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Blind snakes have a rostral scale that overhangs the mouth to form a shovel like burrowing structure. They live underground in burrows, and since they have no use for vision, their eyes are mostly vestigial. They have light-detecting black eyespots, and teeth occur in the upper jaw. The tail ends with a horn like scale. Most of these species are oviparous.This specimen is either Typhlops sp. or Ramphotyphlops sp. The coin is 25mm in diameter.
This spotting inside a house in a semi-urban situation with yards, gardens and a nearby disturbed patch of remnant forest.
A nocturnal and not infrequent visitor inside our house despite what the desription says (--see a previous spotting http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/699... ). They are very fast moving but cannot gain purchase on the smooth tile floor.
Leptotyphlops carlae is currently thought to be the smallest snake known - from the Barbados.
Thanks Wilson. Please see the last line of my description and the 4th comment from the bottom.
Hi S Frazier! This is the smallest snake in the world!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramphotyphl...
Thanks! Yes, as in the description, either Typhlops sp. or Ramphotyphlops sp. I don't know how to tell them apart (and I don't have a microscope ;-)
Thank you. I'm not familiar with the one you mention. Good luck in finding information about it.
Wow! I love it! I've also seen the water blind snake, but with fins-like structure on the tail. Is it right? May be I'm going ti search it again
Spotted on Feb 16, 2012
Submitted on Feb 16, 2012
