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Anilios vagurima ELLIS, 2019

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Higher TaxaTyphlopidae (Asiatyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymAnilios vagurima ELLIS 2019
Anilios vagurima — EIPPER & EIPPER 2024: 337 
DistributionAustralia: Western Australia

Type locality: Mornington Sanctuary, south central Kimberley region, Western Australia, Australia (-17.0338°S, 126.6537°E).  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype: 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.
 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: 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.


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CommentNo 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). 
References
  • Eipper T & Eipper S 2024. SNAKES OF AUSTRALIA. Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 368 pp. - get paper here
  • Ellis, Ryan J. 2019. A typhlopid hotspot in the tropics: increased blindsnake diversity in the Kimberley region of Western Australia with the description of a new Anilios species (Serpentes:Typhlopidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 34: 031–037 - 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
 
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