Trilepida

The genus Trilepida comprises small fossorial snakes with extremely reduced eyes and a cylindrical body covered in smooth scales. These features reflect advanced adaptation to life underground, where they carry out nearly all their activity.

They are non-venomous snakes with a calm disposition. Their diet consists mainly of ants, termites, and other small invertebrates, making them natural regulators of these populations. Encounters with humans are rare and usually accidental.

Ecologically, Trilepida plays a quiet but essential role in soil dynamics. Like other leptotyphlopids, it is more vulnerable to habitat degradation than to direct interaction with people.