Anilios silvia (INGRAM & COVACEVICH, 1993)

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Higher Taxa	Typhlopidae (Asiatyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Great Sandy Blind Snake, Sylvia's Blind Snake
Synonym	Ramphotyphlops silvia INGRAM & COVACEVICH 1993 Ramphotyphlops silvia — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 73 Ramphotyphlops silvia — COGGER 2000: 769 Austrotyphlops silvia — WALLACH 2006 Ramphotyphlops silvia — WILSON & SWAN 2010: 420 Ramphotyphlops silvia — MARIN et al. 2013 Anilios silvia — HEDGES et al. 2014 Ramphotyphlops silvia — COGGER 2014: 810 Anilios silvia — WALLACH et al. 2014: 41 Anilios silvia — TIATRAGUL et la. 2023
Distribution	Australia (Queensland) Type locality: "Seary's Scrub, Cooloola NP (25°58'S, 153°0TE), SEQ" [Queensland, Australia].
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: QM J27387. Paratypes: (n=9) J31579 Fraser Is., NP HQ; J3 1576-7 Fraser Is. NP, HQ on ‘A’ rd; J35872 Tuan SF, Firetower 6; J27386 Seary’s Scrub, Cooloola NP; J43785 Cooloola NP; J23620 Cooloola, on Freshwater rd, 5km from junction; J46128 Pomona, 25km N, on rd to Rainbow Beach; J8521 Nambour. All localities in SE Queensland.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: A small (maximum total length 175), striped or black-and-white Ramphotyphlops with 20 midbody scale rows. The nasal cleft extends up from the nostril, to about the level of the eye and nearly divides the nasal. (Ingram & Covacevich 1993) Additional details (1113 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Type species: Ramphotyphlops sylvia Ingram & Covacevich 1993 is the type species of the subgenus Silvatyphlops Hoser 2013: 48 (subgenus of Libertadictus Wells & Wellington 1984), both synonyms of Anilios (fide SHEA 2015).
Etymology	Named after Hannah Sylvia Ingram, the mother of one of the senior author and Rhea Sylvia, mother of Romulus and Remus.
References	Cogger, H. G. 2014. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 7th ed. CSIRO Publishing, xxx + 1033 pp. - get paper here Cogger, H.G. 2000. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 6th ed. Ralph Curtis Publishing, Sanibel Island, 808 pp. 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 - get paper here Ingram G J; Covacevich J A 1993. Two new species of striped blindsnakes. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 34 (1): 181-184 - get paper here Marin, J., Donnellan, S.C., Hedges, S.B., Puillandre, N., Aplin, K., Doughty, P., Hutchinson, M.N., Couloux, A. & Vidal, N. 2013. Hidden species diversity of Australian burrowing snakes (Ramphotyphlops). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, doi: 10.1111/bij.12132 - get paper here McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp. Tiatragul, S., Skeels, A., & Keogh, J. S. 2023. Paleoenvironmental models for Australia and the impact of aridification on blindsnake diversification. Journal of Biogeography, 50, 1899–1913 - get paper here Wallach, V. 2006. The nomenclatural status of Australian Ramphotyphlops (Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Bull. Maryland Herp. Soc. 42 (1): 8-24 - get paper here Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.amonline.net.au/herpetology/research/pdf/typhlopidae.pdf http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Typhlopidae/Ramphotyphlops… https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/554006750157261/ Google images

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