Blind snakes
Scolecophidia
The Scolecophidia, commonly known as blind snakes or thread snakes, are an infraorder of snakes. They range in length from 10 to 100 centimeters (4 to 40 inches). All are fossorial (adapted for burrowing). Five families and 39 genera are recognized. The Scolecophidia infraorder is most-likely paraphyletic (with the family Anomalepididae recovered with strong support as sister clade to the 'typical snakes').
5 branches of this group, most-observed first · about 479 known species
Typical Blind Snakes
familyTyphlopidae
Threadsnakes
familyLeptotyphlopidae
Dawn Blind Snakes
familyAnomalepididae
Indo-Malayan Blindsnakes
familyGerrhopilidae
Madagascar Blindsnakes
familyXenotyphlopidae
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 1629236.