He just doesn’t want to have to give up his claim to the smallest snake to the snake we found. I’ll call it the Chengophlops Patchinus :)

I too have seen these things crawling inside our bathroom that I decided to take macro shots of it. It looked like an earthworm but it was more slender and it slithers like a snake. You could see in the pictures it has scales. So I too decided to share this with the “discoverer” Blair Hedges as soon as I read the breaking news on his “discovery” and got the same email response as u did lol.

Thanks for your message! What you may have seen is a different species, the Flowerpot Blindsnake (Ramphotyphlops braminus)–also called the Brahminy Blindsnake–a species originally from Indonesia but introduced all over the world, including Florida, Hawaii and many other places. It is very common. It is usually blackish and has very small young (<4 inches) that can fit on a coin but the adults are larger than the adults of the Barbados Threadsnake. Thank you for sharing your experience! Best wishes, Blair Hedges

Well here’s the photos …

I’ll bet Blair Hedges is getting tons and tons of emails from people like us. “I saw a small snake, too!!” :)

OMG, this is exactly the same species of snake that I just found on my floor an hour ago. I thought it was a worm but it moved like a snake so i was suprised to see such thing existed. So here I am browsing the net to find some infos n now I know it is a snake! Are you sure it wont get any bigger that that?!

I am surprized to here that they discovered it now. As i am seeing them from 25 years back in India. And I am not the only one here we all know about it. Here we call it “teleya Saap” in hindi means oily snake. It is a common thing here.

i work for a pest control company in the palm springs ca.area and a coworker has fount several of these small black snakes it the naked eye it looks like a worm when magnified you can see scales and its tounge it was very interesting..also strange to know they are all over the world… w.c

I just found one in my compost pile in Cocoa Florida 2011/03/19. Looks to be the same size and color. Almost metalic looking.

i really want one of these, but even if i find one in my back yard(ive seen quite a few back there) i wouldnt know how to care for them, likw what kind of habitat they require or thier diet. any advise anyone?

i found one in inglewood californa crowling on the  floor and am tring to find out if is the right speaces are not but it looks exacly the same.. 

I live here in Hawai’i and started searching for this because I just came across one on my bathroom floor. My daughter was hitting it and hitting it. We were scared because we wasn’t sure what it was. I have 6 kids and was afraid that it might harm one of my kids. Oh My! This is exactly what we just discovered minutes ago. still in shock

Don’t worry its not harmfull.

..’ is it  harmful for human kind

..;do you knou da english word ofit

they have a rabbies?

Found one in my backyard tonight. It was headed towards the pool and I put some water by it to see how it moved because I was unsure whether it was a worm or not… The thing slithered away just like a snake! There’s no way it could have been a worm by how shiny it’s skin was and the way it moved, but it was SO tiny! I live in Destin, FL.