Anilios bituberculatus (PETERS, 1863)
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Higher Taxa | Typhlopidae (Asiatyphlopinae), Typhlopoidea, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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Common Names | E: Prong-snouted Blind Snake |
Synonym | Onychocephalus bituberculatus PETERS 1863: 233 Typhlops bituberculatus — WAITE 1918: 27 Typhlops bituberculatus — BOULENGER 1893: 48 Typhlops bituberculatus — WAITE 1918: 27 Ramphotyphlops bituberculatus — ROBB 1966: 676 Typhlina bituberculata — COGGER 1975 Ramphotyphlops bituberculatus — STORR 1981: 241 Ramphotyphlops bituberculatus — COGGER et al. 1983: 195 Libertadictus bituberculatus — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1984: 105 Libertadictus bituberculatus — WELLS & WELLINGTON 1985: 40 Ramphotyphlops bituberculatus — MCDIARMID et al. 1999: 59 Ramphotyphlops bituberculatus — COGGER 2000: 589 Ramphotyphlops bituberculatus — STORR et al. 2002: 20 Austrotyphlops bituberculatus — WALLACH 2006 Ramphotyphlops bituberculatus — WILSON & SWAN 2010: 408 Libertadictus bituberculatus — HOSER 2012: 22 Ramphotyphlops bituberculatus — MARIN et al. 2013 Libertadictus (Libertadicus) bituberculatus — HOSER 2013: 43 Ramphotyphlops bituberculatus — WILSON & SWAN 2013: 438 Anilios bituberculatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 37 Anilios bituberculatus — HEDGES et al. 2014 Anilios bituberculatus — PYRON & WALLACH 2014 Ramphotyphlops bituberculatus — COGGER 2014: 797 Anilios bituberculatus — TIATRAGUL et la. 2023 |
Distribution | Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia) Type locality: “Buchsfelde bei Adelaide in Südaustralien” [= Loos, near Grawler, South Australia] |
Reproduction | oviparous |
Types | Lectoype: ZMB 4723 (syntype: ZMB 4724), designated by Wells & Wellington 1985 |
Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A moderately dark, moderately small, slender, long-snouted blind-snake with snout strongly trilobed (as seen from above) and slightly angular in profile, 20 midbody scale rows and nasal cleft proceeding from second labial (from Storr 1981). |
Comment | Type species: Onychocephalus bituberculatus Peters 1863 is the type species of the genus Libertadictus Wells & Wellington 1984: 104, a junior synonym of Anilios (fide Shea 2015). |
Etymology | Named after Latin bis (= twice) + tuberculatus (= warty), alluding to the protuberances on each of the internasal scales, giving the species a distinctive ‘trilobed’ nose (”...jederseits neben demselben bilden ... einen vorspringenden Höcker...” (Peters 1863: 233). |
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