Pareas iwasakii

Pareas iwasakii

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Pareoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: 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 Subordo: Serpentes Cladus: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Pareoidea

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

Name

Pareas iwasakii (Maki, 1937)

• Holotype: ?KUM, ♂, collected by Iwasaki on 26 January 1937. [lost fide Toriba (1993: 72)]
• Type locality: “Ishigaka-jima, Riukyu Archipelagoes”.

Combinations

• Amblycephalus formosensis iwasakii Maki, 1937: 217 [original combination, as subspecies]
• Pareas formosensis iwasakii — Koba, Okada & Chinen, 1959: 27 [subsequent combination]
• Pareas iwasakii — Takara, 1962: 67 [subsequent combination, elevate to species]

Native distribution areas

• Japan: Ryukyu Archipelago: Yaeyama Group: Iriomotejima and Ishigakijima.

References

Primary references

• Hoso, M & Kakegawa, T; 2018. Pareas iwasakii (Iwasaki’s Snail-eating Snake) Diet. Herpetological Review 49 (4): 760-761
• Maki, M. 1937. A new subspecies, Amblycephalus formosensis iwasakii, belonging to Amblycephalidae from Ishigaki-jima. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa 27(169): 217–218. Academia Sinica NDL Digital Collections Reference page. 
• Koba, K., Okada, Y. & Chinen, S. 1959. [Reptilia]. pp. 26-30 In Okada, Y. (Ed.). 沖縄産動物目録 [=List of animals from Okinawa]. Okinawa Biological Education Study Group: Naha. 384 pp. Reference page. 
• Takara, T. 1962. 琉球列島における陸棲蛇類の研究 [Studies on the terrestrial snakes in the Ryukyu Archipelago]. The Science Bulletin of the Division of Agriculture, Home Economics and Engineering, University of the Ryukyus 9: 1–202. hdl: 20.500.12000/23110 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, P., Reyes, R., Kudera, F. & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Pareas iwasakii. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 3 October 2021.
• Kidera, N. & Ota, H. 2017. IUCN: Pareas iwasakii  (Near Threatened). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T16220A96877422. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T16220A96877422.en

Vernacular names

English: Iwasaki's Slug Eater
日本語: イワサキセダカヘビ
中文: 琉球鈍頭蛇