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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 ...

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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 ...

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Xerotyphlops etheridgei ''Xerotyphlops'' is a genus of snakes in the family Typhlopidae. Distribution The five species in this genus ''Xerotyphlops'' are found in the Palearctic.. www.reptile-database.org. Species The following species are recognized as being valid. * ...

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Xerotyphlops luristanicus ''Xerotyphlops'' is a genus of snakes in the family Typhlopidae. Distribution The five species in this genus ''Xerotyphlops'' are found in the Palearctic.. www.reptile-database.org. Species The following species are recognized as being valid. ...

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Xerotyphlops socotranus The Socotra worm snake (''Xerotyphlops socotranus'') is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae 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 ...

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Xerotyphlops syriacus ''Xerotyphlops'' is a genus of snakes in the family Typhlopidae. Distribution The five species in this genus ''Xerotyphlops'' are found in the Palearctic.. www.reptile-database.org. Species The following species are recognized as being valid. ...

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Xerotyphlops vermicularis ''Xerotyphlops vermicularis'', the European blind snake, European worm snake, Eurasian blind snake, or Eurasian worm snake, is a species of snake in the genus ''Xerotyphlops.'' Despite its common name, the range of the European blind snake rang ...

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in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Xerotyphlops''.

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