Rhinatrema bivittatum (Guérin-Méneville, 1838)
Coecilia bivitatum Cuvier, 1829, Regne Animal., Ed. 2, 2: 100. Nomen nudum.
Caecilia bivittata Guérin-Méneville, 1838, Icon. Regne Animal, 3: 16. pl. 25, no. 2. Holotype: Not designated, although animal figured is holotype; this specimen is MNHNP 585 according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 4 (who regarded this name as a junior synonym of Ichthyophis glutinosus), and Lescure, 1988, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Sect. A, Zool., 10: 62. Type locality: "l'Amerique méridionale"; given as "Guyane (= Cayenne), French Guiana" by Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 159.
Rhinatrema bivittatum — Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 288.
English Names
Two Banded Caecilia (Gray, 1831, in Cuvier, Animal Kingdom (Griffith), 9—Appendix: 110).
Two-lined Caecilian (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 26).
Distribution
Northern Guyana, northern Surinam, French Guiana, and Brazil (states of Amapá and Pará north of the Amazon).
Comment
Discussed by Nussbaum and Hoogmoed, 1979, Zool. Meded., Leiden, 54: 219-221. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 294-295, provided a photo and brief account for French Guiana. Maciel and Hoogmoed, 2011, Zootaxa, 2984: 42-34, provided a detail account and spot map. See account for Surinam population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 330-331.
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