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Praslinia Boulenger, 1909

Class: Amphibia > Order: Gymnophiona > Family: Indotyphlidae > Genus: Praslinia

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Praslinia Boulenger, 1909, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Ser. 2, 12: 292. Type species: Praslinia cooperi Boulenger, 1909, by monotypy.

English Names

Cooper's Caecilians (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 24).

Distribution

As for the only species (Seychelles).

Comment

See comment under Grandisonia. Wilkinson and Nussbaum, 2006, In Exbrayat (ed.), Reprod. Biol. Phylog. Gymnophiona: 39-78 [68] diagnosed the taxon.

Contained taxa

  • Praslinia cooperi Boulenger, 1909

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