The Caecilians
The caecilians are an order (Gymnophiona) of amphibians that resemble earthworms or snakes. They mostly live hidden in the ground. All existing caecilians and their closest fossil relatives are grouped as the clade Apoda. They are mostly distributed in the tropics of South and Central America, Africa, and South Asia.
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Caecilian Classification - List of Families
"The most recent classification of caecilians, by Wilkinson et al. (2011), divided the Gymnophiona into 9 families containing nearly 200 species. Since then, a tenth caecilian family has been discovered, Chikilidae. This classification is based on a thorough definition of monophyly based on morphological and molecular evidence, and it solves the longstanding problems of paraphyly of the Caeciliidae in previous classifications without an exclusive reliance upon synonymy." Wikipedia
- Rhinatrematidae - 2 genera, 11 species; South America
- Ichthyophiidae - 3 genera, 50 species; South and Southeast Asia
- Scolecomorphidae - 2 genera, 6 species; Africa
- Herpelidae - 2 genera, 9 species; Africa
- Chikilidae - 1 genus, 3 species; India
- Caeciliidae - 2 genera, 42 species; South and Central America
- Typhlonectidae - 5 genera, 13 species; South America
- Indotyphlidae - 7 genera, 21 species; Seychelles, India, Africa
- Siphonopidae - 7 genera, 19 species; South America
- Dermophiidae - 4 genera, 13 species; Africa, Central and South America
Family Rhinatrematidae Caecilian List of Species
The nine species in two genera are:
- Genus Epicrionops - beaked caecilians
- E. bicolor - two-coloured caecilian (Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Colombia)
- E. columbianus - El Tambo caecilian (Colombia)
- E. lativittatus - eastern Peru caecilian (Peru)
- E. marmoratus - marbled caecilian (Ecuador)
- E. niger - black caecilian (Guyana, Venezuela, and possibly Brazil)
- E. parkeri - Parker's caecilian (Colombia)
- E. peruvianus - Marcapata Valley caecilian (Peru)
- E. petersi - Peters' caecilian (Ecuador, Peru, and possibly Brazil and Colombia)
- Genus Rhinatrema
- R. bivittatum - two-lined caecilian (Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname)
- R. shiv - Shiv’s rhinatrema (Guyana)
Web Resources
Amphibian Ark.org - Helping Amhpibians Worldwide from becoming extinct
Arkive - The Sagalla caecilian
http://www.arkive.org/sagalla-caecilian/boulengerula-niedeni/
BBC - The Caecilian
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Caecilian
Mexican Burrowing Caecilian http://www.digimorph.org/specimens/Dermophis_mexicanus/
Chikiilidae - Species New to Science
San Diego Zoo - The Caecillians
Amphibian Ark.org - Helping Amhpibians Worldwide from becoming extinct
Arkive - The Sagalla caecilian
http://www.arkive.org/sagalla-caecilian/boulengerula-niedeni/
BBC - The Caecilian
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Caecilian
Mexican Burrowing Caecilian http://www.digimorph.org/specimens/Dermophis_mexicanus/
Chikiilidae - Species New to Science
San Diego Zoo - The Caecillians
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