0255: North-eastern Blindsnake
Ramphotyphlops polygrammicus
Tip of Cape York, Qld






  REPTILES
(Blindsnakes - Typhlopidae)
   
     
  The Australian Blindsnake story in all probability is not yet fully told. These small snakes spend most of their lives underground. The only known specimen of one recently discovered species came from a deep bore drill-casing, miraculously undamaged.


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