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Xenotyphlops is an ancient group that diverged from other blind snakes during the Cretaceous, following the separation of Madagascar from India.On the newly-isolated Madagascar, the ancestral Xenotyphlopidae and Typhlopidae diverged from one another; Typhlopidae dispersed worldwide from Madagascar while leaving behind a single Malagasy genus (Madatyphlops), while the Xenotyphlopidae remained ...
A Field Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar, Third Edition. Cologne, Germany: Vences & Glaw Verlag. 496 pp. ISBN 978-3929449-03-7. Mocquard F (1905). "Note préliminaire sur une collection de Reptiles et de Batraciens offerte au Muséum par M. Maurice de Rothschild". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 11 (5): 285 ...
All species in the family Typhlopidae are fossorial and feed on social fossorial invertebrates such as termites and ants. The tracheal lung is present and chambered in all species. One species, the Brahminy's blind snake, is the only unisexual snake, with the entire population being female and reproducing via parthenogenesis.
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The Scolecophidia, commonly known as blind snakes or thread snakes, [2] are an infraorder [2] of snakes. [3] They range in length from 10 to 100 centimeters (4 to 40 inches). All are fossorial (adapted for burrowing). [ 4 ]
Typhlops is a genus of blind snakes in the family Typhlopidae. The genus is endemic to the West Indies . [ 1 ] Some species which were formerly placed in the genus Typhlops have been moved to the genera Afrotyphlops , Amerotyphlops , Anilios , Antillotyphlops , Argyrophis , Cubatyphlops , Indotyphlops , Letheobia , Madatyphlops , Malayotyphlops ...
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The Gerrhopilidae (Indo-Malayan blindsnakes) are a family of blindsnakes that contains at least 16 species in the genus Gerrhopilus, and possibly others (the genus Cathetorhinus [1] and the species known as either Malayotyphlops manilae, Gerrhopilus manilae, or Typhlops manilae) [2] as well. [3]