Geotrypetes Peters, 1880
Geotrypetes Peters, 1880, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1880: 55. Type species: Caecilia seraphini Duméril, 1859, by monotypy.
English Names
West African Caecilians (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 24).
Distribution
Tropical West Africa.
Comment
Wilkinson and Nussbaum, 2006, In Exbrayat (ed.), Reprod. Biol. Phylog. Gymnophiona: 39-78 [64], diagnosed the taxon. See comment under Dermophiidae.
Contained taxa
- Geotrypetes angeli Parker, 1936
- Geotrypetes pseudoangeli Taylor, 1968
- Geotrypetes seraphini (Duméril, 1859)
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