The preferred natural
habitat of G. beddomii is
forest, at altitudes of 600–950 m (1,970–3,120 ft).[1]
Description
G. beddomii may attain a total length (including tail) of 14 cm (5.5 in).
Dorsally, it is brown, often with a darker vertebral line. Ventrally, it is paler brown. The rounded snout and the anal region are whitish.[6]
Boulenger GA (1890). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor & Francis, printers). xviii + 541 pp. (Typhlops beddomii, new species, p. 237).
Boulenger GA (1893). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families Typhlopidæ, ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 440 pp. + Plates I–XXVIII. (Typhlops beddomii, p. 18 + Plate I, Figures 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d).
Smith MA (1943). The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. III.—Serpentes. London: Secretary of State for India. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 583 pp. (Typhlops beddomei, pp. 54–55).