| Pareas | |
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| Pareas carinatus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Pareidae |
| Genus: | Pareas Wagler, 1830[1] |
| Species | |
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29 recognized species, see article. | |
Pareas is a genus of Asian snakes in the family Pareidae. All species in the genus Pareas are harmless to humans.
Species
[edit]Pareas contains the following species:[2][3][4][5]
- Pareas abros Poyarkov, Nguyen, Pawangkhanant, Yushchenko, Brakels, Nguyen, Nguyen, Suwannapoom, Orlov, & Vogel, 2022
- Pareas andersonii (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
[edit]- ^ 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).
- ^ Pareas at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 12 May 2013.
- ^ "Pareas ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de
- ^ a b 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).
- ^ a b 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).
- ^ 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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