Anilios ganei
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Anilios ganei is a species of snake from the blind snake family(Typhlopidae). She's in the Pilbara region in the Australian state of Western Australia endemic . In 1998 it was described by Ken Aplin under the name Ramphotyphlops ganei and in 2014 it was placedin the genus Anilios by Stephen Blair Hedges . The species epithet honors Lori Gane, a school teacher and amateur herpetologist from Pannawonica, who discovered the first specimen of this species, a run over female, in 1991.
features
Anilios ganei reaches a head-trunk length of 335 mm in the females and 230 mm in the males. The tail length is 4.5 to 5.3 mm in the females and 7.0 mm in the males. The body is worm-like, elongated, and moderately thick. The middle of the body has 24 rows of scales. The shortened head has a blunt snout that is rounded from above in the side profile. The number of vertebral scales is 430 to 448. The nasal furrow divides the nasal shields , which begin at the second supralabial and end at the rostral , vertically on the top of the head. The rostral is narrow from above, longer than wide, and narrows towards the front. The top of the body is dark gray-brown, the flanks are lighter and the underside of the body is cream-colored.
Occurrence, habitat and way of life
The few known specimens of Anilios ganei were collected at opposite ends of the Pilbara highlands. The species likely inhabits humid microhabitats in the deeper, shadier canyons across the region. It digs tunnels below the surface of the earth where it finds food, larvae and pupae of ants and termites.
literature
- Harold G. Cogger: Reptiles & Amphibians of Australia. 6th edition. Ralph Curtis Books, Sanibel, Florida 2000, ISBN 0-88359-048-4 , p. 801.
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Individual evidence
- ^ A b Aplin, KP 1998. Three new blindsnakes (Squamata: Typhlopidae) from northwestern Australia. Rec. West. Austr. Mus. 19 (1): 1-12
- ↑ 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