Anilios silvia (INGRAM & COVACEVICH, 1993)

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Higher Taxa	Typhlopidae (Asiatyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Great Sandy Blind Snake, Sylvia's Blind Snake
Synonym	Ramphotyphlops silvia INGRAM & COVACEVICH 1993 Ramphotyphlops silvia — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 73 Ramphotyphlops silvia — COGGER 2000: 769 Austrotyphlops silvia — WALLACH 2006 Ramphotyphlops silvia — WILSON & SWAN 2010: 420 Ramphotyphlops silvia — MARIN et al. 2013 Anilios silvia — HEDGES et al. 2014 Ramphotyphlops silvia — COGGER 2014: 810 Anilios silvia — WALLACH et al. 2014: 41 Anilios silvia — TIATRAGUL et la. 2023 Anilios silvia — EIPPER & EIPPER 2024: 330
Distribution	Australia (Queensland) Type locality: "Seary's Scrub, Cooloola NP (25°58'S, 153°0TE), SEQ" [Queensland, Australia].
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: QM J27387. Paratypes: (n=9) J31579 Fraser Is., NP HQ; J3 1576-7 Fraser Is. NP, HQ on ‘A’ rd; J35872 Tuan SF, Firetower 6; J27386 Seary’s Scrub, Cooloola NP; J43785 Cooloola NP; J23620 Cooloola, on Freshwater rd, 5km from junction; J46128 Pomona, 25km N, on rd to Rainbow Beach; J8521 Nambour. All localities in SE Queensland.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: A small (maximum total length 175), striped or black-and-white Ramphotyphlops with 20 midbody scale rows. The nasal cleft extends up from the nostril, to about the level of the eye and nearly divides the nasal. (Ingram & Covacevich 1993) Additional details (1113 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Type species: Ramphotyphlops sylvia Ingram & Covacevich 1993 is the type species of the subgenus Silvatyphlops Hoser 2013: 48 (subgenus of Libertadictus Wells & Wellington 1984), both synonyms of Anilios (fide SHEA 2015).
References	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. 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 Ingram G J; Covacevich J A 1993. Two new species of striped blindsnakes. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 34 (1): 181-184 - get paper here Marin, J., Donnellan, S.C., Hedges, S.B., Puillandre, N., Aplin, K., Doughty, P., Hutchinson, M.N., Couloux, A. & Vidal, N. 2013. Hidden species diversity of Australian burrowing snakes (Ramphotyphlops). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, doi: 10.1111/bij.12132 - 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. Tiatragul, S., Skeels, A., & Keogh, J. S. 2023. Paleoenvironmental models for Australia and the impact of aridification on blindsnake diversification. Journal of Biogeography, 50, 1899–1913 - 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, V. 2006. The nomenclatural status of Australian Ramphotyphlops (Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Bull. Maryland Herp. Soc. 42 (1): 8-24 - 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 National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.amonline.net.au/herpetology/research/pdf/typhlopidae.pdf http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Typhlopidae/Ramphotyphlops… https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/554006750157261/ Google images

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