Yellowbelly worm-eating snake
Trachischium tenuiceps, also known as the yellowbelly worm-eating snake, is a species of colubrid snake found in South Asia and Tibet.
Oviparous animals are female animals that lay their eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother. This is the reproductive...
Precocial species are those in which the young are relatively mature and mobile from the moment of birth or hatching. Precocial species are normall...
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It is found in Nepal, Bangladesh, northeast India (Darjeeling, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh ) and Tibet.
