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Higher TaxaTyphlopidae (Asiatyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Prong-snouted Blind Snake 
SynonymOnychocephalus bituberculatus PETERS 1863: 233
Typhlops bituberculatus — WAITE 1918: 27
Typhlops bituberculatus — BOULENGER 1893: 48
Typhlops bituberculatus — WAITE 1918: 27
Ramphotyphlops bituberculatus — ROBB 1966: 676
Typhlina bituberculata — COGGER 1975
Ramphotyphlops bituberculatus — STORR 1981: 241
Ramphotyphlops bituberculatus — COGGER et al. 1983: 195
Libertadictus bituberculatus — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1984: 105
Libertadictus bituberculatus — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985: 40
Ramphotyphlops bituberculatus — MCDIARMID et al. 1999: 59
Ramphotyphlops bituberculatus — COGGER 2000: 589
Ramphotyphlops bituberculatus — STORR et al. 2002: 20
Austrotyphlops bituberculatus — WALLACH 2006
Ramphotyphlops bituberculatus — WILSON & SWAN 2010: 408
Libertadictus bituberculatus — HOSER 2012: 22
Ramphotyphlops bituberculatus — MARIN et al. 2013
Libertadictus (Libertadicus) bituberculatus — HOSER 2013: 43
Ramphotyphlops bituberculatus — WILSON & SWAN 2013: 438
Anilios bituberculatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 37
Anilios bituberculatus — HEDGES et al. 2014
Anilios bituberculatus — PYRON & WALLACH 2014
Ramphotyphlops bituberculatus — COGGER 2014: 797
Anilios bituberculatus — TIATRAGUL et la. 2023 
DistributionAustralia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia)

Type locality: “Buchsfelde bei Adelaide in Südaustralien” [= Loos, near Grawler, South Australia]  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesLectoype: ZMB 4723 (syntype: ZMB 4724), designated by Wells & Wellington 1985 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A moderately dark, moderately small, slender, long-snouted blind-snake with snout strongly trilobed (as seen from above) and slightly angular in profile, 20 midbody scale rows and nasal cleft proceeding from second labial (from Storr 1981).


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CommentType species: Onychocephalus bituberculatus Peters 1863 is the type species of the genus Libertadictus Wells & Wellington 1984: 104, a junior synonym of Anilios (fide Shea 2015). 
EtymologyNamed after Latin bis (= twice) + tuberculatus (= warty), alluding to the protuberances on each of the internasal scales, giving the species a distinctive ‘trilobed’ nose (”...jederseits neben demselben bilden ... einen vorspringenden Höcker...” (Peters 1863: 233). 
References
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