Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Scolecomorphus Kirkii Boulenger, 1883, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 5, 11: 48. Holotype: BMNH 1946.9.5.5.58 (formerly 82.1.6.23), according to Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 643. Type locality: "East Africa . . . . probably from the vicinity of Lake Tanganyika". See note on type locality by Loveridge, 1953, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 110: 332-333.

Scolecomorphus convexus Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 637. Holotype: ZMH A00268 (formerly 1358), according to Hallermann, 1998, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 95: 200. Type locality: "Uhehe, Deutsch-Ost-Afrikas,.. . a district in south central Tanganyika [= Tanzania] in the Southern Highlands, south of the Ruahi [=Ruaha] River". Synonymy by Nussbaum, 1985, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 713: 15.

Scolecomorphus kirkii kirkii — Stevens, 1974, Arnoldia, Zimbabwe, 6: 5.

English Names

Lake Tanganyika Caecilian (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 26).

Kirk's Caecilian (Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 382).

Distribution

Mountains of southern Malawi through the Ubena and Mahenge highlands to the Nguru, Uluguru, Mahenga, and North Pare mountains in Tanzania; presumably in intervening areas, including western Mozambique.

Comment

See accounts by Loveridge, 1933, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 74: 350; and Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 382-383; and Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 350-351. Loader, Poynton, and Mariaux, 2004, Afr. Zool., 39: 71-76, provided a record for Mahenga Mountain in Tanzania. Mercurio, 2011, Amph. Malawi: 306, provided an account for Malawi.

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