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 Anilios vagurima — EIPPER & EIPPER 2024: 337 |
| 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. Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 4545 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| 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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