Pareas Explained

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:^{[1] [2] [3]}

• Pareas abros
• Pareas andersonii – Anderson's slug snake
• Pareas atayal – Atayal slug-eating snake
• Pareas berdmorei – Mengla snail-eating snake
• Pareas boulengeri – Boulenger's slug snake
• Pareas carinatus – keeled slug snake
• Pareas chinensis – Chinese slug snake
• Pareas dulongjiangensis – Dulongjiang slug‐eating snake
• Pareas formosensis – Formosa slug snake, Taiwan slug snake
• Pareas geminatus – twin slug snake
• Pareas hamptoni – Hampton's slug snake
• Pareas iwasakii
• Pareas kaduri ^[3]
• Pareas komaii – Formosa slug snake
• Pareas kuznetsovorum
• Pareas macularius – mountain slug snake
• Pareas margaritophorus – mountain slug snake
• Pareas menglaensis – Mengla snail-eating snake^[2]
• Pareas modestus
• Pareas monticola – common slug snake
• Pareas niger – black snail-eating snake, Mengzi snail-eating snake
• Pareas nigriceps – Xiaoheishan slug-eater snake
• Pareas nuchalis
• Pareas stanleyi – Stanley's slug snake
• Pareas temporalis
• Pareas tigerinus – tiger slug‐eating snake
• Pareas victorianus – Victoria slug snake
• Pareas vindumi – Vindum's slug eater
• Pareas xuelinensis ^[4]
• Pareas yunnanensis – Yunnan slug snake

Nota bene

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

Notes and References

1. "Pareas ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de
2. 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. en. 939 . 45–64. 32577082 . 10.3897/zookeys.939.49309. 7297803 . 1313-2970. free. (Pareas menglaensis, new species).
3. 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. en. 729. 54–73–54–73. 10.5852/ejt.2020.729.1191. 2118-9773. free. (Pareas kaduri, new species).
4. Liu. Shuo. Rao. Dingqi. 2021-01-21. A new species of the genus Pareas (Squamata, Pareidae) from Yunnan, China. ZooKeys. en. 1011 . 121–138. 33564273. 10.3897/zookeys.1011.59029. 7843430. 1313-2970. free. (Pareas xuelinensis, new species).