Last night (12/18/08) after taking a showell to placate the prevailing heat, I heard my sister. PO, called me from the front of the house. She mentioned that was a "Cutuchi (Siphonops Paulensis) which came to the house. According to the virtual encyclopedia Wikipedia defines it as a kind of amphibious (...) which is in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay. Their natural habitat is tropical forests and savannas or subtropical dry, wet, dry shrubland, seasonally wet or flooded lowland pastures, plantations and rural gardens.
In front of my home, in the city of Santa Cruz (Bolivia), there is a vacant lot, the only one around the block, which can accommodate large numbers of vermin, rodents, insects, poisonous snakes and to small predators such as carachupa (opossum and weasel) and could be up and robbers and drug addicts, just for this lot is inhospitable to where I think these are bugs.
When I arrived saw that was this horrible reptile, and before the onslaught of my dog "Drago" decided to attack mooring. caté it was this disgusting animal I took a machete, but it was "muto" (not sharp), so she could only hit giving perhaps only pain. Even I took a brick, but in the darkness and the bushes are blending making it difficult to finish.
My Sister. asked my neighbor SV sharpening a machete, which could eventually kill the animal serpent, accurate after a direct hit on the head.
I learned after a quick investigation on the Web, is that this is known as "Caecilinas" or "blind snake." They are a kind of transition between worms and eels. Seem to have a head at each end, are between 12 and 35 cms. de large and 1 cm. wide. thick. They feed on larvae, termites, insects, etc.. There are different colors because there are some 50 varieties of it.
Classification
Genre: chordates
Sub-genre: vertebrate
Class: Gill
Order: Gymnophiona
Family: Caecilidae
In front of my home, in the city of Santa Cruz (Bolivia), there is a vacant lot, the only one around the block, which can accommodate large numbers of vermin, rodents, insects, poisonous snakes and to small predators such as carachupa (opossum and weasel) and could be up and robbers and drug addicts, just for this lot is inhospitable to where I think these are bugs.
When I arrived saw that was this horrible reptile, and before the onslaught of my dog "Drago" decided to attack mooring. caté it was this disgusting animal I took a machete, but it was "muto" (not sharp), so she could only hit giving perhaps only pain. Even I took a brick, but in the darkness and the bushes are blending making it difficult to finish.
My Sister. asked my neighbor SV sharpening a machete, which could eventually kill the animal serpent, accurate after a direct hit on the head.
I learned after a quick investigation on the Web, is that this is known as "Caecilinas" or "blind snake." They are a kind of transition between worms and eels. Seem to have a head at each end, are between 12 and 35 cms. de large and 1 cm. wide. thick. They feed on larvae, termites, insects, etc.. There are different colors because there are some 50 varieties of it.
Classification
Genre: chordates
Sub-genre: vertebrate
Class: Gill
Order: Gymnophiona
Family: Caecilidae