao, Nguyen & Vogel, 2023 – tiger slug‐eating snake
  • Pareas victorianus G. Vogel, T.V. Nguyen, Zaw & Poyarkov, 2020 – Victoria slug snake
  • Pareas vindumi G. Vogel, 2015 – Vindum's slug eater
  • Pareas xuelinensis Liu & Rao, 2021[6]
  • Pareas yunnanensis Vogt, 1922 – Yunnan slug snake

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

References

  1. [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. [2]
    Pareas at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 12 May 2013.
  3. [3]
    "Pareas ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de
  4. [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. PMC 7297803. PMID 32577082. (Pareas menglaensis, new species).
  5. [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" (PDF). European Journal of Taxonomy (729): 54–73–54–73. doi:10.5852/ejt.2020.729.1191. ISSN 2118-9773. (Pareas kaduri, new species).
  6. [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. PMC 7843430. PMID 33564273. (Pareas xuelinensis, new species).



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