Pareas macularius Theobald, 1868
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Pareas macularius Theobald, 1868 View in CoL
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: JJLR 01649 ; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: BFAD93DA-CC3D-5688-9D52-74B1FFB933D4; Taxon: scientificNameID: Pareas macularius ; scientificName: Pareas macularius ; class: Reptilia; order: Squamata; family: Colubridae ; genus: Pareas ; specificEpithet: macularius ; scientificNameAuthorship: Theobald, 1868; Location: country: Vietnam; countryCode: VN; stateProvince: Thanh Hoa; county: Thanh Hoa; municipality: Ba Thuoc; locality: Near Thanh Son Commune ; verbatimElevation: 668 m; verbatimLatitude: 20°29'7.37"N; verbatimLongitude: 105°6'42.21"E; verbatimCoordinateSystem: WGS 84; Event: eventDate: June; eventTime: 2023; eventRemarks: collected by V. Q. Dau and T. N. Thao; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: Reptilia; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen GoogleMaps
Description
Morphological characters of the specimen from Thanh Hoa Province agreed well with the descriptions of Smith (1943) and Hauser (2017): SVL 385.0 mm, TaL 65.0 mm (n = 1). Body strongly compressed; head distinct from neck; nasal single; loreal 1 / 1; preocular 1 / 1; postocular 1 / 1; subocular 1, long and slender; anterior temporals 2 / 2; posterior temporals 3 / 3; supralabials 7 / 7, third to fifth below the eye, seventh very long; infralabials 7 / 7; mental groove absent; dorsal scale rows 15–15 – 15, with 11 median rows of keeled at mid-body keeled; ventrals 152; cloacal undivided; subcaudals 40, divided.
Colouration in preservative. Dorsal surface of head, body and tail grey-brown dorsally, with transverse bars on the back composed of black spots and small white dots; rudimentary brown on nuchal collar present; ventral light brown with many dark blotches (Figs 4 View Figure 4 , 5 View Figure 5 ).
Distribution
In Vietnam, this species has been reported from Bac Kan, Cao Bang, Vinh Phuc, Hai Duong, Hoa Binh, Lai Chau, Nghe An and Quang Binh Provinces ( Uetz et al. 2024). Elsewhere, the species has been reported from India, Myanmar, Thailand and China ( Uetz et al. 2024).
Type locality: “ Tenasserim ” [= Tanintharyi Div., S Myanmar] ( Uetz et al. 2024).
Ecology
The specimen was found at 20: 00 h on the ground. The surrounding habitat was karst forest composed of small hardwoods, liane and shrub.
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