Xenotyphlops

Xenotyphlops is a species-poor snake genus of the superfamily of blindsnakes ( Typhlopoidea ). The genus was described in 1996 by Wallach & Ineich. Nicolas Vidal and colleagues presented the genus in 2010 in the mono- generic family Xenotyphlopidae. The two Xenotyphlops species occur in Madagascar.

Features

Like all blindsnakes are the Xenotyphlops types of small worm-like snakes 15 to 30 centimeters in body length, which live underground. They are non-pigmented and her body has on the full length of the same diameter. They differ from the blind snakes through an almost circular and greatly enlarged rostral scale, as viewed from the side is almost vertical, as well as a single, enlarged anal scutum. Visible eyes absent, as are the Präocularia, a scale in front of the eye. Among all blindsnakes Xenotyphlops missing the only genus which Tracheallunge. Another feature of the large gap between the heart and the liver piece.

System

American Blind Snakes ( Anomalepidae )

Slender Blind Snakes ( Leptotyphlopidae )

Gerrhopilidae

Xenotyphlopidae

Blind Snakes ( Typhlopidae )

The Xenotyphlopidae are the sister group of blind snakes ( Typhlopidae ).

There are only known in two ways:

• Xenotyphlops grandidieri ( Mocquard, 1905)
• Xenotyphlops mocquardi gelding, Mercurio & Andreone, 2007