Pareas is a genus of Asian snakes in the family Pareidae. Members of the genus are dietary specialists mainly or exclusively feeding on snails (limaxivory), hence their common name, slug snakes. All species in the genus Pareas are harmless to humans.

Species

Pareas contains the following species:

• Pareas abros

• Pareas andersonii – Anderson's slug snake

• Pareas atayal – Atayal slug-eating snake

• Pareas baiseensis

• Pareas berdmorei – Mengla snail-eating snake

• Pareas boulengeri – Boulenger's slug snake

• Pareas capitulatus - narrow-headed snail-eating snake

• Pareas carinatus – keeled slug snake

• Pareas chinensis – Chinese slug snake

• Pareas dulongjiangensis – Dulongjiang slug‐eating snake

• Pareas formosensis – Formosa slug snake, Taiwan slug snake

• Pareas guanyinshanensis – Guanyinshan slug-eating snake

• Pareas hamptoni – Hampton's slug snake

• Pareas iwasakii

• Pareas kaduri

• Pareas komaii – Formosa slug snake

• Pareas kuznetsovorum

• Pareas macularius – mountain slug snake

• Pareas margaritophorus – mountain slug snake

• Pareas modestus

• Pareas monticola – common slug snake

• Pareas niger – black snail-eating snake, Mengzi snail-eating snake

• Pareas nigriceps – Xiaoheishan slug-eater snake

• Pareas nuchalis

• Pareas stanleyi – Stanley's slug snake

• Pareas temporalis

• Pareas tigerinus – tiger slug‐eating snake

• Pareas victorianus – Victoria slug snake

• Pareas vindumi – Vindum's slug eater

• Pareas xuelinensis

• Pareas yunnanensis – Yunnan slug snake

• Pareas melanops

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Pareas.

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