Beaked blind snake

Beaked blind snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Typhlopidae
Genus:Anilios
Species: A. waitii
Binomial name
Anilios waitii
(Boulenger, 1895)
Synonyms[2]
  • Typhlops waitii
    Boulenger, 1895
  • Ramphotyphlops waitii
    — Cogger, 1983
  • Austrotyphlops waitii
    — Wallach, 2006
  • Anilios waitii
    — Hedges et al., 2014

The beaked blind snake (Anilios waitii) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.[3][4]

Etymology

The specific name, waitii, is in honor of English-born Australian zoologist Edgar Ravenswood Waite.[5]

Geographic range

It is endemic to Western Australia.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Shea, G. & Ellis, R. 2018. Anilios waitii (amended version of 2017 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T178581A129368001. Downloaded on 08 August 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Anilios waitii ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ↑ McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  4. ↑ "Ramphotyphlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  5. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Ramphotyphlops waitii, p. 278).

Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1895). "On a new Typhlops previously confounded with Typhlops unguirostris, Peters". Proc. Linnean Soc. New South Wales, Second Series 9: 718-719. (Typhlops waitii, new species).
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