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Wire snake or serpent worms (Indotyphlops braminus) is one of the world's smallest snake. The names in the English language is the common blindsnake, Brahminy blindsnake, flowerpot snake, snake bootlace. In the Java language it is known as ulo duwel.

Identification.

I. Braminus of Timor-Leste.

Snake wire minuscule stature, appear to sparkle like a small piece of black wire. The body length of up to 20 cm, but rarely longer than 15 cm. Instead mostly about 10 cm or less.
His body was black, black, brown, gray or bluish. Generally darker in the dorsal (back) and younger in the ventral side (belly). Its tail is very short and in the end there is a similar runcingan thorns. Sometimes both ends (heads and tails) younger or whitish color.
His eyes were hidden and only visible as dark spots vaguely behind her head scales. Therefore, in English known as a blind snake (snakes blind). The scales that cover the midsection arranged in 20 rows, very delicate and any similar form in the dorsal and ventral.

Habits and ecology.

This snake is very similar worm, both body size and behavior. Often found under furniture, behind potted plants and in the yard, under rocks and rotten wood, this snake immediately flounder like a worm when disturbed. But if one looks closely, seen this snake has shiny scales and skin was not slimy.
Snake wire fond of such places to hunt for prey in the form of eggs of ants, termites and various other small insects, caterpillars and earthworms. His mouth was so small, and just enough to swallow prey that is also very small. Therefore their thought-prejudice people that snakes wire including a kind of snake is very poisonous and can be fatal human beings are simply unfounded myths. These snakes are not even able to bite people.
These snakes are thought to breed in parthenogenesis, ie snake eggs to develop into individuals without fertilized by the male snake. This suspicion arises because all these snake specimens collected turned out to be identified with the female sex. Another kind of snake is also known to have the ability of parthenogenesis is a snake sack Papua (Acrochordus arafurae).
The habit of these snakes that live underground (fossorial), size is very small, and the ability partenogenesisnya, making it easy to wire snake is widespread; population can be achieved with only a single snake specimen carried in soil in potted plants.

Deployment.

The spread of this snake is very broad in Africa (Zanzibar, Tanzania, Mozambique, Somalia, Cameroon, Benin, Togo, Ivory Coast). Madagascar, the Comoro islands, Mascarenes, Seychelles, Mauritius, Reunion, Rodrigues.
Tropical Asia (Arabic, Persia, India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Indochina, southern China, southern Japan, Hongkong, Taiwan, the Philippines, the Malay Peninsula, and the islands in the Indian Ocean).
Pacific (Guam, Solomon, New Caledonia, Hawaii), Mexico, Guatemala and the West Indies.
In Indonesia snake wires spread across the archipelago.

The kind that are related.

There are some many other wire snake species from the genera Typhlops in western Indonesia, Cyclotyphlops in Acutotyphlops in Sulawesi and Papua. Close relatives snake wire, namely ramphotyphlops lineatus (Schlegel, 1839), has a body length of up to about 48 cm and spread from Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, Singapore, Sumatra, Nias, Kalimantan, Java, West and Central.

In addition to body shape, behavior typhlopidae reptiles of the family is also briefly looked like an earthworm. Often hide under rocks, debris, and rotten wood, behind a potted plant or home furnishings. When you feel disturbed, Snake Wire will be squirming like a worm.

Food Wire Snake is eggs of small animals such as ant eggs, egg termites and other insect eggs. Excluding snakes are venomous or dangerous for humans. Even with a very small mouth, Snake Wire can not bite humans.

The population is not known for certain, but allegedly still very common (not rare) in various places. Therefore, these reptiles are not listed in the IUCN Red List (IUCN Redlist). Nor is listed in CITES Appendix. In Indonesia too Snake Wire excluding protected animals.
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Publiushed Date: 07 February 2016 at 16:52