Aniliidae

Palci, Alessandro, Hutchinson, Mark N., Caldwell, Michael W., Smith, Krister T. & Lee, Michael S. Y., 2020, The homologies and evolutionary reduction of the pelvis and hindlimbs in snakes, with the first report of ossified pelvic vestiges in an anomalepidid (Liotyphlops beui), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 188, pp. 630-652 : 637

Aniliidae

A specimen of Anilius scytale (Linnaeus, 1758) figured by Fürbringer (1870: plate 3, fig. 45) has ossified anterior and dorsal elements in addition to the femur, and a cartilaginous ventral element; but a micro-CT-scanned specimen of the same species (SAMA R36774) reveals only a femur and an ossified anterior element (i.e. no ossified ventral or dorsal elements) ( Fig. 2Q). The same is true also of another radiographed specimen (ZFMK 47668). McDowell (1975) also mentions the presence of only a single pelvic element in Anilius .