Anilios insperatus VENCHI, WILSON & BORSBOOM, 2015

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Higher Taxa	Typhlopidae (Asiatyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Fassifern Blind Snake
Synonym	Anilios insperatus VENCHI, WILSON & BORSBOOM 2015
Distribution	Australia (SE Queensland) Type locality: Warrill View, Department of Primary Industries Animal Genetic Centre Farm (2749' S, 15237' E),
Reproduction	oviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022)
Types	Holotype: QM J54987 (Queensland Museum), collected on 19 May 1992 by A. Borsboom.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Anilios insperatus sp. nov. is a small, slender blind snake characterized by the following combined characters: 16 midbody scale rows, 442 paravertebral scales, snout slightly trilobed from above and bluntly angular in profile, nasal scale not completely divided, nasal cleft not visible from above and joining the second supralabial scale, small, inconspicuous eyes, located within the ocular scale at its junction with the preocular and the supraocular scales, light uniform colouration with no differentiation between dorsal and ventral surfaces.
Comment	Only known from the holotype. Conservation: this is one of the most-threatened reptile species in Australia (Geyle et al. 2021).
Etymology	The Latin word insperatus means unexpected, unanticipated, unhoped, unlooked-for, unforeseen. This alludes to the unexpected discovery of a new species of snake in an intensively surveyed, easily accessible area less than 100 km from an Australian capital city. Used as a noun in apposition. The common name is derived from the type locality, Fassifern Valley.
References	Geyle, H. M., Tingley, R., Amy, A., Cogger, H., Couper, P., Cowan, M., Craig, M., Doughty, P., Driscoll, D., Ellis, R., Emery, J-P., Fenner, A., Gardner, M., Garnett, S., Gillespie, G., Greenless, M., Hoskin, C., Keogh, S., Lloyd, R., ... Chapple, D. 2020. Reptiles on the brink: Identifying the Australian terrestrial snake and lizard species most at risk of extinction. Pacific Conservation Biology - get paper here VENCHI, ALBERTO; STEVE K. WILSON & ADRIAN C. BORSBOOM 2015. A new blind snake (Serpentes: Typhlopidae) from an endangered habitat in south-eastern Queensland, Australia. Zootaxa 3990 (2): 272–278 - get paper here Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/311117904446148/ Google images

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