blind snake

[pyrodarknessanny]

well from time to time people bring in critters they fid in the yard or home asking what they are. more often than not the critters are half dead or all dead, like the decapitated white crown snake or a chwed out lizard of some sort. but today i got to see somwthing amazing.
a blind sanke, and it was unharmed too!, one of your sales reps brought it in with them this morning, she had found it in her house and her daughter was terrafied of it.
it was about 6 cm in length and a pinkish greay colour, and you could see it guts under its scales/skin. we decided to let it go in the garden as it would have died in her car. but it made my day. and would have to be the first ever blind snake ive seen in realy life.
unfortunatly i did not get a photo of it, as i only had my crappy cheep mobile phone with me at the time. but it was also very shiny.
any one got any idea what species it could have been?
all i know is that it was a bland snake.

[Fuscus]

telling one blind snake species from another is very difficult, generally you need to match the head scales and snout shape.
However Ramaphotyphlops proximus is one of the most common and widespread blind snake in eastern Australia

[pyrodarknessanny]

thanks for that, he looks alot like that first pic there. probable no big deal to a lot of folks but i thourght it was pritty cool to see one up close.

[Justdriftnby]

wrong thread
Sorry

[LILMUMMA_69]

i had a pet blind snake for about 2 yrz.. it was a gorgeous little thing but when they feel threatened they spray on you and it smells really bad...

[absinthe_616]

i had a pet blind snake for about 2 yrz.. it was a gorgeous little thing but when they feel threatened they spray on you and it smells really bad...

they spray? where from? like a skunk or something? how peculiar

[pyrodarknessanny]

yeah the intresting little things, one of the book i have (biology and evloution of australian snakes) has an intresting pic in it, apparently theres this one type of pland snake that has insane lanth hemipenis,

i dont know if that true or not, but its a wird pic.

[Fuscus]

they spray? where from? like a skunk or something? how peculiar

They sometimes give off a liquid that is really bad. I generally don't mind bad smells but one encounter with a blind snake had me gagging. I think it took four washes with Detol(?) to remove the smell