Indotyphlops braminus (Daudin, 1803)

Fatihah-Syafiq, Muhamad, Badli-Sham, Baizul Hafsyam, Fahmi-Ahmad, Muhammad, Aqmal-Naser, Mohamad, Rizal, Syed Ahmad, Azmi, Mohd Shahrizan Azrul, Grismer, Larry L. & Ahmad, Amirrudin B., 2020, Checklist of herpetofauna in the severely degraded ecosystem of Bidong Island, Peninsular Malaysia, South China Sea, ZooKeys 985, pp. 143-162 : 143

Indotyphlops braminus (Daudin, 1803)

Notes.

This small fossorial snake resembles an earthworm and seems to occur largely in human settlements. It feeds on the larvae of ants and termites, and is known to be parthenogenic. One specimen was captured on surface debris at night on 2 April 2019 near MNRS. Its morphology matches the diagnosis of the species in Grismer (2006).

Distribution.

Indotyphlops braminus was recorded by Grismer et al. (2011) from Perhentian Besar Island.