Pareas

Pareas carinatus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Craniata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Familia: Pareidae
Subfamilia: Pareinae
Genus: Pareas
Species (22): P. andersonii – P. atayal – P. boulengeri – P. carinatus – P. chinensis – P. formosensis – P. geminatus – P. hamptoni – P. iwasakii – P. kaduri – P. komaii – P. macularius – P. margaritophorus – P. menglaensis – P. mengziensis – P. modestus – P. monticola – P. nigriceps – P. nuchalis – P. stanleyi – P. vindumi – P. xuelinensis

Name

Pareas Wagler, 1830: 181 [conserved name]

• Type species: Dipsas carinata Reinhardt (in error) [=Wagler, 1830], by monotypy.
• Gender: masculine.
• Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 963 (1971: 44).

References

Primary references

• Wagler, J.G. 1830. Natürliches System der Amphibien, mit vorangehender Classification der Säugetiere und Vögel. Ein Beitrag zur vergleichenden Zoologie.. J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung: München, Stuttgart, & Tübingen. 354 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1971. Opinion 963. Amplycephalus Kuhl & van Hasselt, 1822 (Reptilia): suppressed under the Plenary Powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 28(1–2): 44–45. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Guo, K. & Deng, X. 2009. A new species of Pareas (Serpentes: Colubridae: Pareatinae) from the Gaoligong Mountains, southwestern China. Zootaxa 2008: 53–60. Abstract & excerpt. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2008.1.5 Reference page. 
• Vogel, G. 2015. A New Montane Species of the Genus Pareas Wagler, 1830 (Squamata: Pareatidae) from Northern Myanmar. Taprobanica 7(1): 1–7. DOI: 10.4038/tapro.v7i1.7501 Reference page. 
• You, C.-W., Poyarkov Jr., N.A. & Lin, S.-M. 2015. Diversity of the snail-eating snakes Pareas (Serpentes, Pareatidae) from Taiwan. Zoologica Scripta 44(4): 349–361. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12111 Reference page. 
• Wang, P., Che, J., Liu, Q., Li, K., Jin, J.-Q., Jiang, K., Shi, L. & Guo, P. 2020. 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 Reference page. 
• Bhosale, H., Phansalkar, P., Sawant, M., Gowande, G., Patel, H. & Mirza, Z.A. 2020. A new species of snail-eating snakes of the genus Pareas Wagler, 1830 (Reptilia: Serpentes) from eastern Himalayas, India. European Journal of Taxonomy 729: 54–73. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.729.1191 Reference page. 
• Liu, S. & Rao, D.-Q. 2021. A new species of the genus Pareas (Squamata, Pareidae) from Yunnan, China. ZooKeys 1011: 121–138. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1011.59029 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2021. Pareas . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 22 October 2019.
• Pareas – Taxon details on Interim Register of Marine and Non-marine Genera (IRMNG).
• Pareas – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Eigentliche Asiatische Schneckennattern
English: Oriental Slug Snakes

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