Appearance
This species, like many of the others in this family, resembles a long earthworm. It lives underground in burrows, and since it has no use for vision, its eyes are mostly vestigial. The western blind snake is pink, purple, or silvery-brown in color, shiny, wormlike, cylindrical, and blunt at both ends, and has light-detecting black eyespots. The snake's skull is thick to permit burrowing, and it has a spine at the end of its tail that it uses for leverage. It is usually less than 30 cm in total length , and is as thin as an earthworm. This species and other blind snakes are fluorescent under low frequency ultraviolet light .On the top of the head, between the ocular scales, ''L. humilis'' has only one scale .
Naming
Western slender blind snake, western threadsnake, western blind snake....snipped...Habitat
The snake lives underground, sometimes as deep as 20 metres , and is known to invade ant and termite nests. Its diet is made up mostly of insects and their larvae and eggs. It is found in deserts and scrub where the soil is loose enough to work.References:
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