Pareas

Pareas
Pareas carinatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Pareidae
Genus:	Pareas Wagler, 1830 [1]
Species
29 recognized species, see article.

Pareas is a genus of Asian snakes in the family Pareidae. Members of the genus are dietary specialists mainly or exclusively feeding on snails (limaxivory), hence their common name, slug snakes. All species in the genus Pareas are harmless to humans.

Species

Pareas contains the following species: ^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}

• Pareas abros Poyarkov, Nguyen, Pawangkhanant, Yushchenko, Brakels, Nguyen, Nguyen, Suwannapoom, Orlov, & Vogel, 2022
• Pareas andersonii Boulenger, 1888 – Anderson's slug snake
• Pareas atayal You, Poyarkov & Lin, 2015 – Atayal slug-eating snake
• Pareas baiseensis Wu, Gong, Huang, & Xu, 2023
• Pareas berdmorei Theobald, 1868 – Mengla snail-eating snake
• Pareas boulengeri (Angel, 1920) – Boulenger's slug snake
• Pareas capitulatus Stuart et al. 2025 - narrow-headed snail-eating snake
• Pareas carinatus (H. Boie, 1828) – keeled slug snake
• Pareas chinensis (Barbour, 1912) – Chinese slug snake
• Pareas dulongjiangensis Liu, Yang, Rao, Guo, & Rao. 2023 – Dulongjiang slug‐eating snake
• Pareas formosensis (Van Denburgh, 1909) – Formosa slug snake, Taiwan slug snake
• Pareas guanyinshanensis Liu, Yang, Rao, Guo, & Rao, 2023 – Guanyinshan slug-eating snake
• Pareas hamptoni (Boulenger, 1905) – Hampton's slug snake
• Pareas iwasakii (Maki, 1937)
• Pareas kaduri Bhosale, Phansalkar, Sawant, Gowande, Patel & Mirza, 2020 ^[5]
• Pareas komaii (Maki, 1931) – Formosa slug snake
• Pareas kuznetsovorum Poyarkov, Nguyen, Pawangkhanant, Yushchenko, Brakels, Nguyen, Nguyen, Suwannapoom, Orlov, & Vogel, 2022
• Pareas macularius Theobald, 1868 – mountain slug snake
• Pareas margaritophorus (Jan, 1866) – mountain slug snake
• Pareas modestus (Theobald, 1868)
• Pareas monticola (Cantor, 1839) – common slug snake
• Pareas niger (Pope, 1928) – black snail-eating snake, Mengzi snail-eating snake
• Pareas nigriceps Guo & Deng, 2009 – Xiaoheishan slug-eater snake
• Pareas nuchalis (Boulenger, 1900)
• Pareas stanleyi (Boulenger, 1914) – Stanley's slug snake
• Pareas temporalis Le, Tran, Hoang, & Stuart, 2021
• Pareas tigerinus Liu, Zhang, Poyarkov, Hou, Wu, Rao, Nguyen & Vogel, 2023 – tiger slug‐eating snake
• Pareas victorianus G. Vogel, T.V. Nguyen, Zaw & Poyarkov, 2020 – Victoria slug snake
• Pareas vindumi G. Vogel, 2015 – Vindum's slug eater
• Pareas xuelinensis Liu & Rao, 2021 ^[7]
• Pareas yunnanensis Vogt, 1922 – Yunnan slug snake

Nota bene : A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Pareas.

References

1. Wagler J (1830). Natürliches System der AMPHIBIEN, mit vorangehender Classification der SÄUGTHIERE und VÖGEL. Ein Beitrag zur vergleichenden Zoologie. Munich, Stuttgart and Tübingen: J.G. Cotta. vi + 354 pp. + one plate. (Pareas, new genus, p. 181). (in German and Latin).
2. Pareas at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database . Accessed 12 May 2013.
3. "Pareas ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de
4. Wang, Ping; Che, Jing; Liu, Qin; Li, Ke; Jin, Jie Qiong; Jiang, Ke; Shi, Lei; Guo, Peng (2020-09-06). "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 . ISSN   1313-2970. PMC   7297803 . PMID   32577082. (Pareas menglaensis, new species).
5. Bhosale, Harshal; Phansalkar, Pushkar; Sawant, Mandar; Gowande, Gaurang; Patel, Harshil; Mirza, Zeeshan A. (2020-12-17). "A new species of snail-eating snakes of the genus Pareas Wagler, 1830 (Reptilia: Serpentes) from eastern Himalayas, India" (PDF). European Journal of Taxonomy (729): 54–73–54–73. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2020.729.1191 . ISSN   2118-9773. (Pareas kaduri, new species).
6. Stuart, Bryan L.; Seateun, Sengvilay; Sivongxay, Niane; Souvannavong, Siliphone; Phimmachak, Somphouthone (2025-03-29). "A new species in the Pareas hamptoni group (Squamata, Pareidae) from southeastern Laos" (PDF). Zoological Research: Diversity and Conservation. doi:10.24272/j.issn.2097-3772.2024.028. ISSN   2097-3772.
7. Liu, Shuo; Rao, Dingqi (2021-01-21). "A new species of the genus Pareas (Squamata, Pareidae) from Yunnan, China". ZooKeys (1011): 121–138. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1011.59029 . ISSN   1313-2970. PMC   7843430 . PMID   33564273. (Pareas xuelinensis, new species).