Pareas
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Pareas is a genus
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. Boie
    Heinrich Boie
    Heinrich 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 Denburgh
    John Van Denburgh
    John 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 (Boulenger
    George Albert Boulenger
    George 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-eater
    Iwasaki's Snail-eater
    Iwasaki'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 macularius
    Pareas macularius
    The 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...

    Theobald
    William Theobald
    William 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 (Jan
    Giorgio Jan
    Giorgio Jan was an Italian taxonomist, zoologist, botanist, herpetologist, and writer. He is also known as Georg Jan or Georges Jan....

    , 1866) - photo
  • Pareas monticola
    Pareas monticola
    The Common Slug Snake is a species of snake found in India and parts of China . It is common.-References:...

    (Cantor
    Theodore Edward Cantor
    Theodore 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 Boulenger
    George Albert Boulenger
    George Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:...

    , 1900
  • Pareas stanleyi (Boulenger
    George Albert Boulenger
    George Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:...

    , 1914)
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