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Heterogeneidad de la familia Caeciliidae (Amphibia, Apoda)
Acta Zoológica Lilloana, 1984 El autor muestra que el hueso post-frontal, libre en los Ichthyophidae, está fusionado con el escamoso en otras cecilias, excepto en Caecilia y Oscaecilia, donde se fusiona con el maxilar.
Raymond F. Laurent
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A new species of Microcaecilia (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from Guyana
Zootaxa, 2010 A new species of caeciliid caecilian, Microcaecilia iyob sp. nov., is described based on a single specimen from Guyana that was previously assigned to M. unicolor (Duméril, 1864), a species known with certainty only from French Guiana. The new species differs from other Microcaecilia in its pattern of annulation and/or major features of the dentition.
Wilkinson, Mark, Kok, Philippe
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A second species of Brasilotyphlus (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from Brazilian Amazonia
Zootaxa, 2009 Brasilotyphlus is rediagnosed in light of the discovery of a second species of the genus, B. guarantanus sp. nov., in the municipality of Guarantã do Norte, state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. The new species differs from B. braziliensis mainly in annular counts, having 151–170 primaries and at most 2 secondaries (instead of 142–147 primaries and 23–36 ...
Maciel, Adriano O. +2 more
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A new species of Gegeneophis Peters (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from Maharashtra, India
Zootaxa, 2003 A new species of caeciliid caecilian (Amphibia: Gymnophiona), Gegeneophis seshachari, is described from the Western Ghats of Maharashtra, India. Known only from the type specimen, this distinctive species differs from all other Indian caeciliids in lacking secondary annuli, and in possessing an unsegmented terminal shield.
Ravichandran, Masagoundanur S. +2 more
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Zootaxa, 2011 A new species of caecilian amphibian, Gegeneophis pareshi sp. nov., is described based on a series of 16 type specimens from the Western Ghats region of southern Goa, India. This species differs from all other congeners except G. seshachari Ravichandran, Gower & Wilkinson, 2003 in lacking secondary annular grooves and possessing an unsegmented ...
Giri, Varad +3 more
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Zootaxa, 2004 A new species of Indian caeciliid caecilian, Indotyphlus maharashtraensis (Amphibia: Gymnophiona), is described based on a series of 12 specimens from the northern Western Ghats of the State of Maharashtra. This species differs from the only other species in the genus, I.
Giri, Varad +2 more
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, 1987 (Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
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Urban-Wild Interface Diversity: A Comprehensive Checklist of Herpetofauna of Guayaquil, Ecuador. [PDF]
Ecol EvolAmphibians and reptiles in Guayaquil comprise multiple taxonomic orders and occur across conservation areas, forest remnants, and urban parks, including several endemic species and numerous taxa with type localities in the city. Although most species are globally classified as Least Concern, discrepancies between global and national threat assessments ...
Cruz-García K +3 more
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Phylogenetic relationships of African Caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona): insights from mitochondrial rRNA gene sequences [PDF]
, 2003 Africa (excluding the Seychelles) has a diverse caecilian fauna, including the endemic family Scolecomorphidae and six endemic genera of the more cosmopolitan Caeciliidae.
Mark Wilkinson +14 more
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, 2023 Fernández-Roldán, Juan David, Lynch, John D. (2023): A new species of Caecilia Linnaeus, 1758 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from the Pacific lowlands of Colombia, with comments on the status of C. tenuissima Taylor, 1973. Zootaxa 5270 (2): 194-206,
Lynch, John D. +1 more
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