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Anilios (Australian Blind Snakes)

(Reptilia: Serpentes: Typhlopidae)

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Anilios in general

Hedges, S.B.; Marion, A.B.; Lipp, K.M.; Marin, J.; Vidal, N. 2014. A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata). Caribbean Herpetology 49: 1-61.

Hoser, R.T. 2013. The description of new snake subgenera, species and subspecies from Australia (Squamata: Serpentes). Australasian Journal of Herpetology 16: 39-52.

Marin, J.; Donnellan, S.C.; Hedges, S.B.; Doughty, P.; Hutchinson, M.N.; Cruaud, C.; Vidal, N. 2013. Tracing the history and biogeography of the Australian blindsnake radiation. Journal of Biogeography 40(5): 928-937.

Rabosky, D.L.; Aplin, K.P.; Donnellan, S.C.; Hedges, S.B. 2004. Molecular phylogeny of Blindsnakes (Ramphotyphlops) from western Australia and resurrection of Ramphotyphlops bicolor (Peters, 1857). Australian Journal of Zoology 52(5): 531-548.

Wallach, V. 2006. The nomenclatural status of Australian Ramphotyphlops (Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society 42(1): 8-24.

Anilios affinis

Boulenger, G.A. 1914. Descriptions of new species of snakes in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (London) 14: 482-485.

Wallach, V. 2003. Scolecophidia miscellanea. Hamadryad 27(2): 222-240.

Anilios aspinus

Couper, P.J.; Covacevich, J.A.; Wilson, S.K. 1998. Two new species of Ramphotyphlops (Squamata: Typhlopidae) from Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 42(2): 459-464.

Vanderduys, E.P. 2013. Additional information on Ramphotyphlops aspina Couper, Covacevich & Wilson 1998 (Reptilia: Typhlopidae), a poorly known blind snake from the Mitchell Grass Downs of Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 56(2): 615-619.

Anilios australis

Maryan, B. 1988. Notes on reproduction in captive Ramphotyphlops australis (Gray). Herpetofauna (Sydney) 18(2): 1-2.

Rabosky, D.L.; Aplin, K.P.; Donnellan, S.C.; Hedges, S.B. 2004. Molecular phylogeny of Blindsnakes (Ramphotyphlops) from western Australia and resurrection of Ramphotyphlops bicolor (Peters, 1857). Australian Journal of Zoology 52(5): 531-548.

Storr, G.M.; Harold, G. 1980. Additions to the herpetofauna of the Shark Bay Region, Western Australia. Western Australian Naturalist 14(8): 240.

Anilios batillus

Shea, G. 1999. Waite's blind snakes (Squamata: Scolecophidia: Typhlopidae): identification of sources and correction of errors. Records of the Australian Museum 51(1): 43-56.

Anilios bicolor

Rabosky, D.L.; Aplin, K.P.; Donnellan, S.C.; Hedges, S.B. 2004. Molecular phylogeny of Blindsnakes (Ramphotyphlops) from western Australia and resurrection of Ramphotyphlops bicolor (Peters, 1857). Australian Journal of Zoology 52(5): 531-548.

Anilios bituberculatus

Michael, D.R.; Crane, M.; Holliday, S.; Lindenmayer, D.B.; MacGregor, C.; McBurney, L.; Montague-Drake, R. 2009. A range extension for the prong-snouted Blindsnake Ramphotyphlops bituberculatus (Typhlopidae) in the South-western slopes of NSW. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 39(2): 113-114.

Read, J.L.; Badman, F.J. 1990. Reptile densities in chenopod shrubland at Olympic Dam, South Australia. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 20(1): 3-8.

Anilios broomi

Shea, G. 1995. The effect of an inadequate key: Ramphotyphlops broomi (Squamata: Typhlopidae) does not occur in New South Wales. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 25(1): 15-18.

Anilios centralis

Storr, G.M. 1984. A new Rhamphotyphlops [Ramphotyphlops] (Serpentes: Typhlopidae) from central Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 11(3): 313-314.

Anilios chamodracaena

Ingram, G.J.; Covacevich, J.A. 1993. Two new species of striped blindsnakes. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 34(1): 181-184.

Anilios diversus

Tanner, V.M. 1952. Pacific islands herpetology. 6. Tahiti and Marquesas Islands, New Guinea and Australia. Great Basin Naturalist 12: 1-12.

Anilios endoterus

Kinghorn, J.R. 1932. Herpetological Notes. Records of the Australian Museum 18: 355-363.

Sternfeld, R. 1919. Neue Schlangen und Echsen aus Zentralaustralien. Frank-furt. a. M. Mitt. Sanckenb, Ges. 1: 76-83.

Anilios fossor

Shea, G.M. 2015. A new species of Anilios (Scolecophidia: Typhlopidae) from Central Australia. Zootaxa 4033(1): 103-116.

Anilios ganei

Aplin, K.P. 1998. Three new blindsnakes (Squamata: Typhlopidae) from northwestern Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 19(1): 1-12.

Anilios hamatus

Aplin, K.P.; Donnellan, S.C. 1993. A new species of blindsnake, genus Ramphotyphlops (Typhlopidae, Squamata), from northwestern Western Australia, with a redescription of R. hamatus, Storr 1981. Records of the Western Australian Museum 16(2): 243-256.

Anilios howi

Storr, G.M. 1983. A new Ramphotyphlops (Serpentes: Typhlopidae) from Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 10(4): 315-317.

Anilios insperatus

Venchi, A.; Wilson, S.K.; Borsboom, A.C. 2015. A new blind snake (Serpentes: Typhlopidae) from an endangered habitat in south-eastern Queensland, Australia. Zootaxa 3990(2): 272–278.

Anilios kimberleyensis

Ellis, R.J.; Doody, S.; Swan, M. 2015. Natural history notes: Anilios kimberleyensis (Kimberely Blindsnake). Defensive behavior. Herpetological Review 46(3): 442-443.

Anilios leptosomus

Ellis, R.J.; Doughty, P.; Donnellan, S.C.; Marin, J.; Vidal, N. 2017. Worms in the sand: Systematic revision of the Australian blindsnake Anilios leptosoma (Robb, 1972) species complex (Squamata: Scolecophidia: Typhlopidae) from the Geraldton Sandplain, with description of two new species. Zootaxa 4323(1): 1–24.

Laurent, R.F. 1956. Notes herpétologiques africaines. Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaine (Bruxelles) 53(3-4): 229-256.

Robb, J. 1972. A new species of the genus Ramphotyphlops (Serpentes: Typhlopidae) from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 55(2): 39-40.

Anilios ligatus

McNab, A.; Sanders, M.; Vanderduys, E.P. 2014. New records of blind snakes resembling the Robust Blind Snake Anilios ligatus (Peters 1879), on Cape York Peninsula. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 59: 8.

Shea, G. 1998. New data on typhlopid type specimens from Queensland in the collection of the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 42(2): 532.

Anilios longissimus

Aplin, K.P. 1998. Three new blindsnakes (Squamata: Typhlopidae) from northwestern Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 19(1): 1-12.

Anilios margaretae

Gaikhorst, G.; Lambert, C. 2015. Range extension and micro-habitat use of Buff-snouted Blindsnake (Anilios margaretae) with notes on its conservation status. Western Australian Naturalist 30(2): 126-129.

Anilios minimus

Kinghorn, J.R. 1929. Two new snakes from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 17: 190-193.

Anilios nema

Shea, G.; Horner, P. 1996. A new species of Ramphotyphlops (Squamata: Typhlopidae) from the Darwin area, with notes on two similar species from northern Australia. Beagle 13: 53-60.

Anilios nigrescens

Greenlees, M.J.; Webb, J.K.; Shine, R. 2005. Led by the blind: bandy-bandy snakes Vermicella annulata (Elapidae) follow Blindsnake chemical trails. Copeia 2005(1): 184-187.

Hawkeswood, T.J. 2007. Ramphotyphlops nigrescens (Reptilia: Typhlopidae) existing in a cow paddock in north-western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Calodema Supplementary Paper 12: 1-2.

Hawkeswood, T.J. 2008. A record of Ramphotyphlops nigrescens (Gray, 1845) (Reptilia: Typhlopidae) inhabiting the bark of a standing dead tree of Eucalyptus gummifera (Sol. ex A. Gaertn.) Hochr. (Myrtaceae) in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia. Calodema Supplementary Paper 89: 1-2.

Kinghorn, J.R. 1942. Herpetological notes. 4. Records of the Australian Museum 21(2): 118-121.

Mathieson, M.; Johnson, R.; Hobson, R. 1999. Additional vertebrate fauna records for Lake Broadwater Conservation Park. Queensland Naturalist 37(1-3): 12-17.

Miller, J.D.; McDonald, K.R. 1977. A note on eggs and hatchlings of the blind snake Typhlina nigrescens Gray. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 94(4): 161-164.

Scanlon, J.D.; Davidson, C.L. 1999. Spring breeding aggregation of the blindsnake Ramphotyphlops nigrescens (Typhlopidae). Herpetofauna (Sydney) 29(1): 57-58.

Schulz, M.; Eyre, T.J. 1997. Observations on some reptiles from Minnie Water, north-eastern New South Wales. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 27(1): 41-42.

Shea, G.M. 2001. Spermatogenic cycle, sperm storage, and Sertoli cell size in a scolecophidian (Ramphotyphlops nigrescens) from Australia. Journal of Herpetology 35(1): 85-91.

Anilios nigroterminatus

Gillam, M.W.; Cawood, I.S.; Honner, G.J. 1978. New reptile records from central Australia Northern Territory. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 9(2): 18-25.

Parker, H.W. 1931. A new species of blind snake from N.W. Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Ser. 10) 8: 604-605.

Anilios obtusifrons

Anilios pilbarensis

Anilios pinguis

Algaba, D. 2005. A record of a Blind Snake, Ramphotyphlops pinguis on the Swan Coastal Plain, Perth, Western Australia. Western Australian Naturalist 25(1): 58-59.

Anilios proximus

Brown, G.W.; Cherry, K.A.; Nelson, J.L.; Grgat, L.M. 2003. A survey of the terrestrial vertebrate fauna of the Menindee Lakes, western New South Wales. Australian Zoologist 32(3): 381-400.

Swan, G.; Wilson, S. 2009. How specialised is the diet of the bandy-bandy, Vermicella annulata? Herpetofauna (Sydney) 39(2): 103-106.

Anilios robertsi

Couper, P.J.; Covacevich, J.A.; Wilson, S.K. 1998. Two new species of Ramphotyphlops (Squamata: Typhlopidae) from Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 42(2): 459-464.

Anilios silvia

Ingram, G.J.; Covacevich, J.A. 1993. Two new species of striped blindsnakes. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 34(1): 181-184.

Anilios splendidus

Aplin, K.P. 1998. Three new blindsnakes (Squamata: Typhlopidae) from northwestern Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 19(1): 1-12.

Anilios systenos

Anilios tovelli

Gillam, M.W. 1979. Notes on the status of the 'blind' snake Typhlina tovelli (Loveridge). Herpetofauna (Sydney) 11(1): 2-5.

Loveridge, A. 1945. A new blind snake (Typhlops tovelli) from Darwin, Australia. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 58: 111-112.

Anilios unguirostris

Peters, W.C.H. 1867. Über Flederthiere (Pteropus gouldii, Rhinolophus deckenii, Vespertilio lobipes, Vesperugo temminckii) und Amphibien (Hypsilurus godeffroyi, Lygosoma scutatum, Stenostoma narisostre, Onychocephalus unguirostris, Ahaetulla poylepis,..... Monatsberichte der Königlich Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1867(November): 703-712.

Shea, G. 1998. New data on typhlopid type specimens from Queensland in the collection of the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 42(2): 532.

Anilios wiedii

Shea, G. 1998. New data on typhlopid type specimens from Queensland in the collection of the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 42(2): 532.

Anilios yirrikalae

Kinghorn, J.R. 1942. Herpetological notes. 4. Records of the Australian Museum 21(2): 118-121.

Anilios zonula

Ellis, R.J. 2016. A new species of blindsnake (Scolecophidia: Typhlopidae: Anilios) from the Kimberley Region of Western Australia. Herpetologica 72(3): 271-278.