Blackish blind snake

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Blackish blind snake

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Typhlopidae
Genus: Anilios
Species:
A. nigrescens
Binomial name
Anilios nigrescens
(Gray, 1845)
Synonyms
  • Typhlops nigrescens
  • Typhlops rueppelli
  • Typhlops temminckii
  • Typhlops reginae
  • Typhlops polygrammicus nigrescens
  • Ramphotyphlops nigrescens
  • Typhlina polygrammica
  • Typhlina polygrammica nigrescens
  • Austrotyphlops nigrescens

The blackish blind snake (Anilios nigrescens) is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family native to south-eastern Australia.[2][3][4]

Description

It is a small

earthworms. Blind snakes move in a side-to-side motion on the ground, but underground they slither with tunnels made by insects.[5]

Diet

The species lives most of its life underground feeding on

larvae. To find their food they flick their tongue to pick up the scent of an ant or termite trail and follow it back to the nest,[6] where they rake the ants into their mouth using their upper jaw and swallow the food whole.[5]

References

  1. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T102873712A102873715.en
    . Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. ISBN 1-893777-01-4
    (volume).
  3. ^ "Ramphotyphlops". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  4. ^ Anilios nigrescens at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 29 July 2018.
  5. ^ a b Blind Snake by the Australian Museum
  6. S2CID 53165253
    .

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