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Kimberley deep-soil blind snake
Conservation status

Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Typhlopidae
Genus: Anilios
Species: A. howi
Binomial name
Anilios howi
Storr, 1983
Synonyms
  • Rhamphotyphlops howi
    Storr, 1983
  • Austrotyphlops howi
    — Wallach, 2006
  • Anilios howi
    — Hedges et al., 2014

The Kimberley deep-soil blind snake (Anilios howi) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae. The species is endemic to Australia.

Etymology

The specific name, howi, is in honour of Australian zoologist Richard Alfred How (born 1944).

Geographic range

A. howi is found in the Australian state of Western Australia.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of A. howi is grassland.

Description

A. howi has 18 scale rows at midbody, and it has 434 ventrals. The nasal is completely divided, and the nasal cleft proceeds from the second upper labial. The holotype has a total length of 21 cm (8.3 in). Dorsally, it is dark brown, darker on the head, and even darker toward the tail tip. Ventrally, it is lighter brown.

Behaviour

A. howi is terrestrial and fossorial.

Reproduction

A. howi is oviparous.

References

  1. ^ Shea, G.; Ellis, R. (2017). "Anilios howi ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T102839205A102839216. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T102839205A102839216.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. ^ Species Anilios howi at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  3. McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (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 howi, p. 126).
  6. Storr GM (1983).

Further reading

  • Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. ISBN 978-0643100350. (Ramphotyphlops howi, p. 803).
  • Hedges SB, Marion AB, Lipp KM, Marin J, Vidal N (2014). "A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata)". Caribbean Herpetology (49): 1-61. (Anilios howi, new combination).
  • Storr GM (1983). "A New Ramphotyphlops (Serpentes: Typhlopidae) from Western Australia". Records of the Western Australian Museum 10 (4): 315–317. (Ramphotyphlops howi, new species).
  • Wallach V (2006). "The nomenclatural status of Australian Ramphotyphlops (Serpentes: Typhlopidae)". Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society 42 (1): 8-24. (Austrotyphlops howi, new combination).


Taxon identifiers
Ramphotyphlops howi


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