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Tetracheilostoma
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Tetracheilostoma

Leptotyphlops is a genus of nonvenomous blind snakes, commonly known as slender blind snakes and threadsnakes, found throughout North and South America, Africa, Indian subcontinent and southwestern Asia. Currently, 87 species are recognized.

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 3 known species

Two-lined Blind Snake

speciesTetracheilostoma bilineatum

Santa Lucía Threadsnake

speciesTetracheilostoma breuili

Barbados Threadsnake

speciesTetracheilostoma carlae

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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 92448.