Grandisonia Taylor, 1968
Grandisonia Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 749. Type species: Hypogeophis alternans Stejneger, 1893, by original designation.
English Names
Seychelles Caecilians (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 24).
Distribution
Seychelles Islands, Indian Ocean.
Comment
Wilkinson and Nussbaum, 2006, In Exbrayat (ed.), Reprod. Biol. Phylog. Gymnophiona: 49, 64, diagnosed the taxon and suggested that Grandisonia is paraphyletic with respect to Hypogeophis and that this group is the sister taxon of Praslinia.
Contained taxa
- Grandisonia alternans (Stejneger, 1893)
- Grandisonia brevis (Boulenger, 1911)
- Grandisonia larvata (Ahl, 1934)
- Grandisonia sechellensis (Boulenger, 1911)
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