Reptilia · Squamata
Indotyphlops combankWickramasinghe, Vidanapathirana, de Silva, Tennakoon, Samarakoon, Wickramasinghe, 2023
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A burrowing, meat-eating snake from the Oriental region, reaching 131 mm nose to tail.
No English name has been recorded for this species.
Reptilia › Squamata › Typhlopidae › Indotyphlops
- Grows to
- 131mm
- greatest recorded
- Eats
- Carnivorous
- Lives
- Fossorial
Longer than only 5% of all species in Typhlopidae anyone has measured.
The bar is the rank itself: its length is the share of the family this animal exceeds. The chart below is the family’s real spread, on a logarithmic scale because body length here runs from 91 to 950 mm. The solid rule is this animal. Every bar is a count of real species, and nothing on this figure is estimated.
What is known
15 sourced facts, each taken from a named scientific dataset. How to read these.
Cited from a dataset unless a row is marked otherwise.
Standing in the world
- Still living
- Extant
The animal itself
- Limbs
- None
Size
- Length snout to vent · greatest recorded
- 128mm5 in
- Length nose to tail · greatest recorded
- 131mm5.25 in
Wickramasinghe et al. 2023 (total length 94–131 mm, snout–vent length 91–128 mm)
snakes only in this source
How it lives
- Dietcomputed
- Carnivorous
- Where it livescomputed
- Fossorial
- Region
- Oriental
- Mainland or island
- Found only on islands
- Elevation · above sea level
- 80–90m
no actual data but can be imputed as carnivorous like all snakes
no actual data but can be imputed as fossorial like all scolecophidians
85 (Wickramasinghe et al. 2023)
Naming and history
- Suborder
- Serpentes
- Infraorder
- Scolecophidia
- Described by
- Wickramasinghe, Vidanapathirana, de Silva, Tennakoon, Samarakoon, Wickramasinghe
- Moved to another genus · since it was first described
- No
- Described in
- 2023
- Type locality
- Sri Lanka
Keeping one
20 in × 20 in × 12.5 in(51 × 51 × 32 cm)
Minimum length × width × height, for one animal. Bigger is always better. Substrate at least 2.5 in (6 cm) deep.
The standard sizes ground-dwelling species at 4 × 4 × 2.5 times snout-vent length.
Burrows, so substrate deep enough to dig in matters as much as floor area.
Mindestanforderungen an die Haltung von Reptilien (Sachverständigengutachten), German Federal Ministry for Nutrition, Agriculture and Forestry, Animal Welfare Division, 10 January 1997. The standard states these floor areas are recommendations rather than binding limits.
From this animal’s own snout-vent length of 5 in (128 mm), at 4 × 4 × 2.5 times it, following the German federal welfare standard — how this is worked out.
No preferred body temperature has been recorded for Indotyphlops combank. Rather than repeat a number from a care sheet, this page leaves it out.
Feeding
A prey item should be no wider than the space between the animal's eyes.
Widely used across reptile husbandry references. The stated reason is that the gap approximates the width of the throat, so wider prey is associated with impaction. This is established practice, not a measurement.
What nobody knows
These are not gaps in our research. No scientific dataset records them for this species — and saying so is information you cannot get from a reference that simply leaves a field out.
- — Length snout to vent · adult female mean
- — Length snout to vent · adult male mean
- — Length snout to vent · adult mean
- — Female length · mean, nose to tail
- — Length nose to tail · adult male mean
- — Length nose to tail · adult mean
- — Largest female · snout to vent
- — Largest male · snout to vent
- — Largest female · shell length
- — Largest male · shell length
- — Hatchling length · snout to vent
- — Hatchling length · nose to tail
- — Largest juvenile · snout to vent
- — Largest juvenile · shell length
- — Egg length
- — Egg width
- — Body mass · greatest
- — Body mass · a typical adult
- — Body mass · adult female, mean
- — Body mass at hatching
- — Longest recorded life
- — Preferred body temperature · chosen in a laboratory gradient
- — Body temperature when active · measured in the wild
- — Eats arthropods
- — Eats vertebrates
- — Eats plant matter
- — How it hunts
- — Active
- — Reproduction
- — How the young develop
- — Gestation or incubation
- — Average clutch
- — Smallest clutch recorded
- — Largest clutch recorded
- — Mean clutch · smallest reported
- — Mean clutch · largest reported
- — Clutches in a year
- — Clutches a year · fewest
- — Clutches a year · most
- — First breeds from · youngest recorded
- — First breeds by · oldest recorded
- — Hatchling length · smallest recorded
- — Hatchling length · largest recorded
- — Age at first breeding · female
- — Mature from · youngest recorded
- — Mature by · oldest recorded
- — Size at maturity · smallest recorded
- — Size at maturity · largest recorded
- — Venomous
- — Fangs
- — Body temp in the wild · lowest mean recorded
- — Body temp in the wild · highest mean recorded
- — Colour on the back
- — Pattern on the back
- — Pupil
- — Sex decided by
- — Conservation status
- — Status assessed · the year the Red List last looked
- — Population trend
- — Red List criteria
- — Biome
- — Active season · shortest recorded
- — Active season · longest recorded
- — Density · lowest recorded
- — Density · highest recorded
- — Home range · largest recorded
- — Subspecies
- — Habitat
- — Active in
- — Range size
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This species as JSON · the whole dataset
Cite this page
The Reptile & Amphibian Encyclopedia (2026). Indotyphlops combank. Retrieved 2026-09-08, from https://www.allanglescreatures.com/species/indotyphlops-combank
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title = {Indotyphlops combank},
author = {{The Reptile & Amphibian Encyclopedia}},
year = {2026},
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}Sources
- Meiri, S. (2024). SquamBase — a database of squamate (Reptilia: Squamata) traits. Global Ecology and Biogeography. Public domain (CC0).
- Catalogue of Life (dataset 3LR), used under CC BY.