Pareas niger

Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Pareoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Pareidae
Subfamilia: Pareinae
Genus: Pareas
Species: Pareas niger
Name
[edit]Pareas niger (Pope, 1928)
- Holotype: AMNH 22703, ♀, presented by John Graham.
- Type locality: “Yunnanfu [=Kunming], Yunnan Province, China”.
Combinations
[edit]- Amblycephalus niger Pope, 1928: 4 [original combination]
- Pareas niger — Welch, 1988 [subsequent combination]
Synonyms
[edit]- Pareas mengziensis Wang, Che, Liu, Li, Jin, Jiang, Shi & Guo, 2020: 55 [synonymized by Liu & Rao (2021: 135)]
- Holotype: YBU 14252, adult ♀, collected in July 2014.
- Type locality: “Mengzi, Yunnan Province, China, at an elevation of 1 900 m above sea level”.
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Pope, C.H. 1928. Four new snakes and a new lizard from South China. American Museum Novitates 325: 1–4. hdl: 2246/3716
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.
- 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
[edit]- Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., Reyes, F., Kudera, J. & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Pareas niger. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 6 October 2021.