#Worm snake

[herpsandbirds]

Reticulated Worm Snake (Amerotyphlops reticulatus), family Typhlopidae, Amazonian Peru

photograph by A. Giardenelli

[souplover-69]

worm snake!!

[critter-of-the-day]

14th of September 2024: Eurasian Blind Snake

Believe it or not, it is still Snake Saturday, though this time with the Eurasian Blind Snake (Xerotyphlops vermicularis). Snakes are divided into two infraorders true snakes (Alethinophidia) and wormsnakes (Scolecophidia). The Eurasian Blind Snakes belong to the latter, and are in fact the only wormsnakes native to Europe [1].

They are burrowing snakes, and are generally found in open areas with sparse vegetation [2]. This has included being beneath stones at both the base and the top of a mountain [3], under stone fragments within the city walls of a castle [4], in a garden house, and in a bed in someone’s house [5]. They were originally discovered in Greece [3], but have since been found as far east as Tajikistan [2].

They are around 20-30 cm in length [4, 5]. Aside from all of the locations above, they have also been found in termite mounds and ants nests [2]. Unsurprisingly, they mostly eat ants and other small invertebrates [3]. They may also be found in holes pre-burrowed by actual worms [2].

Their labelling has been home to other species as well in the past, including some such as X. syriacus that were synonymised and then subsequently desynonymised (a process which isn’t helped when the museum holding the original specimen is destroyed in a bombing in World War II). Even now, the high genetic diversity within the Eurasian Blind Snake leaves suspicions open that there may be several species hiding under this name [6].

Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [Image]

[forestfeeling]

Wild & wonderful!

[bucephaly]

Look at this tiny guy

[butter-on-ghost]

I’ve been trying to figure out what this certain kind of snake is called (below)

At first I looked up wormsnakes, thinking that’s what they were because I wanted to make a naga based off of them

and I drew a naga based off the worm snakes

But they didn’t look right >:[ (worm snakes are more snakelike compared to blind snakes) so I looked up snakes that look like worms and found blind snakes :D

and redesigned the little guy ^-^

Super random but yeah :D

[paradiscake]

Peter Capaldi in The Lair of White Worms looks like he's about to say "Otacon stands for Otaku Convention."

[cupcakeshakesnake]

If not me, someone else would have done it

[troutreznor]

caecilian mothers and their babies / photographed by Carlos Jared [X/X]

[delphina2k]

Noodle Identification Chart  (print)

[lonelyzarquon]

Peter Capaldi as Angus Flint THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM (1988) dir. Ken Russell

[herpsandbirds]

Western Thread Snake aka Western Worm Snake (Namibiana occidentalis), family Leptotyphlopidae, southern Angola

photograph by Johan Marais

[tamblerdraws]

I hath finally drawn it

(Also sorry for the crappy quality I had to screen record my drawing and then edit the video and crop it so that it’ll look like jimmy just appears out of thin air)

@raylaismad

[mouselikesclowns]

I felt my brain expand when I decided his tail would do that as a warning plus make it similar to his hat since centipedes bottom halves match their head.

[sesamenom]

Evil finrod, because he is unusually snake-coded for a protagonist

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