Caecilia guntheri Dunn, 1942
Caecilia güntheri Peters, 1880 "1879", Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1879: 936. Nomen nudum.
Caecilia guentheri — Boulenger, 1895, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1895: 406. Incorrect subsequent spelling of a nomen nudum.
Caecilia guntheri Dunn, 1942, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 91: 510. Holotype: BMNH 1946.9.5.12 (formerly 1860.6.16.85), according to Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 397. Type locality: "Western Ecuador".
English Names
Gunther's Caecilian (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 23).
Distribution
Western slope of the Cordillera Occidental in Colombia and northern Ecuador.
Comment
See Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 395-398, for discussion of nomenclature. Lynch, 2000 "1999", Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 23: 325, discussed the range and suggested the possibility of conspecificity with Caecilian tentaculata.
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