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Santa Lucía Threadsnake
Tetracheilostoma breuili
The St. Lucia threadsnake (Tetracheilostoma breuili) is a species of blind snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae. The species is native to the West Indies.
From the article St. Lucia threadsnake on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
T. breuili can reach a total length (including tail) of 119 mm (4.7 in). It is dark brown with two yellowish lateral stripes, like the closely related L. bilineatus (Martinique) and L. carlae (Barbados). It differs from those two species by having two spots behind its head, and a dark tail.
Range & habitat
The preferred natural habitat of T. breuili is forest, at altitudes of 40–60 m (130–200 ft).
Wikipedia: “Habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 113923.