Pareas
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| Pareas carinatus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Pareidae |
| Genus: | Pareas Wagler, 1830[1] |
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29 recognized species, see article. | |
Pareas is a genus of Asian snakes in the family Pareidae. Members of the genus are dietary specialists mainly or exclusively feeding on snails (limaxivory), hence their common name, slug snakes. All species in the genus Pareas are harmless to humans.
Species
[edit | edit source]Pareas contains the following species:[2][3][4][5][6]
- 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 baiseensis Wu, Gong, Huang, & Xu, 2023
- Pareas berdmorei Theobald, 1868 – Mengla snail-eating snake
- Pareas boulengeri (Angel, 1920) – Boulenger's slug snake
- Pareas capitulatus Stuart et al. 2025 - narrow-headed snail-eating 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 guanyinshanensis Liu, Yang, Rao, Guo, & Rao, 2023 – Guanyinshan slug-eating 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 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[7]
- 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 | edit source]- ^ 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
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (Pareas menglaensis, new species).
- ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (Pareas kaduri, new species).
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- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (Pareas xuelinensis, new species).
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