Leptotyphlops

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Leptotyphlops

Western Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops humilis

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Leptotyphlopidae
Genus:	Leptotyphlops Fitzinger, 1843

Synonyms

Glauconia
(Gray, 1845)

Leptotyphlops is a large genus of around 100 species of snakes commonly known as blind snakes, thread snakes and worm snakes. They are found through North and South America, Africa and Asia, almost any part of the world where the ground does not freeze solid in the winter.

1 Description
2 Behaviour
3 Species
4 References

[edit] Description

Most Leptotyphlops species look much like shiny earthworms. They are a pink or brown coloration, and their scales give them a segmented appearance. Other species are black in color, but have the same general body structure. Their common name comes from the fact that their eyes are greatly reduced almost to the point of uselessness, and hidden behind a protective head scale. The thread snake species are so named because of their very narrow, long bodies.

[edit] Behaviour

Blind snakes are all burrowing snakes, spending most of their time deep in loose soil, typically only emerging when it rains and they get flooded out. Their primary diet is ant and termite larvae.

[edit] Species

Western Blind Snake, Leptotyphylops humilis

Leptotyphlops adleri (Hahn & Wallach, 1998)
Leptotyphlops aethiopicus Broadley & Wallach, 2007
Venezuela Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops affinis (Boulenger, 1884)
Wagler's Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops albifrons (Wagler, 1824)
Leptotyphlops albipuncta (Jan, 1861)
Leptotyphlops albiventer (Hallermann & Rödel, 1995)
Leptotyphlops alfredschmidti (Lehr, Wallach, Köhler & Aguilar, 2002)
Leptotyphlops algeriensis (Jacquet, 1895)
Bailey's Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops anthracinus (Bailey, 1946)
Leptotyphlops asbolepis (Thomas, McDiarmid & Thompson, 1985)
Freiberg's Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops australis (Freiberg & Orejas-Miranda, 1968)
Two-colored Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops bicolor (Jan, 1860)
Two-lined Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops bilineatus (Schlegel, 1839)
Leptotyphlops bilineata
Leptotyphlops blanfordi (Boulenger, 1890)
Leptotyphlops borapeliotes (Vanzolini, 1996)
Degerbol's Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops borrichianus (Degerbol, 1923)
Leptotyphlops boueti (Chabanaud, 1917)
Manda Flesh-pink Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops boulengeri (Boettger, 1913)
Brazilian Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops brasiliensis (Laurent, 1949)
Michoacán Slender Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops bressoni (Taylor, 1939)
Caqueta Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops brevissimus (Shreve, 1964)
Leptotyphlops broadleyi (Wallach & Hahn, 1997)
Arabian Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops burii (Boulenger, 1905)
Cairo Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops cairi (Duméril & Bibron, 1844)
Leptotyphlops calypso (Thomas, McDiarmid & Thompson, 1985)
Collared Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops collaris (Hoogmoed, 1977)
San Salvador Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops columbi (Klauber, 1939)
Cape Thread Snake, Leptotyphlops conjunctus (Jan, 1861)
Mata Grosso Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops cupinensis (Bailey & Carvalho, 1946)
West African Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops debilis (Chabanaud, 1918)
Common Peru Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops diaplocius (Orejas-Miranda, 1969)
Dainty Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops dimidiatus (Jan, 1861)
Sudan Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops dissimilis (Bocage, 1886)
Distant's Thread Snake, Leptotyphlops distanti (Boulenger, 1892)
Leptotyphlops drewesi (Wallach, 1996)
Dugand's Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops dugandi (Dunn, 1944)
Texas Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops dulcis (Baird & Girard, 1853)

Texas Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops dulcis

Leptotyphlops emini (Boulenger, 1890)
Socotra Island Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops filiformis (Boulenger, 1899)
Black Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops goudotii (Duméril & Bibron, 1844)
Slender Thread Snake, Leptotyphlops gracilior (Boulenger, 1910)
Leptotyphlops greenwelli (Wallach & Boundy, 2005)
Guayaquila Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops guayaquilensis (Orejas-Miranda & Peters, 1970)
Leptotyphlops howelli Broadley & Wallach, 2007
Western Threadsnake, Leptotyphlops humilis (Baird & Girard, 1853)
Leptotyphlops ionidesi Broadley & Wallach, 2007
Leptotyphlops jacobseni (Broadley & Broadley, 1999)
Joshua's Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops joshuai (Dunn, 1944)
Leptotyphlops keniensis Broadley & Wallach, 2007
Amaral's Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops koppesi (Amaral, 1955)
Damara Thread Snake, Leptotyphlops labialis (Sternfeld, 1908)
Leptotyphlops leptipilepta (Thomas, McDiarmid & Thompson, 1985)
Long-tailed Thread Snake, Leptotyphlops longicaudus (Peters, 1854)
Big-scaled Blind Lizard, Leptotyphlops macrolepis (Peters, 1857)
Leptotyphlops macrops (Broadley & Wallach, 1996)
Longnosed Worm Snake, Leptotyphlops macrorhynchus (Jan, 1860)
Boulenger's Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops macrurus (Boulenger, 1899)
Giant Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops maximus (Loveridge, 1932)
Leptotyphlops mbanjensis Broadley & Wallach, 2007
Latin American Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops melanotermus (Cope, 1862)
Dark Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops melanurus (Schmidt & Walker, 1943)
Leptotyphlops munoai (Orejas-Miranda, 1961)
Leptotyphlops narirostris (Peters, 1867)
Taylor's Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops nasalis (Taylor, 1940)
Gambia Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops natatrix (Andersson, 1937)
Santander Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops nicefori (Dunn, 1946)
Black Thread Snake, Leptotyphlops nigricans (Schlegel, 1839)
Leptotyphlops nigroterminus Broadley & Wallach, 2007
Nurse's Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops nursii (Boulenger, 1896)
Western Thread Snake, Leptotyphlops occidentalis (Fitzsimons, 1962)
Leptotyphlops parkeri (Broadley, 1999)
Leptotyphlops pembae Loveridge, 1941
Leptotyphlops perreti (Roux-Estéve, 1979)
Peru Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops peruvianus (Orejas-Miranda, 1969)
Phillips' Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops phillipsi (Barbour, 1914)
Leptotyphlops pungwensis (Broadley & Wallach, 1997)
Thomas' Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops pyrites (Thomas, 1965)
Reticulate Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops reticulatus (Boulenger, 1906)
Bocage's Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops rostratus (Bocage, 1886)
Red-lined Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops rubrolineatus (Werner, 1901)
Rose Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops rufidorsus (Taylor, 1940)
Espírito Santo Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops salgueiroi (Amaral, 1955)
Peter's Thread Snake, Leptotyphlops scutifrons (Peters, 1854)
Seven-striped Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops septemstriatus (Schneider, 1801)
South American Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops signatus (Jan, 1861)
Leptotyphlops striatula (Smith & Laufe, 1945)
Klauber's Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops subcrotillus (Klauber, 1939)
Sundevalls Worm Snake, Leptotyphlops sundewalli (Jan, 1862)
Forest Thread Snake, Leptotyphlops sylvicolus (Broadley & Wallach, 1997)
Leptotyphlops tanae Broadley & Wallach, 2007
Northern Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops teaguei (Orejas-Miranda, 1964)
Tello's Thread Snake, Leptotyphlops telloi (Broadley & Watson, 1976)
Guyana Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops tenellus (Klauber, 1939)
Tschudi's Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops tesselatus (Tschudi, 1845)
Three-colored Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops tricolor (Orejas-Miranda & Zug, 1974)
Eleven-striped Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops undecimstriatus (Schlegel, 1839)
Southern Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops unguirostris (Boulenger, 1902)
Leptotyphlops vellardi (Laurent, 1984)
Argentine Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops weyrauchi (Orejas-Miranda & Zug, 1964)
Wilson's Blind Snake, Leptotyphlops wilsoni (Hahn, 1978)