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n. - Blind snakes of Asia and Africa and Americas.

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  • Hedges named the snake “Leptotyphlops carlae” after his herpetologist wife, Carla Ann Hass.
  • The only strictly endemic vertebrate in this ecoregion is the Pungwe worm snake (Leptotyphlops pungwensis).
  • The West Indies is also home to the world's smallest snake, Leptotyphlops bilineata, which could slither through a pencil if the lead were removed.
  • In St. Louis, he was Father Anderson Bakewell's first employer when then plain "Andy" collected snakes for him, among them Leptotyphlops bakewelli.
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