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Anilios Erycinus
The northern New Guinea blind snake (''Anilios erycinus'') is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family.McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. (series). (volume). References Anilios Reptiles described in 1901 {{Scolecophidia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Werner
Franz Josef Maria Werner (15 August 1867 in Vienna – 28 February 1939 in Vienna) was an Austrian zoologist and explorer. Specializing as a herpetologist and entomologist, Werner described numerous species and other taxa of frogs, snakes, insects, and other organisms. His father introduced him at age six to reptiles and amphibians. A brilliant student, he corresponded often with George Albert Boulenger (1858–1937) and Oskar Boettger (1844–1910) who encouraged his studies with these animals. Werner obtained his doctorate in Vienna in 1890 and then after spending a year in Leipzig, began to teach at the Vienna Institute of Zoology. In 1919, he became tenured as a professor, maintaining this title until his retirement in 1933. Although working close to the Vienna Natural History Museum, he could not use their herpetological collections, after the death of its director, Franz Steindachner (1834–1919), who did not like Werner, and had barred him from accessing the coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snake
Snakes are elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes . Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads ( cranial kinesis). To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. Some species retain a pelvic girdle with a pair of vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca. Lizards have evolved elongate bodies without limbs or with greatly reduced limbs about twenty-five times independently via convergent evolution, leading to many lineages of legless lizards. These resemble snakes, but several common groups of legless lizards have eyelids and external ears, which snakes lack, although this rule is not universal (see Amphisbae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Typhlopidae
The Typhlopidae are a family of blind snakes. They are found mostly in the tropical regions of Africa, Asia, the Americas, and all mainland Australia and various islands. The rostral scale overhangs the mouth to form a shovel-like burrowing structure. They live underground in burrows, and since they have no use for vision, their eyes are mostly vestigial. They have light-detecting black eye spots, and teeth occur in the upper jaw. Typhlopids do not have dislocatable lower jaw articulations restricting them to prey smaller than their oral aperture. The tail ends with a horn-like scale. Most of these species are oviparous. Currently, 18 genera are recognized containing over 200 species. Geographic range They are found in most tropical and many subtropical regions all over the world, particularly in Africa, Asia, islands in the Pacific, tropical America, and southeastern Europe. Fossil record Possible Typhlopid skin has been identified in Dominican amber. Genera Type genus For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anilios
''Anilios'' is a genus of snakes in the family Typhlopidae, first described on 1845 by John Edward Gray. 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. *'' Anilios affinis'' *'' Anilios ammodytes'' *'' Anilios aspina'' *'' Anilios australis'' *'' Anilios batillus'' *'' Anilios bicolor'' *'' Anilios bituberculatus'' *'' Anilios broomi'' *'' Anilios centralis'' *'' Anilios chamodracaena'' *'' Anilios diversus'' *'' Anilios endoterus'' *'' Anilios erycinus'' *'' Anilios fossor'' *'' Anilios ganei'' *'' Anilios grypus'' *'' Anilios guentheri'' *'' Anilios hamatus'' *'' Anilios howi'' *'' Anilios insperatus'' *'' Anilios kimberleyensis'' *'' Anilios leptosoma'' *'' Anilios leucoproctus'' *'' Anilios ligatus'' *'' Anilios longissimus'' *'' Anilios margaretae'' *'' Anilios micromma'' *'' Anilios minimus'' *'' Ani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
