v10i1.246

Submitted date: 17 November 2020
Accepted date: 3 May 2021
Published date: 27 May 2021
Pp. 39–46, pl. 9.

FIRST RECORD OF Pareas vindumi VOGEL, 2015 (REPTILIA: PAREIDAE) FROM CHINA WITH A REVISION TO MORPHOLOGY

Jian-Huan Yang*, Ho Yuen Yeung, Xiang-Yuan Huang & Shen-Pin Yang
*Corresponding author. E-mail: jhyang@kfbg.org

Abstract
We report the first record of the poorly known slug-eating snake, Pareas vindumi from China: a female specimen collected from Dazhuba ranger station, Gaoligongshan National Nature Reserve, Tengchong city, Yunnan Province. The newly collected specimen represents only the second known specimen of the species and provides the first and valuable data on its morphological variation. Based on the new specimen, we revise the diagnostic characteristics of the species and provide additional data on its natural history and conservation status.

Key words : molecular taxonomy, morphological variation, new record, Pareinae, slug-eating snake

Section Editor: Gernot Vogel