Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Caecilia Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., Ed. 10, 1: 229. Type species: Caecilia tentaculata Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation of Dunn, 1942, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 91: 494. See also comment by Stejneger, 1936, Copeia, 1936: 139.

Coecilia —Latreille In Sonnini de Manoncourt and Latreille, 1801 (An. X), Hist. Nat. Rept., 4: 237. Incorrect subsequent spelling of Caecilia Linnaeus, 1758.

Cécilie — Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 271. French equivalent of Caecilia Wagler, 1828 (= Caecilia Linnaeus, 1758).

Amphiumophis Werner, 1901, Abh. Ber. Zool. Anthropol. Ethnograph. Mus. Dresden, 9: 14. Type species: Amphiumophis andicola Werner, 1901, by monotypy. Provisional synonymy by Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 347.

English Names

Common Caecilians (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 23).

Distribution

Panama and northern South American south to Bolivia.

Comment

Suggested to be paraphyletic with respect to Oscaecilia by Nussbaum and Wilkinson, 1989, Herpetol. Monogr., 3: 34. Brusquetti and Lavilla, 2006, Cuad. Herpetol., 20: 22, suggested that previous statements of Caecilia sp. from Paraguay were in error. Wilkinson and Nussbaum, 2006, In Exbrayat (ed.), Reprod. Biol. Phylog. Gymnophiona: 49, 61, diagnosed the taxon and suggested that the monophyly of this taxon with respect to Oscaecilia remains undocumented, as did Maciel, Mott, and Hoogmoed, 2009, Zootaxa, 2226: 19-27. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583 (see comment in Amphibia record) on the basis of molecular evidence suggested that Caecilia is paraphyletic with respect to Oscaecilia.

Contained taxa

• Caecilia abitaguae Dunn, 1942
• Caecilia albiventris Daudin, 1803
• Caecilia antioquiaensis Taylor, 1968
• Caecilia armata Dunn, 1942
• Caecilia attenuata Taylor, 1968
• Caecilia bokermanni Taylor, 1968
• Caecilia caribea Dunn, 1942
• Caecilia corpulenta Taylor, 1968
• Caecilia crassisquama Taylor, 1968
• Caecilia degenerata Dunn, 1942
• Caecilia disossea Taylor, 1968
• Caecilia dunni Hershkovitz, 1938
• Caecilia flavopunctata Roze and Solano, 1963
• Caecilia gracilis Shaw, 1802
• Caecilia guntheri Dunn, 1942
• Caecilia inca Taylor, 1973
• Caecilia isthmica Cope, 1877
• Caecilia leucocephala Taylor, 1968
• Caecilia marcusi Wake, 1985
• Caecilia mertensi Taylor, 1973
• Caecilia nigricans Boulenger, 1902
• Caecilia occidentalis Taylor, 1968
• Caecilia orientalis Taylor, 1968
• Caecilia pachynema Günther, 1859
• Caecilia perdita Taylor, 1968
• Caecilia pressula Taylor, 1968
• Caecilia subdermalis Taylor, 1968
• Caecilia subnigricans Dunn, 1942
• Caecilia subterminalis Taylor, 1968
• Caecilia tentaculata Linnaeus, 1758
• Caecilia tenuissima Taylor, 1973
• Caecilia thompsoni Boulenger, 1902
• Caecilia volcani Taylor, 1969

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