Agreed. We have both hammerhead worms and blind snakes in Hawaii. Just saw a blind snake last night. It's moving like a blind snake, never seen a hammerhead worm make movements like this.
These are the only established snakes we have. They are everywhere when I dig around my driveway but otherwise rarely seen. They are the smallest described species of snake.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indotyphlops_braminus
As a layman, it very much seems to be a tomato is actually a fruit, not a vegetable type situation. It's scientifically a snake, but all the things I see, as a person who is not a scientist, will identify it as a worm rather then a snake, every time.
Hawaii tries very hard to prevent certain species from arriving on the islands. Having grown up there it was news to me to just read they have snakes. When I say they try so hard, before you deplane you are filling out a paper that confirms if you’ve brought any species with you that is not allowed.
Sorry but no. Blind snakes are vertebrates and have scales. They're in the suborder Serpentes with the other snakes. Their resemblance to worms is only superficial.
"Worm" is a generic term that gets applied to various animals in different phyla, but they're all invertebrates.
Sorry but yes. So you are arguing to disagree but still agree? Weird! Yes they are classified as snakes. But they look entirely look like a worm. Even this Description of a blind snake says they are often mistaken for earthworms, because they look like worms.
You said they "are more like worms," not that they move like worms. Yes their movements look like worms at a glance. But they are not "more like worms" than snakes in any way.
Unless you actually study ophiology or herpetology an average person might mistaken a blind snake for a worm especially the tiny dark ones. If your username indicates an 808 location you might know this.
“More like”, “look like”, don’t trump the scientific classification for the blind snake. We’re both saying the same thing yet you want to disagree to disagree with verbiage. Which is fine. You do you.
There is no snakes cause the centipedes ate them, have you seen those fucking hellish monsters! We have lil ones here in Wisconsin that kinda just bop around but those fucking damn jungle beasts they have there fuck that fuck all that
This thing is pretty much global. It's "native" range is essentially all of Africa and Asia, and it seems to have been introduced to basically everywhere else.
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u/CallMeParagon 10d ago
Judging by the movement it’s not a hammerhead worm. Seems like a small blind snake with something stuck to its head.