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Mengla Snail-eating Snake, Pareas berdmorei

Reptilia · Squamata

Pareas berdmoreiTheobald, 1868

Mengla Snail-eating Snake

Photograph by James Hunt, CC BY, via iNaturalist

A meat-eating lizard from the Oriental region, reaching 770 mm nose to tail.

Once published as Pareas menglaensis — those names reach this page.

ReptiliaSquamataPareidaePareas

We do not have enough on this species yet

Catalogue of Life records this animal’s name, its family and where it sits in the tree of life. Beyond that, only 17 facts are on record — no diet, no lifespan, nothing we would be willing to publish as an entry.

So this page waits here rather than pretending to be one. It is not listed and not submitted to search engines. If you know this animal and can point us at a published source, we would rather have it right than have it soon.

Grows to
770mm
greatest recorded
Eats
Carnivorous
Weighs up to
70.88g
greatest
Body length across Pareidae

Longer than 88% of all species in Pareidae anyone has measured.

88% of 40 species are smaller12% larger
145 mmthe whole family, smallest to largest880 mm

The bar is the rank itself: its length is the share of the family this animal exceeds. The chart below is the family’s real spread, on a logarithmic scale because body length here runs from 145 to 880 mm. The solid rule is this animal. Every bar is a count of real species, and nothing on this figure is estimated.

What is known

17 sourced facts, each taken from a named scientific dataset. How to read these.

Cited from a dataset unless a row is marked otherwise.

Standing in the world

Still living
Extant

The animal itself

Limbs
None

Size

Length snout to vent · greatest recorded
595mm23.5 in

Wang et al. 2020, Poyarkov et al. 2022 (total length: 421–770, mean 554.9 mm, as Pareas berdmorei, n = 38; SVL: 353-595, mean 442 mm, 21 females; SVL: 366-595, mean 443 mm; female Total length: 459-770, mean 557 mm), lectotype female 436 mm SVL, tail 121 mm (David and Deuti 2022)

Length nose to tail · greatest recorded
770mm2 ft 6 in

snakes only in this source

Female length · mean, nose to tail
557mm22 in
Body mass · greatestcomputed
70.88g2.5 oz

computed from length by a family-level allometric equation, not weighed

How it lives

Dietcomputed
Carnivorous

no actual data but can be imputed as carnivorous like all snakes

Region
Oriental
Mainland or island
Mainland
Elevation · above sea level
40–530m

41-526 (Poyarkov et al. 2022)

Naming and history

Suborder
Serpentes
Infraorder
Alethinophidia
Subspecies
Pareas berdmorei berdmorei THEOBALD 1868 Pareas berdmorei truongsonicus POYARKOV et al. 2022 Pareas berdmorei unicolor (BOURRET 1934)
Described by
Theobald
Moved to another genus · since it was first described
No
Described in
1868
Type locality
China

What nobody knows

These are not gaps in our research. No scientific dataset records them for this species — and saying so is information you cannot get from a reference that simply leaves a field out.

  • Length snout to vent · adult female mean
  • Length snout to vent · adult male mean
  • Length snout to vent · adult mean
  • Length nose to tail · adult male mean
  • Length nose to tail · adult mean
  • Largest female · snout to vent
  • Largest male · snout to vent
  • Largest female · shell length
  • Largest male · shell length
  • Hatchling length · snout to vent
  • Hatchling length · nose to tail
  • Largest juvenile · snout to vent
  • Largest juvenile · shell length
  • Egg length
  • Egg width
  • Body mass · a typical adult
  • Body mass · adult female, mean
  • Body mass at hatching
  • Longest recorded life
  • Preferred body temperature · chosen in a laboratory gradient
  • Body temperature when active · measured in the wild
  • Eats arthropods
  • Eats vertebrates
  • Eats plant matter
  • How it hunts
  • Active
  • Where it lives
  • Reproduction
  • How the young develop
  • Gestation or incubation
  • Average clutch
  • Smallest clutch recorded
  • Largest clutch recorded
  • Mean clutch · smallest reported
  • Mean clutch · largest reported
  • Clutches in a year
  • Clutches a year · fewest
  • Clutches a year · most
  • First breeds from · youngest recorded
  • First breeds by · oldest recorded
  • Hatchling length · smallest recorded
  • Hatchling length · largest recorded
  • Age at first breeding · female
  • Mature from · youngest recorded
  • Mature by · oldest recorded
  • Size at maturity · smallest recorded
  • Size at maturity · largest recorded
  • Venomous
  • Fangs
  • Body temp in the wild · lowest mean recorded
  • Body temp in the wild · highest mean recorded
  • Colour on the back
  • Pattern on the back
  • Pupil
  • Sex decided by
  • Conservation status
  • Status assessed · the year the Red List last looked
  • Population trend
  • Red List criteria
  • Biome
  • Active season · shortest recorded
  • Active season · longest recorded
  • Density · lowest recorded
  • Density · highest recorded
  • Home range · largest recorded
  • Habitat
  • Active in
  • Range size

Others in Pareidae

Sources

  1. Meiri, S. (2024). SquamBase — a database of squamate (Reptilia: Squamata) traits. Global Ecology and Biogeography. Public domain (CC0).
  2. Catalogue of Life (dataset 3LR), used under CC BY.
  3. Oskyrko, O. et al. (2024). ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles. Scientific Data. Used under CC BY 4.0.