Anilios

Anilios is a genus of snakes in the family Typhlopidae, first described in 1845 by John Edward Gray.^[3][4]

Anilios
Anilios bituberculatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Typhlopidae
Genus:	Anilios Gray, 1845
Type species
Anilios australis[1][2] Gray, 1845

Geographic range

Species of the genus Anilios are found predominantly in Australia, with a few species located in New Guinea.

Species

The following 48 species are recognized as being valid.^[5]

• Anilios affinis (Boulenger, 1889)
• Anilios ammodytes (Montague, 1914)
• Anilios aspina (Couper, Covacevich & S. Wilson, 1998)
• Anilios australis Gray, 1845
• Anilios batillus (Waite, 1894)
• Anilios bicolor (W. Peters, 1858)
• Anilios bituberculatus (W. Peters, 1863)
• Anilios broomi (Boulenger, 1898)
• Anilios centralis (Storr, 1984)
• Anilios chamodracaena (Ingram & Covacevich, 1993)
• Anilios diversus (Waite, 1894)
• Anilios endoterus (Waite, 1918)
• Anilios erycinus (F. Werner, 1901)
• Anilios fossor Shea, 2015
• Anilios ganei (Aplin, 1998)
• Anilios grypus (Waite, 1918)
• Anilios guentheri (W. Peters, 1865)
• Anilios hamatus (Storr, 1981)
• Anilios howi (Storr, 1983)
• Anilios insperatus Venchi, S. Wilson & Borsboom, 2015
• Anilios kimberleyensis (Storr, 1981)
• Anilios leptosoma (Robb, 1972)
• Anilios leucoproctus (Boulenger, 1889)
• Anilios ligatus (W. Peters, 1879)
• Anilios longissimus (Aplin, 1998)
• Anilios margaretae (Storr, 1981)
• Anilios micromma (Storr, 1981)
• Anilios minimus (Kinghorn, 1929)
• Anilios nema (Shea & Horner, 1997)
• Anilios nigrescens Gray, 1845
• Anilios obtusifrons Ellis & Doughty, 2017
• Anilios pilbarensis (Aplin & Donnellan, 1993)
• Anilios pinguis (Waite, 1897)
• Anilios proximus (Waite, 1893)
• Anilios robertsi (Couper, Covacevich & S. Wilson, 1998)
• Anilios silvia (Ingram & Covacevich, 1993)
• Anilios splendidus (Aplin, 1998)
• Anilios systenos Ellis & Doughty, 2017
• Anilios torresianus (Boulenger, 1889)
• Anilios tovelli (Loveridge, 1945)
• Anilios troglodytes (Storr, 1981)
• Anilios unguirostris (W. Peters, 1867)
• Anilios vagurima Ellis, 2019
• Anilios waitii (Boulenger, 1895)
• Anilios wiedii (W. Peters, 1867)
• Anilios yampiensis (Storr, 1981)
• Anilios yirrikalae (Kinghorn, 1942)
• Anilios zonula Ellis, 2016

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Anilios.