World's Smallest Snake

I am in Florida. I was cleaning out the car and I thought it was a worm. I picked it up and it was a tiny snake.

Found one on my floor about 2 weeks ago, wasnt sure what it was untill I saw a news report on them. I also live in Florida...near Tampa.

Few days ago I red this article about the "discovery" of this smallest snake in the Caribbean islands of Barbados named "Leptotyphlops carlae". I recognised the little snake since I have seen it in my own hands years ago while gardening around my home in North Palm Beach, Florida.
I love most of the creatures and I couln' t help noticing that the little black worm in my hand WASN'T a worm at all. He had scales and a little rould adorable non venomous snake head...and it was moving like a snake not like a worm. After enjoing my little encounter I released the little creature to go without knowing that it belong to a species never found before and that evening I told my family all about it.
Please inform the biologist at Penn State University...I know he gave his wife name Carla to the snake but I would love to think that I "Giugi" can be the unknown original founder. If he wants to cantact me he know how to do it.

I live in Tampa, FL--and in the past year, have found two of these snakes in my garden. They are so small, that a magnifying glass was needed for closer inspection, and to locate the eyes. They are VERY shiny, and paler in color on the ventral side.

I came to the US from South Vietnam after the VietCong's took over Saigon in 1975. I remembered seeing this tiny snake so many times in my country when I was a small kid. At first, I thought they were some earthworms because I found them under the trees in my grandpa's garden. But then my Mom told me they were snakes because, as she pointed out to me, their forked tongues had momentarily come in and out of their mouths looking for bad kids :) .

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The Barbados Threadsnake only occurs on Barbados. What people in Florida and other places (Hawaii, other islands in the Pacific, California, Texas, South
America, Africa, etc.) are seeing is a common introduced species, the
FlowerPot Blindsnake, Ramphotyphlops braminus, that belongs to a different
family (there are other species as well, but this one is common around
houses). It was introduced probably from Indonesia. It is BLACK and very
thin. The hatchlings and young can fit on a coin, but the adults are larger
than the adults of the Barbados Threadsnake (the Flowerpot Blindsnake also
occurs on Barbados). The two are not the same species for the same reason
that not all small birds or small mammals are the same species (There are
3,100 species of snakes). Different species often have characters that must
be seen under a microscope. Often, their sex and adult status can only be
determined by an expert. Use internet searches to determine what you have,
and to learn more about the species that occur in your area.

Poisonous? I think that's an obvious question...

My daughters and I found one of these yesterday while out for a walk. It looks just like the one in the photo. We stopped to pick mulberries, and my 2-year-old looked down and said "snake." I was sure she was mistaken, until I bent down to inspect. It looked almost like an earthworm, but then I noticed the way it moved, and then saw its tiny little microscopic tongue darting in and out. We were fascinated. So we managed to pick it up in my daughter's bonnet and carried it home to put in a jar. My FIL helped us identify it, and we are using this as our science lesson today, as we homeschool. Anyway, this was our most interesting find out on a walk so far.

Oh yeah - we are in north central Texas. We found the snake on the road right next to the curb. The funny thing was, there was an earthworm right next to it, and the snake looked very small compared to the chubby earthworm.

i was playing basketball in the shop and i looked down and i saw this weird looking worm like thing on the floor so i called my dad over and he said that it might just be a worm well he swept it out side so we could see what it was and well it was a snake omg i couldnt believe that a snake could be that small and the cool thing is, is that when it gets scared it curls up like intertwins its self. when my dad saw that he thought i killed it but i told him that it kinda plays possuim lol but that was the coolest snake ever i wanted to keep it but thought that would be best if i just left it a lone so that is what i did. but they are neat little snakes.

oh and i forgot to say that i found it in fort worth, texas

Wow! My wife just found one in our kitchen
in Killeen Texas. It's very light in color.
Almost taupe with a silver tint.
What do you feed it?
Anybody know who may want one for
research or something? Contact me at
ty@destinywoc.com 4/22/2011

Have you seen this type of snake?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7yWxBNZItc