The Creature
What this very rare and unusually creature is called the Atretochoan eiselti, also known as the "Penis Snake". This species is the largest of the few known tetra pods, and one of two caecilians, to lack lungs. Its eye sight is very bad so it relays on its sense of smell to navigate to places,
The biggest Atretochoan eiselti we found is a female and it weights 570 grams and length up to a meter long.
Environment
This creature does not live in the water, but it does live in moist environments around streams. They tend to make their environments in burrowed holes they create. One of the few we have found we in South America around the Amazon Rain Forest.
Food
Nothing I can find out about their food.
Interesting facts
- This creature is not considered a snake.
- It breathes oxygen through its skin.
-Animals with no lungs typically relate to the salamander and some frog species which this creature is somewhat related to, its not related to the snake not even by a little.
Sources
http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0802-penis-snake-amazon.html
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/08/12/penis-snake/
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