Afrotyphlops congestus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Typhlopidae
- Genus
- Afrotyphlops
- Species
- Afrotyphlops congestus
- Scientific Name
- Afrotyphlops congestus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Blotched blind snake
The blotched blind snake (Afrotyphlops congestus) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae. It is distributed from eastern Nigeria through much of Middle Africa to Uganda. It is a fossorial species that occurs in humid forests, and particularly in the east, in gallery forests. It feeds on ants and termites.
...Afrotyphlops congestus in languages:
- English
- Blotched blind snake
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Afrotyphlops angolensis
- Afrotyphlops anomalus
- Afrotyphlops bibronii
- Afrotyphlops blanfordii
- Afrotyphlops brevis
- Afrotyphlops calabresii
- Afrotyphlops chirioi
- Afrotyphlops congestus
- Afrotyphlops cuneirostris
- Afrotyphlops elegans
- Afrotyphlops fornasinii
- Afrotyphlops gierrai
- Afrotyphlops kaimosae
- Afrotyphlops liberiensis
- Afrotyphlops lineolatus
- Afrotyphlops mucruso
- Afrotyphlops nanus
- Afrotyphlops nigrocandidus
- Afrotyphlops obtusus
- Afrotyphlops platyrhynchus
- Afrotyphlops punctatus
- Afrotyphlops rondoensis
- Afrotyphlops rouxestevae
- Afrotyphlops schlegelii
- Afrotyphlops schmidti
- Afrotyphlops steinhausi
- Afrotyphlops tanganicanus
- Afrotyphlops usambaricus