Anilios

Anilios
Anilios bituberculatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Typhlopidae
Genus:	Anilios Gray, 1845
Type species
Anilios australis[1][2] Gray, 1845

Anilios is a genus of snakes in the family Typhlopidae, first described in 1845 by John Edward Gray.^[3][4]

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.^[5]

• 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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