Pareas komaii

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 komaii

Name

Pareas komaii (Maki, 1931)

• Holotype: NSMT H00529, adult ♂, collected by M. Maki in August 1923.
• Type locality: “Arisan [=Mt. Alishan]”, Jiayi, south-western Taiwan.
• Paratype: NSMT H00530, adult ♀, same data as holotype.

Combinations

• Amblycephalus komaii Maki, 1931: 149 [original combination]
• Pareas komaii — Nakamura & Ueno, 1963 [subsequent combination]

Native distribution areas

• Taiwan.

References

Primary references

• Maki, M. 1931. A Monograph of the Snakes of Japan. Dai-ichi Shobo: Tokyo. 240 pp. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Ota, H., Lin, J.-T., Hirata, T. & Chen, S.-L. 1997. Systematic Review of Colubrid Snakes of the Genus Pareas in the East Asian Islands. Journal of Herpetology 31(1): 79–87. DOI: 10.2307/1565332 Reference page. 
• You, C.-W., Poyarkov Jr., N.A. & Lin, S.-M. 2015. Diversity of the snail-eating snakes Pareas (Serpentes, Pareatidae) from Taiwan. Zoologica Scripta 44(4): 349–361. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12111 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Pareas komaii. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 27 September 2019.

Vernacular names

English: Komai's Slug Snake
中文（简体）: 阿里山钝头蛇
中文（臺灣）: 駒井氏鈍頭蛇