Pareas boulengeri (ANGEL, 1920)

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Higher Taxa	Pareidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Boulenger's Slug Snake Chinese: 平鳞钝头蛇
Synonym	Amblycephalus Boulengeri ANGEL 1920: 113 Amblycephalus monticola boulengeri — MELL 1931 [1929] Pareas boulengeri HU, ZHAO & LIU 1973 Pareas boulengeri — GUO et al. 2006 Pareas boulengeri — WALLACH et al. 2014: 535 Pareas boulengeri — VOGEL 2015 Pareas (Eberhardtia) boulengeri — POYARKOV et al. 2022
Distribution	China (Gansu, Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, Hunan, Henan, Jiangxi, Fujian, Yunnan) Type locality: "Région de Koeï Tchéou, Chine." [=Guizhou region, southeastern China, ca. 27˚N, 107˚E].
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Syntypes: MNHN-RA 1912.0349, a 470 mm specimen, MNHN-RA 1912.0350, a 182 mm specimen, and MNHN-RA 1912.0351, a 460 mm specimen (Révérend Père Cavalerie)
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: “OEil séparé des labiales par des sous-oculaires; écailles dorsales parfaitement lisses; une simple plaque (loréale) entre la nasale et l'ail; préfrontales touchant l'œil; contact des deux premières labiales inférieures derrière la symphyse; ventrales 175-189; sous-caudales 65-69; anale non divisée.” (Angel 1920)
Comment	Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018).
Etymology	Named after George Albert Boulenger (1858-1937), herpetologist at the British Museum of Natural History, London.
References	Angel,M.F. 1920. Liste de reptiles récémment déterminés et entrés dans les collections et description d’une nouvelle espèce du genre Amblycephalus. Bull. Mus. nation. Hist. nat., Paris 1920: 112-114 - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Chen, Xiao-hong; Zhu, Ming-wei; Hou, Ming-gen; Qu, Wen-yuan. 2006. A new record of Colubridae family, Pareas boulengeri, in Henan Province. Sichuan Journal of Zoology 25(2):269. [In Chinese] - get paper here GUO Ke-ji, DENG Xue-jian 2006. A new record of Colubridae family, Pareas boulengeri, in Hunan Province. Sichuan Journal of Zoology 25 (2): 270 - get paper here Guo, Keji & Deng, Xuejiang 2009. A new species of Pareas (Serpentes: Colubridae: Pareatinae) from the Gaoligong Mountains, southwestern China. Zootaxa 2008: 53-60 - get paper here Harrington, Sean M; Jordyn M de Haan, Lindsey Shapiro, Sara Ruane 2018. Habits and characteristics of arboreal snakes worldwide: arboreality constrains body size but does not affect lineage diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125 (1): 61–71 - get paper here Mell,R. 1931. List of Chinese snakes. Lingnan Sci. Jour., Canton, 8 [1929]: 199-219. Poyarkov NA, Nguyen TV, Pawangkhanant P, Yushchenko PV, Brakels P, Nguyen LH, Nguyen HN, Suwannapoom C, Orlov N, Vogel G. 2022. An integrative taxonomic revision of slug-eating snakes (Squamata: Pareidae: Pareineae) reveals unprecedented diversity in Indochina. PeerJ 10: e12713 - get paper here Song-Mingtao 1987. Survey of the reptiles of southern Shaanxi. Acta Herpetologica Sinica 6 (1): 59-64 - get paper here Vogel, G. 2015. A New Montane Species of the Genus Pareas Wagler, 1830 (Squamata: Pareatidae) from Northern Myanmar. Taprobanica 7 (1): 1-7 - get paper here Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp. Wang K, Lyu ZT, Wang J, Qi S, Che J 2022. Updated Checklist and Zoogeographic Division of the Reptilian Fauna of Yunnan Province, China. Biodiversity Science 30 (4): 21326, 1–31 - get paper here Wang, C. G. M. Z. X., Jia, S. Y. K. T. L., & Hu, C. Z. J. 2022. An updated species checklist of amphibians and reptiles in Fujian Province, China. Biodiversity Science, 22090 - get paper here Wang, Kai; Jinlong Ren, Hongman Chen, Zhitong Lyu, Xianguang Guo Ke Jiang, Jinmin Chen, Jiatang Li, Peng Guo, Yingyong Wang, Jing Che 2020. The updated checklists of amphibians and reptiles of China. Biodiversity Science 28 (2): 189-218 - get paper here Zhao, E.M. 2006. The snakes of China [in Chinese]. Hefei, China, Anhui Sience & Technology Publ. House, Vol. I, 372 pp., Vol. II (color plates), 280 pp.
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/511703571054246/ Google images

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