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Penis snakes' are moving into Florida: Several legless amphibians from South America
Posted on 7/31/21 at 3:35 pm
Posted on 7/31/21 at 3:35 pm
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An obscure, legless amphibian, colloquially referred to by some as a 'penis snake,' is the latest invasive species to make its way to South Florida.
Formally known as a caecilian, these creatures are native to Colombia and Venezuela, but several have been pulled from the Tamiami Canal near the Miami International Airport.
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Caecilians can range in size from a few inches to five feet long and have extremely poor eyesight - their name translates to 'blind ones' in Latin.
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The first caecilian that was found in the same canal two years ago allowed scientists to conduct a DNA comparison several other specimens recently pulled from the shallow water outside the Miami International Airport - proving the new creatures were of the Typhlonectes natans species.
The eel-like amphibian found in 2019 measured two feet long but died shortly after being taken into captivity – it starved itself to death.
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Caecilians live on both land and freshwater, and typically consume worms and termites – but they have been known to snatch small snakes, frogs and lizards, Wired reports.
Although they look more like snakes, caecilians belong to the Gymnophiona order of amphibians, more closely related to frogs, toads, salamanders and newts.
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Coleman Sheehy, Florida Museum's herpetology collection manager, said in a statement: 'Very little is known about these animals in the wild, but there's nothing particularly dangerous about them, and they don't appear to be serious predators.
Posted on 7/31/21 at 3:39 pm to tduecen
Motherfricker, you know better...
Posted on 7/31/21 at 3:40 pm to tduecen
DeSantis' America
- Hogballs
Posted on 7/31/21 at 3:40 pm to tduecen
Maybe all the pythons will eat them.
Or they will eat the iguanas.
Or they will eat the iguanas.
This post was edited on 7/31/21 at 3:41 pm
Posted on 7/31/21 at 3:41 pm to RummelTiger
Venezuelans must be hung like a motherfricker
Posted on 7/31/21 at 3:42 pm to TigerBait1971
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Venezuelans must be hung like a motherfricker
I hope so. It may be the only thing they ever have to call their own.
Posted on 7/31/21 at 3:44 pm to tduecen
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Caecilians live on both land and freshwater, and typically consume worms and termites
I’ll allow it
Posted on 7/31/21 at 4:00 pm to tduecen
For a second I thought this was about the fish that swin up your piss
Posted on 7/31/21 at 4:08 pm to tduecen
That's some nasty looking boudin.
Posted on 7/31/21 at 4:09 pm to RummelTiger
Rule 34. There's GOING to be porn of this, guaranteed.
Posted on 7/31/21 at 4:18 pm to tduecen
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it starved itself to death.
I think that is what mine is doing....
Posted on 7/31/21 at 4:22 pm to tduecen
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Penis snakes' are moving into Florida
Relax, I’m just here on vacation
Posted on 7/31/21 at 4:23 pm to TigerBait1971
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Venezuelans must be hung like a motherfricker
It’s a dictatorship.
The correct term is…hanged.
Posted on 7/31/21 at 5:16 pm to Ezra Reed
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I think that is what mine is doing....
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