Anilios erycinus (WERNER, 1901)

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Higher Taxa	Typhlopidae (Asiatyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Northern New Guinea blindsnake
Synonym	Typhlops erycinus WERNER 1901: 611 Typhlops erycinus — DE ROOIJ 1917: 6 Typhlops iridescens JONG 1930 Typhlops erycinus — HEDIGER 1934: 472 Typhlina erycina — MCDOWELL 1974: 38 Ramphotyphlops erycinus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 65 Anilios erycinus — HEDGES et al. 2014 Anilios erycinus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 38
Distribution	New Guinea Type locality: German New Guinea [= NE Papua New Guinea]
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: lost (presumed) (fide O’Shea 1996) Holotype: MZB [iridescens]
Diagnosis	Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (935 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment
References	De JONG 1930. List of reptiles collected by Prof. Dr. W. Docters van Leeuwen during the North New-Guinea Expedition 1926. Nova Guinea, 15 : 405-408 de Rooij, N. DE 1917. The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. Il. Ophidia. Leiden (E. J. Brill), xiv + 334 S. - get paper here 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 Hediger, H. 1934. Beitrag zur Herpetologie und Zoogeographie Neu-Britanniens und einiger umliegender Gebiete. Zool. Jahrb. (Syst.) 65: 441-582 Iskandar, Djoko T. and Mumpuni 2002. The herpetological type specimens in the Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense Collection. Hamadryad 27 (1):123-135 - 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. McDowell, S. B. 1974. A catalogue of the snakes of New Guinea and the Solomons, with special reference to those in the Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Part l. Scolecophidia. Journal of Herpetology 8 (1): 1-57 - get paper here O’Shea,M. 1996. A Guide to the Snakes of Papua New Guinea. Independent Publishing, Port Moresby, xii + 239 pp. - get paper here Tiatragul, Sarin; Alexander Skeels, J Scott Keogh 2024. Morphological evolution and niche conservatism across a continental radiation of Australian blindsnakes. Evolution, 78 (11): 1854–1868, - get paper here Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp. Werner, F. 1901. Ueber Reptilien und Batrachier aus Ecuador und Neu-Guinea. Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 51: 593-614 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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