Long-bodies, limb-less coecilion, skin compact, roofed with bone, vertebrae many, ribs long skin smooth, provided with transverse furrows, both slime glands and squid glands are present in the skin. In some scales are embedded in the skin, while in other specialized genera, scales are lost.
Eyes are lidless, indistinct and hidden under the skin or in the bones of the skull. Males are provided with protrugible copulatory organs. Tail is short. Anus terminal. Burrowing life.
Examples:
Lehthyophis
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(ii) Gymnopis
(iii) Typholonectas
Ichthyic ophis glutinosa (Bond worm) is found in tropies. India to Philippines, Borneo, Java and Seychelles, East and West Africa, Mexico to Argentina, However, they are absent from Madagascar.