Anilius
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Infraorder: | Alethinophidia |
| Clade: | Amerophidia |
| Family: | Aniliidae Stejneger, 1907 |
| Genus: | Anilius Oken, 1816 |
| Species: | A. scytale
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| Anilius scytale | |
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The Aniliidae are a
reptiles. Two subspecies are recognized, including the nominate subspecies described here.[4]
Description
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This species is found in the
amphisbaenids or worm lizards (legless lizards), small fossorial snakes, fish (particularly swamp eels), and frogs.[6] It forages for food on the ground, and sometimes in the water, at night.[7] It has a cylindrical body of uniform diameter and a very short tail; it is brightly banded in red and black and its reduced eyes lie beneath large head scales. It is considered to be the snake that most resembles the original and ancestral snake condition, such as a lizard-like skull.[8]
Geographic range
It is found in the tropics of northern
type locality given is "Indiis".[1]
Subspecies
| Subspecies[4] | Taxon author[4] | Common name | Geographic range |
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| A. s. phelpsorum | Roze, 1958 | ||
| A. s. scytale | (Linnaeus, 1758) |
Taxonomy
Modern classifications restrict the family to the
Cylindrophiidae. Anilius is not closely related to Asian pipesnakes. Instead, its closest relatives appear to be the neotropical Tropidophiidae.[9][10]
References
- ^ ISBN 1-893777-01-4(volume).
- ^ a b "Aniliidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 14 August 2007.
- ^ "Anilius". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 14 August 2007.
- ^ a b c d "Anilius scytale". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 14 August 2007.
- ISSN 0074-0276.
- – via reptilesofecuador.com.
- ISSN 1984-4670.
- ^ Evolution – snake
- PMID 23627680.
- PMID 24315866. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2015-12-02. Retrieved 2018-05-14.
Further reading
- Boos HEA. 2001. The Snakes of Trinidad and Tobago. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 1-58544-116-3.
- Martins M, Oliveira ME. 1999. Natural history of snakes in forests of the Manaus region, Central Amazonia, Brazil. Herpetological Natural History 6: 78-150. PDF Archived 2013-10-09 at the Wayback Machine.
External links
Data related to Anilius at Wikispecies
Media related to Anilius scytale at Wikimedia Commons- Aniliidae at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 3 November 2008.
