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<treatment id="9F83DF2E290B578E8887FBFB69E7B58E" ID-GBIF-Taxon="164500579" LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:EC677F21-D01B-4C53-998F-D77C7457081B" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/9F83DF2E290B578E8887FBFB69E7B58E" lastPageNumber="45" pageId="0" pageNumber="45" scope_class="Squamata" scope_family="Pareidae">
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<taxonomicName id="032342706FBDD2420DB39D0593453CBA" ID-CoL="8LYQ3" LSID="9F83DF2E-290B-578E-8887-FBFB69E7B58E" authority="Wang & Che & Liu & Li & Jin & Jiang & Shi & Guo, 2020" authorityName="Wang & Che & Liu & Li & Jin & Jiang & Shi & Guo" authorityYear="2020" class="Squamata" family="Pareidae" genus="Pareas" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pareas mengziensis" order="Squamata" pageId="0" pageNumber="45" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="mengziensis" status="sp. nov.">Pareas mengziensis</taxonomicName>
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<figureCitation id="E4AADB60BC9C7A444726649CB1755BDF" captionStart="Figure 5" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figure 5. Holotype of Pareas mengziensis sp. nov. (YBU 14252). Dorsal (A) and ventral (B) of general views; dorsal (C), ventral (D), and lateral (E) views of the head." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.939.49309.figure5" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/419709" pageId="0" pageNumber="45">Figure 5</figureCitation>
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<paragraph id="2C7DB7C6C52C2EDBADF24C3CC6977274" pageId="0" pageNumber="45">Holotype.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="B40507754D08E6E8EBA1AFFD9D7EFF73" pageId="0" pageNumber="45">YBU 14252, adult female, collected from Mengzi, Yunnan Province, China, at an elevation of 1 900 m above sea level in July 2014.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="9508E32EBBD6F8DBCC22030E8FD85DE6" pageId="0" pageNumber="45">Paratypes.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="09D4B9CBC168C3E8CC63F69DD4E1706E" pageId="0" pageNumber="45">Two adult females (YBU 141251 and YBU 15100) and three adult males (YBU 14253, YBU 14288, and YBU 15114) from the same locality and adjacent regions collected in July 2014 and July 2015.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="E5570160F9A2A534A8B32EF04C9E037B" pageId="0" pageNumber="45" type="diagnosis">
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<paragraph id="6560107F70F4700D82C7FAF3B32FC76A" pageId="0" pageNumber="45">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="6EED86FEE431B811069DF3DFE906B141" pageId="0" pageNumber="45">(1) solid black marking on back of head extending along whole dorsal of body; (2) single preocular; (3) postocular fused with subocular; (4) loreal not bordering orbit; (5) temporals 2+3+3; (6) prefrontal bordering orbit; (7) three rows of mid dorsal scales slightly enlarged; (8) 3-7 rows of mid dorsal scales keeled; (9) 6-7 supralabials; (10) 8-9 infralabials; (11) 6-7 maxillary teeth; (12) cloaca undivided; (13) ventral scales 167-173; (14) subcaudals 54-61, paired.</paragraph>
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Holotype of
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<emphasis id="8B1DC1807EC398D64A79EA213AAA5B3A" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="45">Pareas mengziensis</emphasis>
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sp. nov. (YBU 14252). Dorsal (
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) and ventral (
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), and lateral (
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) views of the head.
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<paragraph id="6620DEEB5BC8FE888D9EA7EC7AED0DE6" pageId="0" pageNumber="45">Description of holotype.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="60023D6CB5D605E774BB90B2295FEF5E" pageId="0" pageNumber="45">Female, SVL 426 mm, TL 98 mm, TL/total length 0.187; body elongated; head distinct from neck. Internasals sub-triangular, wider than long; prefrontals sub-rectangular, wider than long, bordering orbits; frontal shield-shaped; one relatively small supraocular; parietals irregular, longer than wide; rostral almost invisible from above, wider than deep; nasals undivided; single loreal, separating from eyes; single preocular; single thin elongated subocular; postocular fused with subocular, supraocular sub-triangular; temporals 2+3+3; seven supralabials, separating from eyes; 8-9 infralabials, anterior-most in contact with opposite between mental and anterior chin-shields, first four in contact with anterior chin-shields; three chin-shields pairs, anterior pairs larger than other two; ventral scales 170; cloaca undivided; subcaudals 54, paired; dorsal scales in 15 rows throughout, three median rows enlarged, 3-7 rows of mid dorsal scales keeled; 6-7 maxillary teeth.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="1AEDF8A982CC77984DBD320FF5C5A22F" pageId="0" pageNumber="45">Solid black marking on back of head extending along whole dorsal of body and tail; sides of head light brownish yellow, speckled with small, irregular, dark brown spots; two black spots on each side of head, anterior one on intersection of anterior two temporals and 6th and 7th supralabials, posterior one on middle of 7th supralabial; vertical brownish yellow stripe on neck, eight scales long and 1-2 scales wide; body brownish yellow with numerous irregular black cross-bands on lateral of body, contacting with solid black dorsal of body, some extending to edges of ventral scales; belly light brown with sparse dark brown spots; tail purely black except for first 20 pairs of subcaudals light brown.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="2507A1F19198D9164DF8FE2CBC45148D" pageId="0" pageNumber="45">Description of paratypes.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="4433D5FD49AFB953E0466C2FAE67E2A5" pageId="0" pageNumber="45">The paratypes agree in most respects with the description of the holotype. A comparison of the most important morphological characters is summarized in Suppl. material 3: Appendix S3.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="213372B91A3CDC87EB485D89BEEFB27A" pageId="0" pageNumber="45" type="etymology">
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<paragraph id="5C66ECADACD0032C2CE63088FF6EF353" pageId="0" pageNumber="45">Etymology.</paragraph>
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The new species is named after the type locality Mengzi City, Yunnan Province, China. We suggest the common name "Mengzi Snail-eating Snake" in English and "Mengzi Dun-tou-she (
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in Chinese.
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<paragraph id="3D3B4877D5CDAE97130F101C3888A4CA" pageId="0" pageNumber="45">Distribution.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="0C31563B94099D9E3120762B04FE440F" pageId="0" pageNumber="45">This species is currently known only from the type locality Mengzi City, Yunnan, China, in deciduous broad-leaved forest with a subtropical monsoon climate. It is expected to be located in the surrounding plateau regions.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="34A237DDC9C90F251E54AB01524F6C6D" pageId="0" pageNumber="45">Comparison.</paragraph>
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sp. nov. can be distinguished from
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sp. nov. by having one thin elongated subocular (vs. two or three suboculars). It is most similar to
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<taxonomicName id="57272FDE04CF600FD405BD18694B216E" lsidName="P. yunnanensis" pageId="0" pageNumber="45" rank="species" species="yunnanensis">
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<emphasis id="16208E496F34BC5BC2839F0DB9379BF8" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="45">P. yunnanensis</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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Mell, 1931,
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<taxonomicName id="92ADF840B4886DBC3CA0C2053FA14304" lsidName="P. niger" pageId="0" pageNumber="45" rank="species" species="niger">
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<emphasis id="A2D51CA98A349A4C7DA4A5E10480AFAA" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="45">P. niger</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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Pope, 1928, and
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<taxonomicName id="A78A3D1CE75161E1687B5B68718D39F5" lsidName="P. nigriceps" pageId="0" pageNumber="45" rank="species" species="nigriceps">
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<emphasis id="4267A74055FD7DFBE07A4105B078C8FE" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="45">P. nigriceps</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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in terms of color pattern, but differs from these species by eight or nine infralabials (vs. seven) and three rows of mid dorsal scales enlarged (vs. not enlarged or only one enlarged mid dorsal scale). It differs from the remaining species of
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<taxonomicName id="3815415E8FDC1FAB00349346806AF381" class="Squamata" family="Pareidae" genus="Pareas" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pareas" pageId="0" pageNumber="45" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
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<emphasis id="114391125EF884356EC0A63903744446" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="45">Pareas</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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by having a large solid black area on back of head and body.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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</treatment>
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