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Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk).
Latest update: December 31st, 2022.


Taxonomy of the family Aniliidae
Bibliography of the genus Anilius
Biodiversity of the family Aniliidae








Genus
Anilius

South American Pipe Snake

Korallen-Rollschlange, Rollschlange

Sydamerikansk Cylinderslange, Falsk Koralslange

1811 Tortrix Oppel [not Tortrix Denis & Schiffermüller 1775 (Insecta); not Tortrix Scopoli 1777 (Insecta)] (type species: none designated)
1816 Anilius Oken (type species: Anguis scytale Linnaeus 1758)
1820 Elysia Hemprich [substitute name for Tortrix Oppel 1811; not Elysia Risso 1818 (Mollusca)]
1820 Helison Goldfuss [substitute name for Tortrix Oppel 1811]
1823 Ilysia Lichtenstein [error or substitute name for Elysia Hemprich 1820]
1825 Torquatrix Haworth [substitute name for Tortrix Oppel 1811]
Contents: 1 species, which is not endemic.
Endemism: 0% 100%
Distribution: As for the single species.

Anilius scytale

South American Pipe Snake, Red Pipe Snake, Neotropical Pipe Snake, Guyanan Pipe Snake, Coral Pipe Snake, Coral Python, Scarlet Pipe Snake, Scarlet Ground Snake, (False Coral Snake)

Korallen-Rollschlange, Rollschlange

Sydamerikansk Cylinderslange, Falsk Koralslange

1758 Anguis scytale Linnaeus
Tortrix scytale Oppel 1811
Anilius scytale Oken 1816
Ilysia scytale Lichtenstein 1823
1768 Anguis annulata Laurenti (McDiarmid, Campbell & Touré 1999)
Tortrix annulata Merrem 1820
1768 Anguis atra Laurenti (McDiarmid, Campbell & Touré 1999)
1768 Anguis caerulea Laurenti (McDiarmid, Campbell & Touré 1999)
1768 Anguis corallina Laurenti (McDiarmid, Campbell & Touré 1999)
Tortrix coralinus Oppel 1811
1768 Anguis fasciata Laurenti (McDiarmid, Campbell & Touré 1999)
1801 Anguis ruber Latreille in Sonnini & Latreille (McDiarmid, Campbell & Touré 1999)
1958 Anilius scytale phelpsorum Roze
Anilius phelpsorum Mumaw, González & Fernández 2015

Remarks: Mumaw, González & Fernández (2015) regarded phelpsorum as a separate species.
Distribution: Bolivia, Brazil (Acre, Amapa, Amazonas, Ceara, Goias, Maranhao, Mato Grosso, Para, Rondonia, Roraima, Tocantins), Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Surinam, Trinidad & Tobago (Trinidad), Venezuela.