New district record for the Assam Snail Eater Snake, Pareas monticola (Cantor 1839), from Dhalai, Tripura, India

comprises 30 currently rec- ognized species, five of which occur in India (Uetz et al. 2023).The Assam Snaileater, also known as the Common Slugsnake, Pareas monticola (Cantor 1839), was described from the Naga Hills of Assam in the present-day state of Nagaland and the Burmese Naga self-administered zone.The distribution of the species includes India, Nepal, Bhutan, China, Vietnam, and Myanmar (Uetz et al. 2023).In India, records are from Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Sikkim, and Darjeeling (Ahmed et al. 2009; Uetz et al. 2023), and from a single locality in the Jampui Hills in the North Tripura District of Tripura (Vogel et al. 2021).We herein provide the first documentation of the species from Dhalai District, Tripura, India.At 2116 h on 5 August 2023, we encountered a Pareas monticola (~500 mm total length) (Fig. 1) outside the bound-New District Record for the Assam Snaileater, Pareas monticola (Cantor 1839), from Dhalai, Tripura, India