🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Eurasian Blind Snake live?

Xerotyphlops vermicularis has 1,658 records in 23 countries and territories, from 1887 to 2026. Most records come from Greece.

Eurasian Blind Snake
Eurasian Blind Snake — Photo: ImagesFromBulgaria.com · CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataSquamataTyphlopidaeXerotyphlops

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18872026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Greece 423
Bulgaria 401
Israel 224
Turkmenistan 166
Türkiye 114
Russia 85
Armenia 54
Georgia 47
Cyprus 41
Iran 34
Albania 20
Lebanon 8
Tajikistan 7
Iraq 6
North Macedonia 6
Syria 6
Azerbaijan 3
Germany 3
Montenegro 3
Uzbekistan 3
Egypt 2
DR Congo 1
ZZ 1

Related animals

Others in the family Typhlopidae.

Hispaniola Worm Snake
2,854 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.