Pareas formosensis

Pareas formosensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Pareoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Cladus: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Pareoidea

Familia: Pareidae
Subfamilia: Pareinae
Genus: Pareas
Species: Pareas formosensis

Name

Pareas formosensis (Van Denburgh, 1909)

• Holotype: CAS 18006, collected by V. Kühne on 27 March 1909.
• Type locality: “Kanshirei [=Kuan-tzu Ling], Formosa [=Taiwan]”.

Combinations

• Amblycephalus formosensis Van Denburgh, 1909: 55 [original combination]

Synonyms

• Psammodynastes compressus Oshima, 1910: 201
  • Holotype: NSMT H02567.
  • Type locality: “Kokwangai, Taihoku”.

References

Primary references

• Van Denburgh, J. 1909. New and previously unrecorded species of reptiles and amphibians from the island of Formosa. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series 3: 49–56. BHL Reference page. 
• Oshima, M. 1910. An Annotated List of Formosan Snakes, with Descriptions of Four New Species and One New Subspecies. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses 7(3): 185–207. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Ota, H., Lin, J.-T., Hirata, T. & Chen, S.-L. 1997. Systematic Review of Colubrid Snakes of the Genus Pareas in the East Asian Islands. Journal of Herpetology 31(1): 79–87. DOI: 10.2307/1565332 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Pareas formosensis. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 27 September 2019.
• Rao, D.-q. & Lau, M. 2012. IUCN: Pareas formosensis  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T191967A2022215. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T191967A2022215.en

Vernacular names

• English: Formosa Slug Snake