Pareas niger (POPE, 1928)

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Higher Taxa	Pareidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Black Snail-eating Snake, Mengzi Snail-eating Snake Chinese: 昆明钝头蛇 (Mengzi Dun-tou-she)
Synonym	Amblycephalus niger POPE 1928: 4 Pareas mengziensis WANG, CHE, LIU, KI, JIN, JIANG, SHI & GUO 2020 Pareas (Eberhardtia) niger — POYARKOV et al. 2022
Distribution	China (Yunnan) Type locality: Yunnanfu,Yunnan Province, China mengziensis: China (Yunnan); Type locality: Mengzi, Yunnan Province, China, at an elevation of 1 900 m elevation
Reproduction
Types	Holotype: AMNH 22703, female Holotype. YBU 14252, adult female, collected in July 2014. Paratypes. Two adult females (YBU 141251 and YBU 15100) and three adult males (YBU 14253, YBU 14288, and YBU 15114) from the same locality and adjacent regions collected in July 2014 and July 2015 [mengziensis]
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: “An Amblycephalus with a black tail and a large amount of black on the dorsum. The loreal is excluded from the eye, and at midbody 7 rows of scales are keeled” (Pope 1928: 4). Additional details (1568 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Synonymy: Liu and Rao 2021 removed Amblycephalus niger POPE 1928: 4 from the synonymy of P. komaii and synonymized it with P. mengziensis, hence niger takes priority over P. mengziensis which becomes a synonym. NCBI taxonID: 3027167 [mengziensis]
Etymology	Named after Latin niger, nigra, nigrum = black. Pareas mengziensis was named after the type locality Mengzi City, Yunnan Province, China.
References	Liu, S.; Mo, M.; Li, M.; Li, B.; Luo, X.; Rao, D.; Li, S. 2024. Description of a New Species of the Pareas hamptoni Complex from Yunnan, China, with Confirmation of P. hamptoni Sensu Stricto in China (Squamata, Pareidae). Animals 2024, 14, 421 - get paper here Pope,C.H. 1928. Four new snakes and a new lizard from South China. American Museum Novitates 325: 1-4 - get paper here 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 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 P, Che J, Liu Q, Li K, Jin JQ, Jiang K, Shi L, Guo P 2020. A revised taxonomy of Asian snail-eating snakes Pareas (Squamata, Pareidae): evidence from morphological comparison and molecular phylogeny. ZooKeys 939: 45-64 - get paper here
External links	National Center for Biotechnology Information http://zoobank.org/EC677F21-D01B-4C53-998F-D77C7457081B Google images

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