Anilios Gray, 1845

Shea, Glenn M., 2015, A new species of Anilios (Scolecophidia: Typhlopidae) from Central Australia, Zootaxa 4033 (1), pp. 103-116 : 113

Anilios Gray, 1845 .

Type species, A. australis Gray, 1845 , by subsequent designation ( Stejneger 1904: 683), see Savage and Boundy (2012) and Wallach and Glaw (2009). Type designation reiterated by Stejneger (1907) and Cochran (1941).

Synonymy

Libertadictus Wells & Wellington 1984: 104 (type species, Onychocephalus bituberculatus Peters 1863 )

Sivadictus Wells & Wellington 1985: 41 (type species, Anilios nigrescens Gray 1845 )

Austrotyphlops Wallach 2006 (type species, A. nigrescens Gray 1845 )

Suewitttyphlops Hoser 2013: 43 (subgenus of Libertadictus Wells & Wellington 1984 ; type species, Typhlops ligatus Peters 1879 )

Robinwitttyphlops Hoser 2013: 44 (subgenus of Libertadictus ; type species, Typhlops unguirostris Peters 1867b )

Pattersontyphlops Hoser 2013: 44 (subgenus Libertadictus ; type species, Typhlops wiedii Peters 1867a )

Slopptyphlops Hoser 2013: 45 (subgenus of Libertadictus ; type species, Typhlops ammodytes Montague 1914 )

Mantyphlops Hoser 2013: 45 (subgenus of Libertadictus ; type species, Typhlops guentheri Peters 1865 )

Jackyhosertyphlops Hoser 2013: 46 (subgenus of Libertadictus ; type species, Ramphotyphlops longissimus Aplin 1998 )

Kerrtyphlops Hoser 2013: 47 (subgenus of Libertadictus ; type species, Typhlops proximus Waite 1893 ).

Adelynhosertyphlops Hoser 2013: 47 (subgenus of Libertadictus ; type species, Ramphotyphlops pilbarensis Aplin & Donnellan 1993 )

Bennetttyphlops Hoser 2013: 47 (subgenus of Libertadictus ; type species, Typhlops pinguis Waite 1897 ).

Silvatyphlops Hoser 2013: 47 (subgenus of Libertadictus ; type species, Ramphotyphlops sylvia Ingram & Covacevich 1993 ).

Buckleytyphlops Hoser 2013: 48 (subgenus of Libertadictus ; type species, Ramphotyphlops aspina Couper et al. 1998 ).

Sheatyphlops Hoser 2013: 48 (subgenus of Libertadictus ; type species, Typhlops batillus Waite 1894 ).

Ackytyphlops Hoser 2013: 48 (subgenus of Sivadictus Wells & Wellington 1985 ; type species, Typhlops polygrammicus Schlegel 1839 ).

Sundatyphlops Hedges et al. 2014: 39 (type species, Typhlops polygrammicus Schlegel 1839 ). Synonymy following the arguments of Pyron and Wallach (2014).

While some of these names may apply to definable lineages once appropriate analyses are undertaken, at the present time, they are of no value for classification, and the relationships amongst the species assigned to Anilios remain uncertain, with a variety of hypotheses of relationship proposed on morphological ( McDowell 1974: Greer 1997) and genetic ( Rabosky et al. 2004; Vidal et al. 2010; Marin et al. 2013; Hedges et al. 2014; Pyron & Wallach 2014) evidence, none based on complete or nearly complete sampling of the species in the genus. Further studies on the content and intrageneric relationships of Anilios are needed.