#1586 · 🦎 reptiles
Eurasian Blind Snake
🇳🇱 Wormslang ·Xerotyphlops vermicularis
📍 PG2C+VC4 District 10, Shiraz, Fars Province, Iran
📍 10500 Erdek/Balıkesir, Türkiye
📍 Респ. Дагестан, Россия, 368080
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Valentina Volkova · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Roberto Sindaco · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. © Bart · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Roberto Sindaco · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 5. © Dr. Nasser Halaweh · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Tigran Tadevosyan · CC BY 4.0
- 7. PG2C+VC4 District 10, Shiraz, Fars Province, Iran:© mobinkargarfard · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 10500 Erdek/Balıkesir, Türkiye:© Demir · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Респ. Дагестан, Россия, 368080:© Валерия Ковалева · CC BY 4.0
- 10. © hossein_nabizadeh · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Xerotyphlops vermicularis , the European blind snake , European worm snake , Eurasian blind snake , or Eurasian worm snake , is a species of snake in the genus Xerotyphlops. Despite its common name, the range of the European blind snake ranges from the Balkan Peninsula, the Aegean Islands, and Cyprus to Afghanistan. The common name refers to how it is the only blindsnake of the genus Typhlops naturally found in Europe.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 771 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Eurasian Blind Snake
- Nederlands
- Wormslang
- scientific name
- Xerotyphlops vermicularis
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Squamata
- family
- Typhlopidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 375
- sightings worldwide
- 771
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
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IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Typhlopidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 514727, Wikidata Q22984608, GBIF 9624852, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.