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The Brahminy blind snake, Indotyphlops braminus, is a tiny, non-venomous snake that both looks and acts like a worm. And every single one of these snakes is female and a clone - and maybe also a hybrid.
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Sources:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-a-species/
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/florida-snake-id/snake/brahminy-blindsnake/
https://www.checflorida.org/post/brahminy-blindsnake-the-land-of-the-blind
https://incidentalnaturalist.com/2023/04/02/serpents-in-the-soil-brahminy-blind-snake/
https://nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu/hort/2025/04/10/the-brahminy-blind-snake/
https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/278705
https://podarcis.nl/Podarcis/VolumesNewSeriesUK/PodarcisUK_42.pdf
https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/HER_30_1_2_0069-0072.pdf
https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/Indotyphlops/braminus
https://www.jsuchanticleer.com/news/invasssssive-snake-found-by-jsu-student/article_6422005a-093b-5154-beb5-9e1782789c1b.html
https://singhallab.org/assets/docs/Fujita_etal_2020.pdf
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/11250008409439455
https://www.sare.org/publications/managing-alternative-pollinators/chapter-three-a-brief-natural-history-of-bees/haplodiploidy/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/chapter/referencework/abs/pii/B9780123749840011232
https://www.rbmojournal.com/article/S1472-6483(10)60684-0/pdf
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-a-species.html
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.171901#RSOS171901C13R
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/ploidy
https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-3-319-55065-7_2014
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2214070119
https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095916167
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13127-022-00577-5
https://www.yourgenome.org/theme/what-is-meiosis/
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt6477
https://www.cell.com/fulltext/S0092-8674(07)01340-2
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/chapter/edited-volume/abs/pii/B9780123741448002010
https://peerj.com/articles/16118/
https://doi.org/10.1159/000351593
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10530-009-9427-2
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Images:
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The Brahminy blind snake, Indotyphlops braminus, is a tiny, non-venomous snake that both looks and acts like a worm. And every single one of these snakes is female and a clone - and maybe also a hybrid.
Subscribe to the pin club here: https://complexly.store/products/bizarre-beasts-pin-subscription
This month's pin is designed by MarninSaylor. You can find out more about them and their work here: https://www.marninsaylor.com/
You can cancel any time by emailing hello@dftba.com
Follow us on socials:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bizarrebeastsshow/
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#BizarreBeasts #snake
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Sources:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-a-species/
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/florida-snake-id/snake/brahminy-blindsnake/
https://www.checflorida.org/post/brahminy-blindsnake-the-land-of-the-blind
https://incidentalnaturalist.com/2023/04/02/serpents-in-the-soil-brahminy-blind-snake/
https://nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu/hort/2025/04/10/the-brahminy-blind-snake/
https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/278705
https://podarcis.nl/Podarcis/VolumesNewSeriesUK/PodarcisUK_42.pdf
https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/HER_30_1_2_0069-0072.pdf
https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/Indotyphlops/braminus
https://www.jsuchanticleer.com/news/invasssssive-snake-found-by-jsu-student/article_6422005a-093b-5154-beb5-9e1782789c1b.html
https://singhallab.org/assets/docs/Fujita_etal_2020.pdf
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/11250008409439455
https://www.sare.org/publications/managing-alternative-pollinators/chapter-three-a-brief-natural-history-of-bees/haplodiploidy/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/chapter/referencework/abs/pii/B9780123749840011232
https://www.rbmojournal.com/article/S1472-6483(10)60684-0/pdf
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-a-species.html
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.171901#RSOS171901C13R
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/ploidy
https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-3-319-55065-7_2014
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2214070119
https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095916167
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13127-022-00577-5
https://www.yourgenome.org/theme/what-is-meiosis/
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt6477
https://www.cell.com/fulltext/S0092-8674(07)01340-2
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/chapter/edited-volume/abs/pii/B9780123741448002010
https://peerj.com/articles/16118/
https://doi.org/10.1159/000351593
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10530-009-9427-2
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Images:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11nWZ_-ZHiZA-S9S1mJ6mTLMeIwkcWorJ4BX7l3qnqSc/edit?tab=t.0
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