Dermophis Peters, 1880
Dermophis Peters, 1880 "1879", Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1879: 930. Type species: Siphonops mexicanus Duméril and Bibron, 1841, by subsequent designation of Noble, 1924, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 49: 305.
English Names
Mexican Caecilians (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 23).
Neotropical Caecilians (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 6).
Distribution
Southern Mexico to northwestern Colombia.
Comment
Savage and Wake, 1972, Copeia, 1972: 680-695, revised this genus and considered its distribution. Wake, 1980, Herpetologica, 36: 244-256, discussed variation in taxonomic characters. Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 116-120, provided accounts for the species of Costa Rica. Wilkinson and Nussbaum, 2006, In Exbrayat (ed.), Reprod. Biol. Phylog. Gymnophiona: 49, 63, diagnosed the taxon and suggested that Dermophis and Gymnopis are closest relatives on the basis of morphological and reproductive similarity, but that the monophyly of either taxon remains undocumented. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583 (see comment in Amphibia record) on the basis of molecular evidence consistent with the monophyly of Gymopis + Dermophis.
Contained taxa
- Dermophis costaricense Taylor, 1955
- Dermophis glandulosus Taylor, 1955
- Dermophis gracilior Günther, 1902
- Dermophis mexicanus (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)
- Dermophis oaxacae (Mertens, 1930)
- Dermophis occidentalis Taylor, 1955
- Dermophis parviceps (Dunn, 1924)
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