Epicrionops Boulenger, 1883
Epicrionops Boulenger, 1883, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 5, 11: 202. Type species: Epicrionops bicolor Boulenger, 1883, by monotypy.
English Names
Beaked Caecilians (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 25).
Distribution
Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Guyana, Venezuela, and presumably into adjacent Brazil; possibly into northern Bolivia.
Comment
Lynch, 2000 "1999", Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 23: 332, noted an undescribed species from Lago de Calima, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Wilkinson and Nussbaum, 2006, In Exbrayat (ed.), Reprod. Biol. Phylog. Gymnophiona: 39-78 [53], diagnosed the taxon suggested that evidence of monophyly of Epicrionops with respect to Rhinatrema is currently unknown. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583 (see comment in Amphibia record) suggested on the basis of molecular evidence that Epicrionops niger is more closely related to Rhinatrema bivittatum than to Epicrionops marmoratus, suggesting that a generic rearrangement is warranted.
Contained taxa
- Epicrionops bicolor Boulenger, 1883
- Epicrionops columbianus (Rendahl and Vestergren, 1939)
- Epicrionops lativittatus Taylor, 1968
- Epicrionops marmoratus Taylor, 1968
- Epicrionops niger (Dunn, 1942)
- Epicrionops parkeri (Dunn, 1942)
- Epicrionops peruvianus (Boulenger, 1902)
- Epicrionops petersi Taylor, 1968
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