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Fassifern Blind Snake

Anilios insperatus

Australia's Threatened Species Category

Critically Endangered

Listed since: 20/03/2023

IUCN's Threatened Species Category

Critically Endangered

Listed since: 12/06/2017

Population trend: Unknown

Other names: None

Priority species? No

The Australian government's Threatened Species Action Plan 2022-2032 selected over 100 priority species derived from consultation with threatened species experts and the wider community. While all species are important, focusing on a limited number of species can help target effort and resources so that outcomes can be achieved, measured and shared.

Description

This species is known from a single individual in the Fassifern Valley, in south-eastern Queensland found in 1992 in a cleared pasture, sheltering underneath a rock. Like other blind snakes detection of the species is probably difficult owing to their nocturnal and primarily underground habits.

Threats

The ongoing livestock farming and associated vegetation clearing, particularly near the known locality of where this individuals was found, is the likely cause to the continued decline in the condition and extent of suitable habitat for this species, leading to declines in shelter and prey availability.