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Pareas dulongjiangensis LIU, YANG, RAO, GUO & RAO, 2023

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Higher TaxaPareidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Dulongjiang Slug‐eating Snake”
Chinese: 独龙江钝头蛇 (dú lóng jiāng dùn tóu shé) 
SynonymPareas (Eberhardtia) dulongjiangensis LIU, YANG, RAO, GUO & RAO 2023: 173 
DistributionChina (Yunnan)

Type locality: Kongdang Village, Dulongjiang Township, Gongshan County, Nujiang Prefecture; Yunnan Province, China (27°50′16′′ N, 98°19′30′′ E; 1460 m elevation).  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype. KIZ R201607, adult female, collected on 9 September 2015 by Dingqi Rao 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Preocular absent; postocular fused with subocular; loreal bordering orbit; prefrontal bordering orbit; infralabials not fused with chin‐shield; chin‐shields three pairs, first pair triangular, second pair and third pair elongate; dorsal scales 15 rows throughout without apical pits; three rows vertebral scales enlarged; five rows mid‐dorsal scales keeled at middle of body; supralabials6–7; infralabials7–9; precloacal plate undivided; ventral scales182; and subcaudals 76, paired. In preservative, dorsal surface of head chocolate brown, from which two brownish‐black longitudinal stripes run on each side of the neck, leaving a pale central portion; lateral surface of head dense with brownish black dusting and two short brownish‐black streaks, one on lower anterior temporal and another on last supralabial; almost no mottling on ventral surface of head; sparse brown mottling on ventral surfaces of body and tail; and indistinct vertical dark bars on trunk and tail. (Liu et al. 2023)


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Comment 
EtymologyThe specific epithet dulongjiangensis refers to the Dulongjiang Township, where the new species was discovered. 
References
  • Liu S, Yang M, Rao J, Guo Y, Rao D. 2023. A New Species of Pareas Wagler, 1830 (Squamata, Pareidae) from Northwestern Yunnan, China. Taxonomy 3(2):169-182 - get paper here
 
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