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Early Blind Snakes: Anomalepididae - Physical Characteristics, Geographic Range, Habitat, Behavior And Reproduction, Lesser Blind Snake (liotyphlops Ternetzii): Species Account - DIET, EARLY BLIND SNAKES AND PEOPLE, CONSERVATION STATUS

LESSER BLIND SNAKE (Liotyphlops ternetzii): SPECIES ACCOUNT

DIET

At least two species eat ant eggs, as well as ant larvae (LAR-vee) and pupae (PEW-pee), which are the life stages between the egg and the adult ant. Scientists suspect that other early blind snakes also eat ants and possibly other insects, but they have not studied them in enough detail to say for sure.

EARLY BLIND SNAKES AND PEOPLE

Early blind snakes and people rarely encounter one another.

CONSERVATION STATUS

These species are not listed as endangered or threatened. Like many other species that live much of their lives underground, however, scientists have little information about their numbers in the wild. In fact, scientists know about six of the sixteen species only from a few individuals caught in the area where the first ones were found, and they have not seen one species, the South American blind snake (Anomalepis aspinosus), since 1916.

Early Blind Snakes: Anomalepididae - Physical Characteristics

Early Blind Snakes: Anomalepididae - Geographic Range

Early Blind Snakes: Anomalepididae - Habitat

Early Blind Snakes: Anomalepididae - Behavior And Reproduction

Early Blind Snakes: Anomalepididae - Lesser Blind Snake (liotyphlops Ternetzii): Species Account

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