Pareas stanleyi (BOULENGER, 1914)

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Higher Taxa	Pareidae, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Stanley's Slug Snake Chinese: 福建钝头蛇
Synonym	Amblycephalus stanleyi BOULENGER 1914: 484 Amblycephalus sinensis STANLEY 1917 Amblycephalus (formosensis) stanleyi — MELL 1931 [1929] Pareas stanleyi — HU et al. 1980 Pareas stanleyi — GUO et al. 2012 (GenBank JN230705) Pareas stanleyi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 537 Pareas (Eberhardtia) stanleyi — POYARKOV et al. 2022
Distribution	China (Fujian, Zhejiang, Guizhou, Sichuan) Type locality: “N.W. Fokien, China”
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.20.4
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Comment	Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018).
Etymology	named after Dr. Arthur Stanley, Curator of the Shanghai Museum, who “presented” the specimen to the British Museum.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Boulenger, GEORGE A. 1914. Descriptions of new species of snakes in the collection of the British Museum. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 14 (84): 482-485. - 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 Guo, Peng and Ermi Zhao 2004. Pareas stanleyi - A record new to Sichuan, China and a Key to the Chinese Species. Asiatic Herpetological Research 10: 280-281 - 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 Li D 1989. A survey of reptiles in Leigongshan area. In: Matsui, M., Hikida, T. & Goris, R.C. [Eds]. Current Herpetology in East Asia. Proceedings of the Second Japan-China Herpetological Symposium Kyoto, July 1988. Herpetological Society of Japan, Kyoto, Japan: i-ix, 1-521 [269-275] 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 Stanley, ARTHUR 1917. Two new species of Chinese snakes. Jour. North-China Branch Royal Asiatic Soc., Shanghai, 47 [1916]: 83-84 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, 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 Google images

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