Colour is brown/purplish on top, with a light shade of pink on the belly.

The tail features a pointed tip which is a harmless spur.

Blind snakes move in a side-to-side motion on the ground, but underground they slither with tunnels made by insects.

[5] The species lives most of its life underground feeding on ants, termites and their larvae.

To find their food they flick their tongue to pick up the scent of an ant or termite trail and follow it back to the nest,[6] where they rake the ants into their mouth using their upper jaw and swallow the food whole.