Pareas komaii (MAKI, 1931)
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Higher Taxa | Pareidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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Common Names | E: Formosa Slug Snake Chinese: 阿里山钝头蛇 |
Synonym | Amblycephalus komaii MAKI 1931: 149 Amblycephalus kuangtungensis VOGT 1922: 141 Amblycephalus monticola niger — MELL 1931 [1929] Pareas komaii — NAKAMURA & UÉNO 1971 Pareas komaii — YOU et al. 2015 Pareas (Eberhardtia) komaii — POYARKOV et al. 2022 Pareas yunnanensis — WANG et al. 2022 |
Distribution | Taiwan Type locality: Arisan (= Alishan, Jiayi, south-western Taiwan). niger (synonym): China (Yunnan); Type locality: Yunnanfu (= Kunming Shi), Yunnan Prov., China. |
Reproduction | oviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022) |
Types | Holotype: NSMT H00529 |
Diagnosis | Diagnosis: P. komaii can be easily distinguished from P. formosensis by its yellow iris and strongly keeled dorsals. (You et al. 2015) |
Comment | Synonymy Amblycephalus komaii MAKI 1931 had been considered as a synonym of P. formosensis (e.g. by WALLACH et al. 2014: 535) until its revalidation by YOU et al. 2015. 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. |
Etymology | Named after its distribution in Taiwan (= Formosa). |
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