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Leptotyphlops conjunctus |
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Leptotyphlops nigricans |
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Cape Thread Snake |
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Body is cylindrical with a blunt head and a short tail. It looks more like a worm than a snake. No teeth in upper jaw. Eye is reduced to a black spot and snake is blind. Uniform brown-black above and below. Measures around 17 cm. |
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Savannas, grassland. |
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Burrow underground and are active night and day. They follow ants and termites to their nests and eat them. |
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Ants, termites, fleas. |
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Female lays 3 to 4 very small elongate eggs. |
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Warning :
This database was established according to official pieces of work and with the help of famous scientists. However, there might be some errors.
The vernacular names were collected in the field and in the colonial literature from the first part of the 20th century. The monks who established the first dictionaries were not necessarily informed naturalists. Therefore, errors must have been committed.
We invite everyone who could help us to improve this working tool to contact us in order to correct us and share her/his knowledge with us.
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