Typhlopidae

The Typhlopidae (blind snakes) form a family Serpent S including/understanding 240 Espèce S divided into 6 kinds. These are primitive snakes of which all the scales are identical. They are size and length of a pencil, which was worth with many between-them the name of " Snake-minute " in reference to the Latin minutus which wants to say small. One finds them in the tropical areas of Africa, Asia and America. These digger snakes have a scale which overhangs the mouth to form a species of shovel enabling them to dig the humus of the ground. The eyes are covered of scale S and one finds teeth only on the upper jaw. The tail ends in a scale cornea. The majority of the species are oviparous animals. They are inoffensive for the man.

List kinds of this family

  • Acutotyphlops Wallach, 1995

  • Cyclotyphlops Bosch and Ineich, 1994
  • Ramphotyphlops Fitzinger, 1843
  • Rhinotyphlops Fitzinger, 1843
  • Typhlops Oppel, 1811
  • Xenotyphlops Wallach and Ineich, 1996

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