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Barbados Threadsnake (Leptotyphlops carlae) is a species of blind threadsnake. It is the smallest snake species currently known to exist.[1] This member of the Leptotyphlopidae family is found on the Caribbean island of Barbados.[2]

The snake was first described and identified as a separate species in 2008 by S. Blair Hedges, a biologist from Pennsylvania State University.[3] Hedges named the new species of snake in honor of his wife, Carla Ann Hass, a herpetologist who was part of the discovery team.[4] Specimens of this species already existed in reference collections in the London Natural History Museum and in a museum in California, but they had been identified incorrectly, as belonging to a species now known to exist only on Martinique, another Caribbean island.[1]

At the time of publication, August 2008, L. carlae was described as the snake species with the smallest adults in the world.[5][6] The first scientific specimens taken by the research team were found under rocks in a forest. The snake is thought to be near the lower size limit for snakes imposed by natural selection, as young snakes need to attain a certain minimum size to find suitable food.[6]