Anilios
Anilios is a genus of snakes in the family Typhlopidae.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Typhlopidae |
| Genus: | Anilios Gray, 1845 |
| Type species | |
| Anilios australis[1][2] Gray, 1845 | |
Geographic range
Species of the genus Anilios are found predominantly in Australia, with a few species located in New Guinea.
Species
The following 48 species are recognized as being valid.[3]
- Anilios affinis (Boulenger, 1889)
- Anilios ammodytes (Montague, 1914)
- Anilios aspina (Couper, Covacevich & S. Wilson, 1998)
- Anilios australis Gray, 1845
- Anilios batillus (Waite, 1894)
- Anilios bicolor (W. Peters, 1858)
- Anilios bituberculatus (W. Peters, 1863)
- Anilios broomi (Boulenger, 1898)
- Anilios centralis (Storr, 1984)
- Anilios chamodracaena (Ingram & Covacevich, 1993)
- Anilios diversus (Waite, 1894)
- Anilios endoterus (Waite, 1918)
- Anilios erycinus (F. Werner, 1901)
- Anilios fossor Shea, 2015
- Anilios ganei (Aplin, 1998)
- Anilios grypus (Waite, 1918)
- Anilios guentheri (W. Peters, 1865)
- Anilios hamatus (Storr, 1981)
- Anilios howi (Storr, 1983)
- Anilios insperatus Venchi, S. Wilson & Borsboom, 2015
- Anilios kimberleyensis (Storr, 1981)
- Anilios leptosoma (Robb, 1972)
- Anilios leucoproctus (Boulenger, 1889)
- Anilios ligatus (W. Peters, 1879)
- Anilios longissimus (Aplin, 1998)
- Anilios margaretae (Storr, 1981)
- Anilios micromma (Storr, 1981)
- Anilios minimus (Kinghorn, 1929)
- Anilios nema (Shea & Horner, 1997)
- Anilios nigrescens Gray, 1845
- Anilios obtusifrons Ellis & Doughty, 2017
- Anilios pilbarensis (Aplin & Donnellan, 1993)
- Anilios pinguis (Waite, 1897)
- Anilios proximus (Waite, 1893)
- Anilios robertsi (Couper, Covacevich & S. Wilson, 1998)
- Anilios silvia (Ingram & Covacevich, 1993)
- Anilios splendidus (Aplin, 1998)
- Anilios systenos Ellis & Doughty, 2017
- Anilios torresianus (Boulenger, 1889)
- Anilios tovelli (Loveridge, 1945)
- Anilios troglodytes (Storr, 1981)
- Anilios unguirostris (W. Peters, 1867)
- Anilios vagurima Ellis, 2019
- Anilios waitii (Boulenger, 1895)
- Anilios wiedii (W. Peters, 1867)
- Anilios yampiensis (Storr, 1981)
- Anilios yirrikalae (Kinghorn, 1942)
- Anilios zonula Ellis, 2016
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Anilios.
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References
- Stejneger, Leonhard (1904). "Herpetology of Porto Rico". Report of the United States National Museum. 1902: 683.
- Savage, Jay M.; Boundy, Jeff (2012). "On the Type Species of the Snake Generic Name Anilios Gray, 1845 (Serpentes: Typhlopidae)" (PDF). Herpetological Review. 43 (4): 537–538. hdl:10088/29946.
- Genus Anilios at The Reptile Database
Further reading
- Gray JE (1845). Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). xxviii + 289 pp. (Anilios, new genus, p. 135).
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