Blind Worm Snake
19 28 cm.
Blind worm snake. The tail is tipped with a small sharp spine and the eyes appear as dark spots beneath the head scales. This name is often given to blind snakes of the family typhlopidae. Blind snakes are often mistaken for earthworms.
Thread snake or worm snake leptotyphlops. Side of the head c. It is a myth that these snakes are venomous and deadly.
Wright the national audubon society collection photo researchers anomalepids early blind snakes and leptotyphlopids threadsnakes and wormsnakes are slender and species of both families are seldom more than 30 cm 12 inches long from snout to vent and grow to a maximum of 40 cm 16 inches in total length. 11 species have been moved to the genus trilepida and other species have been moved to the genera epacrophis epictia mitophis myriopholis namibiana rena siagonodon tetracheilostoma and tricheilostoma. Adults usually are less than 25 cm 10 inches long.
Anomalepids are found in the new world tropics. Daudin 1803 synonyms. Underside of the head chin and throat d.
These snakes are non venomous and harmless. Indotyphlops braminus commonly known as the brahminy blind snake and other names is a nonvenomous blind snake species found mostly in africa and asia but has been introduced in many other parts of the world. Here in thailand it is a pervasive myth.
Brahminy blind snake non venomous burrowing snake native to southeast asia. They are small worm like burrowing snake pink or grey in colour and have a forked tongue and smooth scales around their bodies no broad belly scales that allow them to travel through soil. They cannot bite and have limited defensive capabilities.
The family only contains 15 species and it is sometimes not even considered included with the other two families because anomalepids completely lack pelvic girdles. The american worm snake carphophis amoena of the eastern united states of the family colubridae is brown or blackish with a pink belly. The blind snakes are small worm like burrowers.
The brahminy blind snake is a non native species from southeastern asia it was first reported in florida in 1983 and has now been found from key west in the florida keys north throughout most of the peninsula and west in leon county in the panhandle. Blind snake blind worm cricket snake eastern ground snake eastern twig snake little red snake milk snake thunder snake. Brahminy blind snakes are parthenogetic can spawn young without males.
Very common non venomous snakes which are in nearly every country across the world. The genus is endemic to and found throughout africa. The blind snake ramphotyphlops braminus can easily be confused with a worm by an unknowing person.
Worm snake any of various harmless burrowing snakes of wormlike appearance. 7 5 11 in.
