Common Slug Snake
Pareas monticola
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Reptiles
The common slug snake, Assam snail eater, Assam snail-eater snake, or montane slug-eating snake is a species of snake found in Northeast India, eastern Nepal, Bhutan, China, Myanmar, and Vietnam. Its type locality is "Naga Hills, Asám" (=Assam), India. It is also reported from north-eastern and south-eastern Bangladesh. The species was first described by Theodore Cantor in 1839.
Classification
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Pareidae
- Genus
- Pareas