Leptotyphlopidae: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Leptotyphlopidae
- Genus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Leptotyphlopidae
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Leptotyphlopidae
The Leptotyphlopidae (commonly called slender blind snakes or thread snakes) are a family of small snakes found in North America, South America, Africa and Asia. All are fossorial and adapted to burrowing, feeding on ants and termites. Two subfamilies are recognized.
...Leptotyphlopidae in languages:
- Chinese
- 細盲蛇科
- Czech
- slepanovití
- Danish
- Trådslanger
- Dutch
- Draadwormslangen
- English
- Thread Snakes
- English
- Slender Blind Snakes
- English
- Slender Blindsnakes
- English
- Threadsnakes
- German
- Schlankblindschlangen
- Hebrew
- נימוניים
- Portuguese
- Cobras-cegas delgadas
- Russian
- Узкоротые змеи
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Acrochordidae
- Aniliidae
- Anomalepididae
- Anomochilidae
- Atractaspididae
- Boidae
- Bolyeriidae
- Colubridae
- Cyclocoridae
- Cylindrophiidae
- Elapidae
- Gerrhopilidae
- Homalopsidae
- Lamprophiidae
- Leptotyphlopidae
- Loxocemidae
- Micrelapsidae
- Pareidae
- Prosymnidae
- Psammophiidae
- Pseudaspididae
- Pseudoxyrhophiidae
- Pythonidae
- Tropidophiidae
- Typhlopidae
- Uropeltidae
- Viperidae
- Xenodermidae
- Xenopeltidae
- Xenophidiidae
- Xenotyphlopidae