Microcaecilia Taylor, 1968
Microcaecilia Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 532. Type species: Dermophis albiceps Boulenger, 1882, by original designation.
English Names
Tiny Caecilians (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 24).
Distribution
Ecuador through southern Venezuela to the Guianas; São Paulo, Brazil.
Comment
Taylor, 1969, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 48: 313, provided a key to the species in this genus. Wilkinson and Nussbaum, 2006, In Exbrayat (ed.), Reprod. Biol. Phylog. Gymnophiona: 39-78 [66-67], rediagnosed the taxon and suggested that its monophyly is undocumented. Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park, 5: 244-245, provided an account of a Microcaecilia sp. from Guyana.
Contained taxa
- Microcaecilia albiceps (Boulenger, 1882)
- Microcaecilia grandis Wilkinson, Nussbaum, and Hoogmoed, 2010
- Microcaecilia iyob Wilkinson and Kok, 2010
- Microcaecilia rabei (Roze and Solano, 1963)
- Microcaecilia rochai Maciel and Hoogmoed, 2011
- Microcaecilia supernumeraria Taylor, 1969
- Microcaecilia taylori Nussbaum and Hoogmoed, 1979
- Microcaecilia trombetas Maciel and Hoogmoed, 2011
- Microcaecilia unicolor (Duméril, 1863)
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