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Christmas Island Blind Snake
Ramphotyphlops exocoeti
The Christmas Island blind snake (Ramphotyphlops exocoeti) is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae. The species is endemic to Christmas Island. There are no subspecies that are recognized as being valid.
From the article Christmas Island blind snake on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
R. exocoeti may attain a total length of 35 cm (14 in), which includes a tail 8 cm (3.1 in) long.
Range & habitat
R. exocoeti is only found on Christmas Island (Australia). The type locality given is "Christmas Island, Indian Ocean".
Wikipedia: “Geographic range”
In human culture
The specific name, exocoeti, which means "flying fish", is in honor of the officers of HMS Flying Fish, who collected the holotype.
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Ramphotyphlops exocoeti in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 32786.