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Typhlops Mirus
Jan's worm snake (''Gerrhopilus mirus'') is a species of 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. Ma ... in the Gerrhopilidae family.McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré, 1999. ''Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1'' References Gerrhopilus Reptiles described in 1860 {{Scolecophidia-stub ...
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''Tantilla'' is a large genus of harmless New World snakes in the family Colubridae. The genus includes 66 species, which are commonly known as centipede snakes, blackhead snakes, and flathead snakes.Wilson, Larry David. 1982. Tantilla.' Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. 303:1-4.Wilson, Larry David, and Vicente Mata-Silva. 2015. A checklist and key to the snakes of the Tantilla clade (Squamata: Colubridae), with comments on taxonomy, distribution, and conservation.' Mesoamerican Herpetology 2: 418–498. Description ''Tantilla'' are small snakes, rarely exceeding 20 cm (8 inches) in total length (including tail). They are generally varying shades of brown, red or black in color. Some species have a brown body with a black head. Behavior ''Tantilla'' are nocturnal, secretive snakes. They spend most of their time buried in the moist leaf litter of semi-forested regions or under rocks and debris. Di ...
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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 ...
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Gerrhopilidae
The Gerrhopilidae (Indo-Malayan blindsnakes) are a family of blindsnakes that contains at least 16 species in the genus ''Gerrhopilus'', and possibly others (the genus '' Cathetorhinus'' and the species known as either ''Malayotyphlops manilae'', ''Gerrhopilus manilae'', or ''Typhlops manilae'') as well. These blindsnakes are found in India (including the Andaman Islands), Sri Lanka, Nepal, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia (including Java, Ternate, Sulawesi, Halmahera, Waigeu, Salawati, Irian Jaya, and Bali), and Papua New Guinea. These blindsnakes were considered to be part of the family Typhlopidae and were formerly known as the ''Typhlops ater'' species group. In 2010, they were discovered to be distantly related to other typhlopids and separated into their own family. Gerrhopilidae, Xenotyphlopidae, and Typhlopidae are grouped together in the superfamily Typhlopoidea to emphasize their closer relationship to one another than to the other two families of scolecophidians ( ...
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Gerrhopilus
''Gerrhopilus'' is a genus of snakes in the family Gerrhopilidae. Geographic range The 23 species of the genus ''Gerrhopilus'' are found in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Melanesia. Species *'' Gerrhopilus addisoni'' *'' Gerrhopilus andamanensis'' *'' Gerrhopilus ater'' *'' Gerrhopilus beddomii'' *'' Gerrhopilus bisubocularis'' *'' Gerrhopilus ceylonicus'' *'' Gerrhopilus depressiceps'' *'' Gerrhopilus eurydice'' *'' Gerrhopilus floweri'' *'' Gerrhopilus fredparkeri'' *'' Gerrhopilus hades'' *'' Gerrhopilus hedraeus'' *'' Gerrhopilus inornatus'' *'' Gerrhopilus lestes'' *'' Gerrhopilus manilae'' *'' Gerrhopilus mcdowelli'' *'' Gerrhopilus mirus'' *'' Gerrhopilus oligolepis'' *'' Gerrhopilus persephone'' Kraus, Fred (2017). "New Species of Blindsnakes (Squamata: Gerrhopilidae) from the offshore islands of Papua New Guinea". ''Zootaxa'' 4299 (1): 075-094. *'' Gerrhopilus sumatranus'' *'' Gerrhopilus suturalis'' *'' Gerrhopilus thurstoni'' *'' Gerrhopilus tind ...
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