Pareas Wagler 1830

Pareas is a genus of Asian snakes in the family Pareidae. All species in the genus Pareas are harmless to humans.

Species

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

• Pareas abros Poyarkov, Nguyen, Pawangkhanant, Yushchenko, Brakels, Nguyen, Nguyen, Suwannapoom, Orlov, & Vogel, 2022
• Pareas andersoniil (Boulenger, 1888) – Anderson's slug snake
• Pareas atayal You, Poyarkov & Lin, 2015 – Atayal slug-eating snake
• Pareas berdmorei Theobald, 1868 – Mengla snail-eating snake
• Pareas boulengeri (Angel, 1920) – Boulenger's slug 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 geminatus Ding, Chen, Suwannapoom, T.V. Nguyen, Poyarkov & G. Vogel, 2020 – twin slug 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 menglaensis Wang et al., 2020 – Mengla snail-eating snake^[4]
• 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^[6]
• 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.

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