Oscaecilia Taylor, 1968
Oscaecilia Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 598. Type species: Caecilia ochrocephala Cope, 1866, by original designation.
English Names
South American Caecilians (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 24).
Distribution
Costa Rica, Panama, and northern South America; possibly southern Brazil.
Comment
Lahanas and Savage, 1992, Copeia, 1992: 703-708, supplied a key to the species. See comment under Caecilia. Wilkinson and Nussbaum, 2006, In Exbrayat (ed.), Reprod. Biol. Phylog. Gymnophiona: 39-78 [67-68], diagnosed the taxon. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583 (see comment in Amphibia record) on the basis of molecular evidence suggested that Oscaecilia is imbedded within a paraphyletic Caecilia.
Contained taxa
- Oscaecilia bassleri (Dunn, 1942)
- Oscaecilia elongata (Dunn, 1942)
- Oscaecilia equatorialis Taylor, 1973
- Oscaecilia hypereumeces Taylor, 1968
- Oscaecilia koepckeorum Wake, 1984
- Oscaecilia ochrocephala (Cope, 1866)
- Oscaecilia osae Lahanas and Savage, 1992
- Oscaecilia polyzona (Fischer, 1880)
- Oscaecilia zweifeli Taylor, 1968
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