Family Leptotyphlopidae (Thread Snakes):
countries with most species

© Rune Midtgaard
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*Countries with same number of species are ranked alphabetically
Rank* Country Species
No. 1
Peru
19
No. 2
Brazil
18
No. 3
Mexico
17
No. 4
Kenya
14
No. 5
Tanzania
12
No. 6
South Africa
10
No. 7
Argentina
9
No. 8
Colombia
9
No. 9
Mali
8
No. 10
Mozambique
7
No. 11
Somalia
7
No. 12
Venezuela
7
No. 13
Yemen
7
No. 14
Bolivia
6
No. 15
Chad
6
No. 16
Ecuador
6
No. 17
Ethiopia
6
No. 18
Surinam
6
No. 19
Angola
5
No. 20
Burkina Faso
5
No. 21
Cameroon
5
No. 22
Eswatini
5
No. 23
French Guiana [France]
5
No. 24
Ghana
5
No. 25
Namibia
5
No. 26
Niger
5
No. 27
Nigeria
5
No. 28
Paraguay
5
No. 29
Zambia
5
No. 30
Congo-Kinshasa
4
No. 31
Guinea
4
No. 32
Guinea-Bissau
4
No. 33
Guyana
4
No. 34
Honduras
4
No. 35
Ivory Coast
4
No. 36
Malawi
4
No. 37
Rwanda
4
No. 38
Senegal
4
No. 39
Sudan
4
No. 40
USA
4
No. 41
Central African Republic
3
No. 42
Dominican Republic
3
No. 43
Egypt
3
No. 44
Eritrea
3
No. 45
Gambia
3
No. 46
Mauritania
3
No. 47
Saudi Arabia
3
No. 48
Socotra Archipelago [Yemen]
3
No. 49
Togo
3
No. 50
Zimbabwe
3
No. 51
Barbados
2
No. 52
Benin
2
No. 53
Botswana
2
No. 54
Burundi
2
No. 55
El Salvador
2
No. 56
Equatorial Guinea
2
No. 57
Haiti
2
No. 58
Iran
2
No. 59
Israel
2
No. 60
Jordan
2
No. 61
Oman
2
No. 62
Pakistan
2
No. 63
Panama
2
No. 64
South Sudan
2
No. 65
Uganda
2
No. 66
Afghanistan
1
No. 67
Algeria
1
No. 68
Bahamas
1
No. 69
Belize
1
No. 70
Bonaire [Netherlands]
1
No. 71
Congo-Brazzaville
1
No. 72
Costa Rica
1
No. 73
Gabon
1
No. 74
Guatemala
1
No. 75
India
1
No. 76
Iraq
1
No. 77
Lesotho
1
No. 78
Libya
1
No. 79
Martinique [France]
1
No. 80
Morocco
1
No. 81
Nicaragua
1
No. 82
Saint Lucia
1
No. 83
Trinidad & Tobago
1
No. 84
Tunisia
1
No. 85
Turkey
1
No. 86
United Arab Emirates
1
No. 87
Uruguay
1
No. 88
Western Sahara
1