Pareas carinatus (Wagler, 1830)

Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore’s herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, Zootaxa 5287 (1), pp. 1-378 : 278

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:78E23714-8973-4755-BC94-0A751D7D2B37
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7968317
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/88502B73-FE8F-B963-FF6B-420F7D0508C0
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Pareas carinatus (Wagler, 1830)
status

Treatment

Pareas carinatus (Wagler, 1830) — Erroneous.

Keeled Slug Snake

Singapore records.

No published records.

Remarks. A specimen of P. carinatus (ZMH R11553) has the locality Singapore, but lacks any other pertinent data. Pareas carinatus covers a broad distribution from southern Myanmar east to southern China, south to northern Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, and Bali, Java, Lombok, and Sumatra in Indonesia. As the southern extent of P. carinatus range is northern Peninsular Malaysia (Wallach et al. 2014)., then there is no chance that it is native to Singapore. Instead, the specimen was likely imported or shipped through Singapore by wildlife traders.

LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. No specimens.

Additional Singapore museum specimens. Singapore (no locality): ZMH.

Family Pythonidae Fitzinger, 1826 (2 species)

Genus Python Daudin, 1803 (2 species)