Pareas berdmorei

Pareas berdmorei

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Familia: Pareidae
Subfamilia: Pareinae
Genus: Pareas
Species: Pareas berdmorei

Name

Pareas berdmorei Theobald, 1868: 63

• Lectotype: ZSI 8022, adult ♂, collected by T.M. Berdmore. [designated by POyarkov et al. (2022: 47)]
• Type locality: “Tenasserim”, Mon Region in southeastern Myanmar.
• Paralectotype: ZSI 8021, adult ♂, same data as the lectotype.

Synonyms

• Pareas menglaensis Wang, Che, Liu, Li, Jin, Jiang, Shi & Guo, 2020: 53 [synonymised by Poyarkov et al. (2022: 27)]
  • Holotype: YBU 14124, adult ♀, collected in June 2014.
  • Type locality: “Mengla County, Yunnan Province, China, at an elevation of 700 m above sea level”.

References

Primary references

• Theobald, W. Jr. 1868. Catalogue of Reptiles in the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Journal of the Asiatic Society, Supplement, 88 pp. BHL 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. 
• 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. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Pareas berdmorei. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 21 April 2022.

Vernacular names

English: Berdmore’s Slug-eating Snake