Pareas

Genus of snakes

Pareas

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

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

^ 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).