Epictia Ater

	Epictia Ater ''Epictia ater'', or black blind snake, is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae The Leptotyphlopidae (commonly called slender blind snakes or thread snakes) are a family of snakes found in North America, South America, Africa and Asia. All are fossorial and adapted to burrowing, feeding on ants and termites. Two subfamilies .... References Epictia Reptiles described in 1940 {{Scolecophidia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Snake Snakes are elongated, Limbless vertebrate, limbless, carnivore, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes . Like all other Squamata, squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping Scale (zoology), scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads (cranial kinesis). To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. Some species retain a pelvic girdle with a pair of vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca. Lizards have evolved elongate bodies without limbs or with greatly reduced limbs about twenty-five times independently via convergent evolution, leading to many lineages of legless lizards. These resemble snakes, but several common groups of legless lizards have eyelids and external ears, which snakes lack, altho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Leptotyphlopidae The Leptotyphlopidae (commonly called slender blind snakes or thread snakes) are a family of snakes found in North America, South America, Africa and Asia. All are fossorial and adapted to burrowing, feeding on ants and termites. Two subfamilies are recognized. Description Relatively small snakes, leptotyphlopids rarely exceed in length; only ''Trilepida macrolepis'' and ''Leptotyphlops occidentalis'' grow larger. The cranium and upper jaws are immobile and no teeth are in the upper jaw. The lower jaw consists of a much elongated quadrate bone, a tiny compound bone, and a relatively larger dentary bone. The body is cylindrical with a blunt head and a short tail. The scales are highly polished. The pheromones they produce protect them from attack by termites.''Field Guide to Snakes of Southern Africa'' - Bill Branch (Struik 1988) Among these snakes is what is believed to be the world's smallest: '' L. carlae'' ( Hedges, 2008). Hedges SB (2008). "At the lower size limit in sn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Epictia ''Epictia'' is a genus of snakes in the family Leptotyphlopidae. The genus is native to South America, Central America, and Mexico. Taxonomy Prior to 2009 all species of ''Epictia'' were placed in the genus ''Leptotyphlops''. Species The genus ''Epictia'' contains the following 44 species which are recognized as being valid: www.reptile-database.org. '' Epictia albifrons'' '' Epictia albipuncta'' '' Epictia alfredschmidti'' '' Epictia amazonica'' '' Epictia antoniogarciai'' '' Epictia ater'' '' Epictia australis'' – Freiberg's blind snake '' Epictia bakewelli'' – Bakewell's blind snake '' Epictia borapeliotes'' '' Epictia clinorostris'' '' Epictia columbi'' – San Salvador blind snake '' Epictia diaplocia'' – common Peru blind snake '' Epictia fallax'' '' Epictia goudotii'' '' Epictia guayaquilensis'' '' Epictia hobartsmithi'' '' Epictia magnamaculata'' '' Epictia martinezi'' '' Epictia melanura'' – dark blind snake '' Epictia mun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]