Pareas
Encyclopedia
Pareas is a genus
of snake
s in the Colubridae family. They are all harmless to humans.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of snake
Snake
Snakes are elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales...
s in the Colubridae family. They are all harmless to humans.
Species
It contains the following species:- Pareas boulengeri (Angel, 1920)
- Pareas carinatus (H. BoieHeinrich BoieHeinrich Boie was a German zoologist. He was the brother of Friedrich Boie. In the field of herpetology they described 49 new species of reptiles and several new species of amphibians....
, 1828) - Pareas formosensis (Van DenburghJohn Van DenburghJohn Van Denburgh was a U.S. herpetologist from California.He was born in San Francisco and enrolled at Stanford University in 1891. As of 1895, he organized the herpetology department of the California Academy of Sciences. In 1897 he got a Ph.D. from Stanford University. Additionally, he got an M.D...
, 1909) - Pareas hamptoni (BoulengerGeorge Albert BoulengerGeorge Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:...
, 1905) - Pareas iwasakii (Maki, 1937) - Iwasaki's snail-eaterIwasaki's Snail-eaterIwasaki's Snail-eater, Pareas iwasakii, is a species of snake in the Colubridae family. It is endemic to Japan.-Ecology:Pareas iwasakii is a snail eating specialist. It has asymmetric jaws, which facilitates feeding on snails with dextral shells...
- Pareas maculariusPareas maculariusThe Spotted Slug Snake is a species of snake found in India , Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Northwest Malaysia and South China . It is a small, harmless species that is rather common and feeds on small invertebrates.-References:* Jan, Giorgio. 1866. in: Bocourt, F...
TheobaldWilliam TheobaldWilliam Theobald was a malacologist and naturalist on the staff of the Geological Survey of India in Burma. That organization then covered Burma, as it was at the time still a part of British India....
, 1868 - spotted slug snake = Pareas margaritophorus (JanGiorgio JanGiorgio Jan was an Italian taxonomist, zoologist, botanist, herpetologist, and writer. He is also known as Georg Jan or Georges Jan....
, 1866) - photo - Pareas monticolaPareas monticolaThe Common Slug Snake is a species of snake found in India and parts of China . It is common.-References:...
(CantorTheodore Edward CantorTheodore Edward Cantor was a Danish physician, zoologist and botanist.Cantor worked for the British East India Company. He made natural history collections in Penang and Malacca...
, 1839) - common slug snake - Pareas nigriceps Guo & Deng, 2009
- Pareas nuchalis BoulengerGeorge Albert BoulengerGeorge Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:...
, 1900 - Pareas stanleyi (BoulengerGeorge Albert BoulengerGeorge Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:...
, 1914)