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- Title
A revised taxonomy of Asian snail-eating snakes Pareas (Squamata, Pareidae): evidence from morphological comparison and molecular phylogeny.
- Authors
Ping Wang; Jing Che; Qin Liu; Ke Li; Jie Qiong Jin; Ke Jiang; Lei Shi; Peng Guo
- Abstract
The Asian snail-eating snakes Pareas is the largest genus of the family Pareidae (formerly Pareatidae), and widely distributed in Southeast Asia. However, potential diversity remains poorly explored due to their highly conserved morphology and incomplete samples. Here, on basis of more extensive sampling, interspecific phylogenetic relationships of the genus Pareas were reconstructed using two mitochondrial fragments (cyt b and ND4) and two nuclear genes (c-mos and Rag1), and multivariate morphometrics conducted for external morphological data. Both Bayesian Inference and Maximum Likelihood analyses consistently showed that the genus Pareas was comprised of two distinct, monophyletic lineages with moderate to low support values. Based on evidences from molecular phylogeny and morphological data, cryptic diversity of this genus was uncovered and two new species were described. In additional, the validity of P. macularius is confirmed.
- Subjects
SOUTHEAST Asia; ASIA; MOLECULAR phylogeny; SQUAMATA; SNAKES; TAXONOMY; CHLOROPLAST DNA; EVIDENCE; MORPHOMETRICS
- Publication
ZooKeys, 2020, Issue 939, p45
- ISSN
1313-2989
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3897/zookeys.939.49309