Pareas

Familia: Pareidae
Subfamilia: Pareinae
Genus: Pareas
Species (30): P. abros – P. andersonii – P. atayal – P. baiseensis – P. berdmorei – P. boulengeri – P. carinatus – P. chinensis – P. dulongjiangensis – P. formosensis – P. geminatus – P. hamptoni – P. iwasakii – P. kaduri – P. komaii – P. kuznetsovorum – P. macularius – P. margaritophorus – P. modestus – P. monticola – P. niger – P. nigriceps – P. nuchalis – P. stanleyi – P. temporalis – P. tigerinus – P. victorianus – P. vindumi – P. xuelinensis – P. yunnanensis

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).

• 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. 

• Guo, K. & Deng, X. 2009. A new species of Pareas (Serpentes: Colubridae: Pareatinae) from the Gaoligong Mountains, southwestern China. Zootaxa 2008)1): 53–60. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2008.1.5 Reference page. 
• Guo, Y-H., Wang, G-L. & Rao, D-Q. 2020. Scale microornamentation of five species of Pareas (Serpentes, Pareidae) from China. Zootaxa 4742(3): 565–572. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4742.3.10 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. 
• 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. 
• Ding, L., Chen, Z.-N., Suwannapoom, C., Nguyen, T.V., Poyarkov, N.A. & Vogel, G. 2020. A new species of the Pareas hamptoni complex (Squamata: Serpentes: Pareidae) from the Golden Triangle. Taprobanica 9(2): 174–193. DOI: 10.47605/tapro.v9i2.230 Reference page. 
• Vogel, G., Nguyen, T.V., Lalremsanga, H.T., Biakzuala, L., Hrima, V. & Poyarkov, N.A. 2020. Taxonomic reassessment of the Pareas margaritophorus-macularius species complex (Squamata, Pareidae). Vertebrate Zoology 70(4): 547–569. DOI: 10.26049/VZ70-4-2020-02 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. 
• Le, D.T.T., Tran, T.G., Hoang, H.D. & Stuart, B.L. 2021. A new species of Pareas (Squamata, Pareidae) from southern Vietnam. Vertebrate Zoology 71: 439–451. DOI: 10.3897/vz.71.e70438 Reference page. 
• Vogel, G., Nguyen, T.V., Zaw, T. & Poyarkov, N.A. 2021. A new species of the Pareas monticola complex (Squamata: Serpentes: Pareidae) from Chin Mountains with additions to the Pareas fauna of Myanmar. Journal of Natural History 54(39–40): 2577–2612. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2020.1856953 Reference page. 
• Poyarkov, N.A., Nguyen, T.V., Pawangkhanant, P., Yushchenko, P.V., Brakels, P., Nguyen, L.H., Nguyen, H.N., Suwannapoom, C., Orlov, N.L. & Vogel, G. 2022. An integrative taxonomic revision of slug-eating snakes (Squamata: Pareidae: Pareineae) reveals unprecedented diversity in Indochina. PeerJ 10: e12713. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.12713 Reference page. 
• Gong, Y.-A., Wu, J.-X., Huang, S., Xu, Y.-H., Yang, D.-C., Liu, Y.-J., Liang, S.-M. & Lee, P.-S. 2023. A New Species of Pareas (Squamata, Pareidae) from Guangxi Province, China. Animals 13: 2233. DOI: 10.3390/ani13132233 Reference page. 
• Liu, S., Zhang, D.-R., Poyarkov, N.A., Hou, M., Wu, L., Rao, D.-Q., Nguyen, T.V. & Vogel, G. 2023. Resurrection of Pareas yunnanensis (Vogt, 1922) with description of a new species of Pareas from Yunnan Province, China (Squamata, Pareidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 860(1): 1–26. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.860.2045 Reference page. 
• Liu, S., Yang, M.-J., Rao, J.-Q., Guo, Y.-H. & Rao, D.-Q. 2023. A New Species of Pareas Wagler, 1830 (Squamata, Pareidae) from Northwestern Yunnan, China. Taxonomy 3(2): 169–182. DOI: 10.3390/taxonomy3020013 Reference page. 

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Pareas . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 29 October 2023.

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