Key Identification Features
- It has a distinct keel, or ridge, running along the top of its body.
- It usually has 120 or more ventral scales arranged in a paired series; these ventral scales are much larger than the adjacent body scales.
- The species has little to no distinct body pattern, apart from oblique dark lines that converge along the mid-dorsal line.
- Several morphological and feeding features make this genus similar to sympatric blind snakes of the family Typhlopidae.
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