Pareas victorianus VOGEL, NGUYEN & POYARKOV, 2021
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Pareas victorianus
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| Higher Taxa | Pareidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Victoria slug snake Burmese: Natmataung khayusar mwe |
| Synonym | Pareas victorianus VOGEL, NGUYEN & POYARKOV in VOGEL et al. 2021 Pareas monticola – WOGAN et al. 2008: 87 (in part) Pareas (Eberhardtia) victorianus — POYARKOV et al. 2022 |
| Distribution | W Myanmar (Chin State) Type locality: montane tropical forest between Kanpetlet town and Nat Ma Taung Mt., in Nat Ma Taung NP, Chin Hills, Mindat District, Chin State, western Myanmar (21.207556°N, 94.020056°E; at an elevation of 2280 m asl). |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype. CAS 235254, adult male collected on 21 May 2006, by A.K. Shein and L. Shein. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Pareas victorianus sp. nov. differs from all other members of the genus Pareas by the combination of the following morphological characters: a slender yellow-brown medium-sized snake (total length 487 mm); frontal scale subhexagonal with the lateral sides converging posteriorly; anterior pair of chin shields longer than broad; loreal contacting the eye; prefrontal contacting the eye; preocular and presubocular absent; temporals 2 + 3; slightly enlarged median vertebral row; 7 supralabials; 6 or 7 infralabial scales; 7 scale rows slightly keeled at midbody; 164 ventrals without lateral keels; 58 subcaudals, all divided; about 64 slightly billowing vertical dark bars on the trunk; 2 slight thin black postorbital stripes starting from lower and upper edges of postorbital scales; lower postorbital stripe reaching the anterior part of seventh supralabial, not continuing to the lower jaw and chin; the left and right upper postorbital stripes merge forming a black nuchal collar. |
| Comment | Only limited data provided as authors did not respond to request for details. |
| Etymology | The specific epithet ‘victorianus’ is a Latin adjective in nominative singular (masculine gender), and is given in reference to the type locality of this species, which was collected near the Nat Ma Taung Mt. (historically known as Mt. Victoria), the highest peak of the Chin Hills Ridge (elevation 3070 m asl). |
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