Anilios ganei (APLIN, 1998)

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Higher Taxa	Typhlopidae (Asiatyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Rhamphotyphlops ganei APLIN 1998 Ramphotyphlops ganei — COGGER 2000: 768 Austrotyphlops ganei — WALLACH 2006 Ramphotyphlops ganei — WILSON & SWAN 2010: 412 Ramphotyphlops ganei — MARIN et al. 2013 Anilios ganei — HEDGES et al. 2014 Ramphotyphlops ganei — COGGER 2014: 801 Anilios ganei — WALLACH et al. 2014: 38 Anilios ganei — TIATRAGUL et la. 2023
Distribution	NW Australia (Pilbara region) Type locality: Cathedral Gorge, 30 km west of Newman, Western Australia, 23°17'30"S, 119°28'E.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: WAM R124835, Western Australian Museum, an adult female collected on 26 5eptember 1995 by Mr Brian Bush. Heart and liver frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored in -80°C ultrafreeze at the Western Australian Museum.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: An elongate, moderately stout Ramphotyphlops with 24 midbody scale rows, a foreshortened head with snout bluntly rounded in lateral profile and from above, moderately high number of vertebral scales (40-448) and nasal cleft vertically dividing the nasal scale, originating from the second labial scale and terminating at the rostral scale on the dorsal surface of the head [APLIN 1998]. Additional details (330 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment
Etymology	“Named for Mr Lori Gane, formerly of Pannawonica, schoolteacher, amateur herpetologist and collector of the first known specimen of R. ganei in 1991.”
References	Aplin, K. P. 1998. Three new blindsnakes (Squamata: Typhlopidae) from northwestern Australia. Rec. West. Austr. Mus. 19 (1): 1-12 - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here 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 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 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://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IonVpHf7KwI/TsK_YiD4UbI/AAAAAAAAUrI/w5jSTgfd3T4… http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Typhlopidae/Ramphotyphlops… https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/448175217407082/ Google images

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