Pareas

Pareas is a genus of Asian snakes in the family Pareidae. All species in the genus Pareas are harmless to humans.

Species
Pareas contains the following species: Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Pareas.
 * Pareas abros Poyarkov, Nguyen, Pawangkhanant, Yushchenko, Brakels, Nguyen, Nguyen, Suwannapoom, Orlov, & Vogel, 2022
 * Pareas andersonii (Boulenger, 1888) – Anderson's slug snake
 * Pareas atayal You, Poyarkov & Lin, 2015 – Atayal slug-eating snake
 * Pareas berdmorei Theobald, 1868 – Mengla snail-eating snake
 * Pareas boulengeri (Angel, 1920) – Boulenger's slug snake
 * Pareas carinatus (H. Boie, 1828) – keeled slug snake
 * Pareas chinensis (Barbour, 1912) – Chinese slug snake
 * Pareas dulongjiangensis Liu, Yang, Rao, Guo, & Rao. 2023 – Dulongjiang slug‐eating snake
 * Pareas formosensis (Van Denburgh, 1909) – Formosa slug snake, Taiwan slug snake
 * Pareas geminatus Ding, Chen, Suwannapoom, T.V. Nguyen, Poyarkov & G. Vogel, 2020 – twin slug snake
 * Pareas hamptoni (Boulenger, 1905) – Hampton's slug snake
 * Pareas iwasakii (Maki, 1937)
 * Pareas kaduri Bhosale, Phansalkar, Sawant, Gowande, Patel & Mirza, 2020
 * Pareas komaii (Maki, 1931) – Formosa slug snake
 * Pareas kuznetsovorum Poyarkov, Nguyen, Pawangkhanant, Yushchenko, Brakels, Nguyen, Nguyen, Suwannapoom, Orlov, & Vogel, 2022
 * Pareas macularius Theobald, 1868 – mountain slug snake
 * Pareas margaritophorus (Jan, 1866) – mountain slug snake
 * Pareas menglaensis Wang et al., 2020 – Mengla snail-eating snake
 * Pareas modestus (Theobald, 1868)
 * Pareas monticola (Cantor, 1839) – common slug snake
 * Pareas niger Pope, 1928 – black snail-eating snake, Mengzi snail-eating snake
 * Pareas nigriceps Guo & Deng, 2009 – Xiaoheishan slug-eater snake
 * Pareas nuchalis (Boulenger, 1900)
 * Pareas stanleyi (Boulenger, 1914) – Stanley's slug snake
 * Pareas temporalis Le, Tran, Hoang, & Stuart, 2021
 * Pareas tigerinus Liu, Zhang, Poyarkov, Hou, Wu, Rao, Nguyen & Vogel, 2023 – tiger slug‐eating snake
 * Pareas victorianus G. Vogel, T.V. Nguyen, Zaw & Poyarkov, 2020 – Victoria slug snake
 * Pareas vindumi G. Vogel, 2015 – Vindum's slug eater
 * Pareas xuelinensis Liu & Rao, 2021
 * Pareas yunnanensis Vogt, 1922 – Yunnan slug snake