Pareas dulongjiangensis LIU, YANG, RAO, GUO & RAO, 2023
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Pareas dulongjiangensis
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| Higher Taxa | Pareidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Dulongjiang Slug‐eating Snake” Chinese: 独龙江钝头蛇 (dú lóng jiāng dùn tóu shé) |
| Synonym | Pareas (Eberhardtia) dulongjiangensis LIU, YANG, RAO, GUO & RAO 2023: 173 |
| Distribution | China (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 | |
| Types | Holotype. KIZ R201607, adult female, collected on 9 September 2015 by Dingqi Rao |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: 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) |
| Comment | |
| Etymology | The specific epithet dulongjiangensis refers to the Dulongjiang Township, where the new species was discovered. |
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