Madatyphlops is a genus of snakes in the family Typhlopidae.
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Madatyphlops is a genus of snakes in the family Typhlopidae.
Madatyphlops may represent a surviving clade of the ancestral Typhlopidae, which are thought to have originated on Madagascar during the Cretaceous, before later dispersing to mainland Africa and then worldwide. This makes it, Xenotyphlops, and the Madagascan big-headed turtle the only Malagasy terrestrial vertebrates whose isolation on Madagascar is due to Gondwanan vicariance.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).