Blotched blind snake | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Typhlopidae |
Genus: | Afrotyphlops |
Species: | A. congestus
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Binomial name | |
Afrotyphlops congestus | |
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The blotched blind snake (Afrotyphlops congestus) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae. [1] [2] It is distributed from eastern Nigeria through much of Middle Africa to Uganda. [1] [2] It is a fossorial species that occurs in humid forests, and particularly in the east, in gallery forests. It feeds on ants and termites. [1]