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'''Leptotyphlops''' is a genus of non-venomous blind snakes found throughout North and South America, Africa and Asia, and almost any part of the world where the ground does not freeze solid in the winter. Currently, 86 species are recognized.

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Description

Behavior

Species

Cited references

External links

Description

Most 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.

Behavior

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.

Species

Species	Authority	Subsp. ★	Common name	Geographic range
''L. affinis''	(Boulenger, 1884)	0	Venezuela blind snake
''L. albifrons''	(Wagler, 1824)	0	Wagler's blind snake
''L. albipunctus''	(Jan, 1861)	0
''L. albiventer''	Hallermann & Rödel, 1995	0
''L. anthracinus''	Bailey, 1946	0	Bailey's blind snake
''L. asbolepis''	Thomas, McDiarmid & Thompson, 1985	0
''L. australis''	Freiberg & Orejas-Miranda, 1968	0	Freiberg's blind snake
''L. bicolor''	(Jan, 1860)	0	Two-colored blind snake
''L. bilineatus''	(Schlegel, 1839)	0	Two-lined blind snake
''L. blanfordii''	(Boulenger, 1890)	0
''L. borapeliotes''	Vanzolini, 1996	0
''L. borrichianus''	(Degerbl, 1923)	0	Degerbol's blind snake
''L. boulengeri''	(Boettger, 1913)	0	Manda flesh-pink blind snake
''L. brasiliensis''	Laurent, 1949	0	Brazilian blind snake
''L. bressoni''	Taylor, 1939	0	Michoacán slender blind snake
''L. brevicaudus''	(Bocage, 1887)	0
''L. brevissimus''	Shreve, 1964	0	Caqueta blind snake
''L. broadleyi''	Wallach & Hahn, 1997	0
''L. burii''	(Boulenger, 1905)	0	Arabian blind snake
''L. cairi''	(Duméril & Bibron, 1844)	0	Cairo blind snake
''L. calypso''	Thomas, McDiarmid & Thompson, 1985	0
''L. collaris''	Hoogmoed, 1977	0	Collared blind snake
''L. columbi''	Klauber, 1939	0	San Salvador blind snake
''L. conjunctus''	(Jan, 1861)	3	Cape thread snake
''L. cupinensis''	Bailey & Carvalho, 1946	0	Mata Grosso blind snake
''L. debilis''	(Chabanaud, 1918)	0	West African blind snake
''L. diaplocius''	Orejas-Miranda, 1969	0	Common Peru blind snake
''L. dimidiatus''	(Jan, 1861)	0	Dainty blind snake
''L. dissimilis''	(Bocage, 1886)	0	Sudan blind snake
''L. distanti''	(Boulenger, 1892)	0	Distant's blind snake
''L. drewesi''	Wallach, 1996	0
''L. dugandi''	Dunn, 1944	0	Dugand's blind snake
''L. dulcis''	(Baird & Girard, 1853)	2	Texas blind snake
''L. emini''	(Boulenger, 1890)	0
''L. filiformis''	(Boulenger, 1899)	0	Socotra Island blind snake
''L. fitzingeri''	(Jan, 1861)	0
''L. gestri''	(Boulenger, 1906)	0
''L. goudotii''	(Duméril & Bibron, 1844)	3	Black blind snake
''L. gracilior''	(Boulenger, 1910)	0	Slender thread snake
''L. guayaquilensis''	Orejas-Miranda & Peters, 1970	0	Guayaquila blind snake
''L. hamulirostris''	(Nikolsky, 1907)	0
''L. humilis''	(Baird & Girard, 1853)	8	Western threadsnake
''L. joshuai''	Dunn, 1944	0	Joshua's blind snake
''L. koppesi''	Amaral, 1955	0	Amaral's blind snake
''L. labialis''	(Sternfeld, 1908)	0	Damara thread snake
''L. leptepileptus''	Thomas, McDiarmid & Thompson, 1985	0
''L. longicaudus''	(Peters, 1854)	0	Long-tailed thread snake
''L. macrolepis''	(Peters, 1857)	0	Big-scaled blind snake
''L. macrops''	Broadley & Wallach, 1996	0
''L. macrorhynchus''	(Jan, 1860)	0	Longnosed worm snake
''L. macrurus''	(Boulenger, 1903)	0	Boulenger's blind snake
''L. maximus''	Loveridge, 1932	0	Giant blind snake
''L. melanotermus''	(Cope, 1862)	0	Latin American blind snake
''L. melanurus''	Schmidt & Walker, 1943	0	Dark blind snake
''L. munoai''	Orejas-Miranda, 1961	0
''L. narirostris''	(Peters, 1867)	1
''L. nasalis''	Taylor, 1940	0	Taylor's blind snake
''L. natatrix''	(Andersson, 1937)	0	Gambia blind snake
''L. nicefori''	Dunn, 1946	0	Santander blind snake
''L. nigricans''T	(Schlegel, 1839)	0	Black thread snake
''L. nursii''	(Anderson, 1896)	0	Nurse's blind snake
''L. occidentalis''	FitzSimons, 1962	0	Western thread snake
''L. perreti''	Wilhelm Roux-Estève, 1979	0
''L. peruvianus''	Orejas-Miranda, 1969	0	Peru blind snake
''L. pyrites''	Thomas, 1965	0	Thomas' blind snake
''L. reticulatus''	(Boulenger, 1906)	0	Reticulate blind snake
''L. rostratus''	(Bocage, 1886)	0	Bocage's blind snake
''L. rubrolineatus''	(Werner, 1901)	0	Red-lined blind snake
''L. rufidorsus''	Taylor, 1940	0	Rose blind snake
''L. salgueiroi''	Amaral, 1955	0	Espírito Santo blind snake
''L. scutifrons''	(Peters, 1854)	0	Peter's thread snake
''L. septemstriatus''	(Schneider, 1801)	0	Seven-striped blind snake
''L. signatus''	(Jan, 1861)	0	South American blind snake
''L. striatulus''	Smith & Laufe, 1945	0
''L. subcrotillus''	Klauber, 1939	0	Klauber's blind snake
''L. sundewalli''	(Jan, 1861)	0	Sundevalls worm snake
''L. teaguei''	Orejas-Miranda, 1964	0	Northern blind snake
''L. telloi''	Broadley & Watson, 1976	0	Tello's thread snake
''L. tesselatus''	(Tschudi, 1845)	0	Tschudi's blind snake
''L. tricolor''	Orejas-Miranda & Zug, 1974	0	Three-colored blind snake
''L. undecimstriatus''	(Schlegel, 1839)	0	Eleven-striped blind snake
''L. unguirostris''	(Boulenger, 1902)	0	Southern blind snake
''L. variabilis''	(Scortecci, 1928)	0
''L. vellardi''	Laurent, 1984	0
''L. weyrauchi''	Orejas-Miranda, 1964	0	Argentine blind snake
''L. wilsoni''	Hahn, 1978	0	Wilson's blind snake

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★ ) Not including the nominate subspecies (typical form).''

^T) Type species.

Cited references

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