Anilios leucoproctus (BOULENGER, 1889)

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Higher Taxa	Typhlopidae (Asiatyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: White-tailed blindsnake
Synonym	Typhlops leucoproctus BOULENGER 1889: 361 Typhlops leucoproctus — BOULENGER 1893: 20 Typhlops leucoproctus — DE ROOIJ 1917: 11 Typhlina (?) leucoprocta — MCDOWELL 1974: 29 Ramphotyphlops leucoproctus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 67 Ramphotyphlops leucoproctus — COGGER 2000: 593 Ramphotyphlops leucoproctus — WILSON & SWAN 2010 Anilios leucoproctus — HEDGES et al. 2014 Anilios leucoproctus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 39 Ramphotyphlops leucoproctus — COGGER 2014: 804 Anilios leucoproctus — EIPPER & EIPPER 2024: 317
Distribution	S Papua New Guinea Australia (Queensland) Type locality: Fly River, Western Province (1946.1.11.84), other syntypes from Murray Island, Torres Street, Australia (BMNH 1946.1.10.58-60); Queensland, Australia (1946.1.11.97) [fide O’Shea 1996].
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Lectotype: BMNH 1946.1.11.84, formerly BMNH 85.6.30.19, collected by Rev. S. Macfarlane. Lectotype designation by Wells & Wellington 1985
Diagnosis	Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (774 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment
References	Boulenger, G.A. 1889. Descriptions of new Typhlopidæ in the British Museum. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 4: 360-363 - get paper here Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp. - 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. de Rooij, N. DE 1917. The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. Il. Ophidia. Leiden (E. J. Brill), xiv + 334 S. - get paper here Eipper T & Eipper S 2024. SNAKES OF AUSTRALIA. Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 368 pp. - 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 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. 1899. Ueber Reptilien und Batrachier aus Togoland, Kamerun und Deutsch-Neu-Guinea grösstentheils aus dem k. Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 49: 132-157 - 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 http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Typhlopidae/Ramphotyphlops… http://www.seh-herpetology.org/images/atlas/pdf/squamata/anileu.pdf Google images

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