The brown-snouted blind snake (''Anilios wiedii)'', also known commonly as Wied's blind snake, is a

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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. Ma ...

in the

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Typhlopidae The Typhlopidae are a family of blind snakes. They are found mostly in the tropical regions of Africa, Asia, the Americas, and all mainland Australia and various islands. The rostral scale overhangs the mouth to form a shovel-like burrowing str ...

. McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (1999). ''Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1''. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. (series). (volume). The species is

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Etymology

The specific name, ''wiedii'', is in honor of German naturalist

Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied Prince Alexander Philipp Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied (23 September 1782 – 3 February 1867) was a German explorer, ethnologist and naturalist. He led a pioneering expedition to southeast Brazil between 1815–1817, from which the album ''Reise na ...

Geographic range

''A. wiedii'' is found in the Australian states of

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Habitat

The preferred

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s of ''A. wiedii'' are

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and

savannas A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to reach the ground to ...

Description

''A. wiedii'' may grow to a total length (including tail) of . It is brownish

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, and yellowish ventrally. The snout is very prominent, rounded, with the nostrils inferior. There are 20 rows of scales around the body. The body is slender, about 50 times as long as broad. Boulenger GA (1893). ''Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families Typhlopidae ...'' London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I-XXVIII. (''Typhlops wiedii'', p. 36).

Reproduction

''A. wiedii'' is

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References

* Boulenger GA (1893). ''Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families Typhlopidæ ...'' London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I-XXVIII. (''Typhlops wiedii'', p. 36). * Cogger H (2014). ''Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition''. Collingwood, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing xxx + 1,033 pp. . (''Ramphotyphlops wiedii'', p. 812). * Hedges SB, Marion AB, Lipp KM, Marin J, Vidal N (2014). "A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata)". ''Caribbean Herpetology'' (49): 1-61. (''Anilios wiedii'', new combination). * Peters W (1867). "''Herpetologische Notizen'' ". ''Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin'' 1867: 13–37. (''Typhlops wiedii'', new species, pp. 24–25). (in German). * Wallach V (2006). "The Nomenclatural Status of Australian ''Ramphotyphlops'' (Serpentes: Typhlopidae)". ''Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society'' 42 (1): 8-24. (''Austrotyphlops wiedii'', new combination, p. 13). *

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