Rhinatrema Duméril and Bibron, 1841
Rhinatrema Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 288. Type species: Caecilia bivittata Guérin-Méneville, 1838, by monotypy.
Rhinatrème Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 271. Non-Latinized generic name.
English Names
Two-lined Caecilians (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 26).
Distribution
French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, and adjacent Amapá, Brazil.
Comment
Wilkinson and Nussbaum, 2006, In Exbrayat (ed.), Reprod. Biol. Phylog. Gymnophiona: 39-78 [53-54], diagnosed the taxon.
Contained taxa
- Rhinatrema bivittatum (Guérin-Méneville, 1838)
- Rhinatrema ron Wilkinson and Gower, 2010
- Rhinatrema shiv Gower, Wilkinson, Sherratt, and Kok, 2010
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