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Hoffstetter's Worm Snake

Madatyphlops cariei

Classification

Madatyphlops cariei, commonly known as Hoffstetter's blind snake, is an extinct blind snake species which was endemic to Mauritius. It is named for Paul Carié (1876–1930), an amateur naturalist attached to the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, who made excavations in Mare aux Songes around 1900 where the remains of this species were discovered. Description It is known only from seven fossil vertebrae from the middle region of the trunk, including two sets of connected vertebra and one isolated vertebra.

Distribution

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