India's smallest snake

Brahminy blind snake

This snake is the smallest snake of india ,its scientific name is Indotyphlops braminus and commonly  it is called brahminy snake . This species is also found in other countries but there its name is different .

Brahminy snake in my home 

These snakes are very small .there length is 4to 5 cm ,very few are longer than 5 cm.They are of chocolate brown , yellowish browncolours and some are of grey colour .

     

They are totally blind snake and are nonvenomous snakes,they live in burrows and feed larvae ,eggs and pupae of and or other insects.

  They can be seen near by homes and in gardens and people sometimes confuse them with earthworms .They look like earthworms but there are many differences between them You

 can easily recognise them -       

* By there skin
Snakes skin is  shiny and it has scales and in earthworm there are segments 8n there skin and in this snake same scales are found throughout the body as you know that different scales are found in head of snakes from body .     

* Citellum 
In earthworms in 14th segments of body there are male and female gonopore and you can easily see them  which is not found in snakes.
* Snakes crawl quicker than earthworms and there is difference in crawling of them as you can observe .

If you see these snakes near by your home or anywhere please don't killer them,observe them and know more about them or gently throw them in gardens or outside.
     If you have any questions please comment .
                  Thankyou!