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Published: 6 September 2023

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Jono, Teppei, Yosuke Kojima, and Takafumi Mizuno. "Novel cooperative antipredator tactics of an ant specialized against a snake." Royal Society Open Science 6, no. 8 (2019): 190283. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.190283.

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Eusocial insects can express surprisingly complex cooperative defence of the colony. Brood and reproductive castes typically remain in the nest and are protected by workers' various antipredator tactics against intruders. In Madagascar, a myrmicine ant, Aphaenogaster swammerdami , occurs sympatrically with a large blindsnake, Madatyphlops decorsei . As blindsnakes generally specialize on feeding on termites and ants brood by intruding into the nest, these snakes are presumably a serious predator on the ant. Conversely, a lamprophiid snake, Madagascarophis colubrinus , is considered to occur often in active A . swammerdami nests without being attacked. By presenting M . colubrinus , M . decorsei and a control snake, Thamnosophis lateralis , at the entrance of the nest, we observed two highly specialized interactions between ants and snakes: the acceptance of M . colubrinus into the nest and the cooperative evacuation of the brood from the nest for protection against the ant-eating M . decorsei . Given that M . colubrinus is one of the few known predators of blindsnakes in this area, A . swammerdami may protect their colonies against this blindsnake by two antipredator tactics, symbiosis with M . colubrinus and evacuation in response to intrusion by blindsnakes. These findings demonstrate that specialized predators can drive evolution of complex cooperative defence in eusocial species.

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Vidal, Nicolas, Julie Marin, Marina Morini, et al. "Blindsnake evolutionary tree reveals long history on Gondwana." Biology Letters 6, no. 4 (2010): 558–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2010.0220.

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Worm-like snakes (scolecophidians) are small, burrowing species with reduced vision. Although largely neglected in vertebrate research, knowledge of their biogeographical history is crucial for evaluating hypotheses of snake origins. We constructed a molecular dataset for scolecophidians with detailed sampling within the largest family, Typhlopidae (blindsnakes). Our results demonstrate that scolecophidians have had a long Gondwanan history, and that their initial diversification followed a vicariant event: the separation of East and West Gondwana approximately 150 Ma. We find that the earliest blindsnake lineages, representing two new families described here, were distributed on the palaeolandmass of India+Madagascar named here as Indigascar. Their later evolution out of Indigascar involved vicariance and several oceanic dispersal events, including a westward transatlantic one, unexpected for burrowing animals. The exceptional diversification of scolecophidians in the Cenozoic was probably linked to a parallel radiation of prey (ants and termites) as well as increased isolation of populations facilitated by their fossorial habits.

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Mizuno, T., and Y. Kojima. "A blindsnake that decapitates its termite prey." Journal of Zoology 297, no. 3 (2015): 220–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12268.

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McCranie, James R., and Leonardo Valdés Orellana. "Typhlops tycherus Townsend, Wilson, Ketzler and Luque-Montes, 2008 (Squamata: Serpentes: Typhlopidae): significant range extension for this Honduran endemic." Check List 8, no. 6 (2012): 1308. http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/8.6.1308.

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We report the second known museum specimen of Typhlops tycherus, a blindsnake endemic to Honduras. This new specimen is from a locality about 240 km from the species’ type locality, thus documenting that T. tycherus has a broader geographical distribution than previously thought.

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Arruda, Mauricio Papa de, Carlos Henrique L. N. Almeida, Daniel C. Rolim, and Fábio Maffei. "First record in midwestern region of the state of São Paulo, Brazil of Typhlops brongersmianus Vanzolini, 1976 (Squamata: Typhlopidae)." Check List 7, no. 4 (2011): 571. http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/7.4.571.

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In this study we report on two new records of the blindsnake Typhlops brongersmianus for the municipality of Bauru, midwestern region of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. These records expand the geographic distribution currently known for this species in the state and contribute to the knowledge of snakes in southeastern Brazil.

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Rabosky, D. L., K. P. Aplin, S. C. Donnellan, and S. B. Hedges. "Molecular phylogeny of blindsnakes (Ramphotyphlops) from western Australia and resurrection of Ramphotyphlops bicolor (Peters, 1857)." Australian Journal of Zoology 52, no. 5 (2004): 531. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/zo04045.

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Blindsnakes (Typhlopidae) represent one of the least known elements of the Australian herpetofauna. Mitochondrial DNA sequence data and morphology are used here to show that a widespread species of Australian blindsnake, Ramphotyphlops australis, comprises two distinct species. Ramphotyphlops bicolor (new combination) is resurrected from synonymy with R. australis and redescriptions are provided for both species. Mitochondrial DNA sequence variation within R. australis indicates that the central and south-coast populations are more closely related to each other than either is to the morphologically distinctive populations at the northern edge of the species' range. Observed levels of differentiation suggest historical isolation of populations from the Kalbarri/Shark Bay region of the western Australian coastline. However, lack of concordance between mitochondrial haplotype phylogeny and morphology for several individuals might reflect limited gene flow between the northern and south–central populations. We note that many taxa show restricted distributions or range disjunctions along the central Western Australian coastal margin, and we discuss possible models to explain population fragmentation in this region. Pliocene–Pleistocene sea-level fluctuations along the western Australian coast could have isolated sand plain communities in the Kalbarri/Shark Bay region from similar communities further south near Geraldton, possibly underlying the phylogeographic pattern in R. australis. Data from additional taxa will be needed to fully evaluate this hypothesis.

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Kraus, Fred. "New Species of Blindsnake from Rossel Island, Papua New Guinea." Journal of Herpetology 39, no. 4 (2005): 591–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1670/86-05a.1.

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Flores-Villela, Oscar A., Eric N. Smith, Luis Canseco-Márquez, and Jonathan A. Campbell. "A new species of blindsnake from Jalisco, Mexico (Squamata: Leptotyphlopidae)." Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 93 (February 16, 2022): 933933. http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/ib.20078706e.2022.93.3933.

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Marin, Julie, Stephen C. Donnellan, S. Blair Hedges, et al. "Tracing the history and biogeography of the Australian blindsnake radiation." Journal of Biogeography 40, no. 5 (2012): 928–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12045.

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Torres, J. A., R. Thomas, M. Leal, and T. Gush. "Ant and termite predation by the tropical blindsnake Typhlops platycephalus." Insectes Sociaux 47, no. 1 (2000): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s000400050001.

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