Anilios vagurima ELLIS, 2019
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Anilios vagurima
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| Higher Taxa | Typhlopidae (Asiatyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Synonym | Anilios vagurima ELLIS 2019 |
| Distribution | Australia: Western Australia Type locality: Mornington Sanctuary, south central Kimberley region, Western Australia, Australia (-17.0338°S, 126.6537°E). |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype: WAM R163524, adult male collected on 21 October 2006. Collector unknown, donated to the WAM by R. Lloyd, 21 August 2008. Fixative unknown, stored in 70% ethanol solution at WAM. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A moderately slender and elongate Anilios to approximately 325 mm. Distinguished from all other congeners by a combination of midbody scales in 22 rows, 557 total dorsal scales, 542 dorsal body scales; snout moderately trilobed in dorsal view, bluntly rounded and elongate in profile; rostral scale narrowly bell-shaped, widest anteriorly at rostral-nasal suture, ~40% of head width, with posterior edge terminating well before eye line; nasal scale partially divided, offset nostril positioned slightly closer to rostral than preocular; nasal cleft originating at the second supralabial and arcs anterodorsally to the nostril and then posterodorsally to lie nearly parallel to rostral-nasal suture within the apex of nasal scale, where it is clearly visible in dorsal view; and contrasting dorsal and ventral colouration. |
| Comment | No known photo in life (Ellis 2019). Habitat: The type specimen was collected from open savannah woodland habitat. Habitat was characterised by a canopy dominated by Eucalyptus brevifolia and occasionally other trees (including E. opaca, E. tectifica, Corymbia grandifolia and C. polycarpa), over a sparse shrub cover (<10%) comprising mixed small to medium shrubs (including Carissa spinarum, Dodonia oxyptera, Brachychiton diversifolius and Persoonia sp.) and patchy cover of mixed tussock grasses (~30–60%), dominated by Sehima nervosum and other grasses (including Aristida sp., Chrysopogon fallax, Heteropogon contortus, Sorghum timorense and Themeda triandra), on a compacted red-brown clay-loam substrate with sparsely scattered termite mounds (Figure 4A in Ellis 2019). |
| Etymology | The specific epithet vagurima (pronounced vah-goo-ree-mah, with accent on the second syllable) is formed from the Latin words vagus (wandering, stray) and rima (cleft, fissure), as in ‘wandering-cleft’, in reference to the wandering path and termination point of the nasal cleft diagnostic for the species. Used as a noun in apposition. |
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