Caecilia
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Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Gymnophiona |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Caeciliidae
Subfamilia: Caeciliinae
Genus: Caecilia
Species (38):
C. abitaguae –
C. albiventris –
C. antioquiaensis –
C. aprix –
C. armata –
C. atelolepis –
C. attenuata –
C. bokermanni –
C. caribea –
C. corpulenta –
C. crassisquama –
C. degenerata –
C. disossea –
C. dunni –
C. epicrionopsoides –
C. flavopunctata –
C. goweri –
C. gracilis –
C. guntheri –
C. inca –
C. isthmica –
C. leucocephala –
C. macrodonta –
C. marcusi –
C. museugoeldi –
C. nigricans –
C. occidentalis –
C. orientalis –
C. pachynema –
C. perdita –
C. pulchraserrana –
C. subdermalis –
C. subnigricans –
C. subterminalis –
C. tentaculata –
C. tenuissima –
C. thompsoni –
C. volcani
Nomina inquirenda (1): C. mertensi
Name
[edit]- Type species: Caecilia tentaculata Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation of Dunn (1942: 494).
Synonymy
[edit]- Coecilia — Latreille in Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801: 237 [incorrect subsequent spelling of Caecilia Linnaeus, 1758]
- Amphiumophis Werner, 1901: 14
- Type species: Amphiumophis andicola Werner, 1901, by monotypy.
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL Reference page.
- Dunn, E.R. 1942. The American Caecilians. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 91(6): 437–540. BHL Reference page.
Additional references
[edit]- Maciel, A.O. & Hoogmoed, M.S. 2018. A New Species of Caecilia Linnaeus, 1758 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from French Guiana. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Naturais 13(1): 13–18. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
- Acosta-Galvis, A.R., Torres, M. & Pulido-Santacruz, P. 2019. A new species of Caecilia (Gymnophiona, Caeciliidae) from the Magdalena valley region of Colombia. ZooKeys 884: 135–157. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.884.35776
Reference page.
- Fernández-Roldán, J.D. & Lynch, J.D. 2021. A new species previously confused with Caecilia pachycnema (Günther, 1859) (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from the Cordillera Central of Colombia. Revista Latinoamericana de Herpetología 4(2): 53–64. DOI: 10.22201/fc.25942158e.2021.02.278
Reference page.
- Fernández-Roldán, J.D. & Rueda-Almonacid, J.V. 2022. A new species of the genus Caecilia Linnaeus, 1758 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from Caquetá, Colombia. Revista Latinoamericana de Herpetología 5(3): 51–57. DOI: 10.22201/fc.25942158e.2022.3.484
Reference page.
- Fernández-Roldán, J.D., Lynch, J.D. & Medina-Rangel, G.F. 2023. On the identities of Caecilia degenerata Dunn, 1942 and of C. corpulenta Taylor, 1968 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) with descriptions of three new species of Caecilia Linnaeus, 1758 from the Cordillera Oriental of Colombia. Zootaxa 5227(2): 205–228. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5227.2.3
Reference page.
Vernacular names
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