Pareas carinatus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Pareidae
- Genus
- Pareas
- Species
- Pareas carinatus
- Scientific Name
- Pareas carinatus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Pareas carinatus
The keeled slug-eating snake (Pareas carinatus) is a species of snake in the family Pareidae. It is relatively widespread in Southeast Asia, from southern China (Yunnan) to Burma and Indochina to the Malay Archipelago (Borneo, Java, Lombok, Sumatra, Bali). Two subspecies are recognized: P. c. carinatus and P. c. unicolor, the latter being confined to Cambodia.
Keeled slug-eating snakes live in or near forests. They are nocturnal and mostly arboreal, and as the common name suggests, they feed exclusively on snails and slugs. They are oviparous.
While the species is negatively affected by forest destruction, IUCN considers these effects to be localized and not threatening the species.
...Pareas carinatus in languages:
- Chinese
- 棱鱗鈍頭蛇
- Danish
- Kølet Sneglesnog
- English
- Keeled Slug Snake
- German
- Gekielte Schneckennatter
- Indonesian
- Ular Siput
- Portuguese
- Papa-lesmas-de-quilha
- Russian
- Моллюскоед Буа
- Thai
- งูกินทากเกล็ดสัน
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Pareas abros
- Pareas andersonii
- Pareas atayal
- Pareas berdmorei
- Pareas boulengeri
- Pareas carinatus
- Pareas chinensis
- Pareas formosensis
- Pareas geminatus
- Pareas hamptoni
- Pareas iwasakii
- Pareas kaduri
- Pareas komaii
- Pareas kuznetsovorum
- Pareas margaritophorus
- Pareas modestus
- Pareas monticola
- Pareas niger
- Pareas nigriceps
- Pareas nuchalis
- Pareas stanleyi
- Pareas temporalis
- Pareas victorianus
- Pareas vindumi
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