title: Anilios
text: # Anilios
  
  Anilios is a genus of snakes in the family Typhlopidae, first described in 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 (Boulenger, 1889)
  * Anilios ammodytes (Montague, 1914)
  * Anilios aspina (Couper, Covacevich & S. Wilson, 1998)
  * Anilios australis Gray, 1845
  * Anilios batillus (Waite, 1894)
  * Anilios bicolor (W. Peters, 1858)
  * Anilios bituberculatus (W. Peters, 1863)
  * Anilios broomi (Boulenger, 1898)
  * Anilios centralis (Storr, 1984)
  * Anilios chamodracaena (Ingram & Covacevich, 1993)
  * Anilios diversus (Waite, 1894)
  * Anilios endoterus (Waite, 1918)
  * Anilios erycinus (F. Werner, 1901)
  * Anilios fossor Shea, 2015
  * Anilios ganei (Aplin, 1998)
  * Anilios grypus (Waite, 1918)
  * Anilios guentheri (W. Peters, 1865)
  * Anilios hamatus (Storr, 1981)
  * Anilios howi (Storr, 1983)
  * Anilios insperatus Venchi, S. Wilson & Borsboom, 2015
  * Anilios kimberleyensis (Storr, 1981)
  * Anilios leptosoma (Robb, 1972)
  * Anilios leucoproctus (Boulenger, 1889)
  * Anilios ligatus (W. Peters, 1879)
  * Anilios longissimus (Aplin, 1998)
  * Anilios margaretae (Storr, 1981)
  * Anilios micromma (Storr, 1981)
  * Anilios minimus (Kinghorn, 1929)
  * Anilios nema (Shea & Horner, 1997)
  * Anilios nigrescens Gray, 1845
  * Anilios obtusifrons Ellis & Doughty, 2017
  * Anilios pilbarensis (Aplin & Donnellan, 1993)
  * Anilios pinguis (Waite, 1897)
  * Anilios proximus (Waite, 1893)
  * Anilios robertsi (Couper, Covacevich & S. Wilson, 1998)
  * Anilios silvia (Ingram & Covacevich, 1993)
  * Anilios splendidus (Aplin, 1998)
  * Anilios systenos Ellis & Doughty, 2017
  * Anilios torresianus (Boulenger, 1889)
  * Anilios tovelli (Loveridge, 1945)
  * Anilios troglodytes (Storr, 1981)
  * Anilios unguirostris (W. Peters, 1867)
  * Anilios vagurima Ellis, 2019
  * Anilios waitii (Boulenger, 1895)
  * Anilios wiedii (W. Peters, 1867)
  * Anilios yampiensis (Storr, 1981)
  * Anilios yirrikalae (Kinghorn, 1942)
  * Anilios zonula Ellis, 2016
  
  Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Anilios.
  
  