Oscaecilia bassleri (Dunn, 1942)
Caecilia bassleri Dunn, 1942, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 91: 518. Holotype: MCZ 19401, by original designation. Type locality: "Pastaza R. (Canelos to Marañón)", Ecuador.
Oscaecilia bassleri — Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 598.
English Names
Pastaza River Caecilian (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 24).
Distribution
Lower Amazonian slopes and western Amazon Basin of Ecuador, and Peru, possibly into adjacent Colombia and Bolivia.
Comment
De la Riva, Köhler, Lötters, and Reichle, 2000, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 14: 58, consider this species possibly to occur in Bolivia. Lynch, 2000 "1999", Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 23: 330, suggested that the species might be found in Colombia. Taylor and Peters, 1974, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 50: 338, commented on the Ecuadorian specimens.
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