Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Atretochoana Nussbaum and Wilkinson, 1995, Proc. R. Soc. London, Ser. B, Biol. Sci., 261: 334. Type species: Typhlonectes eiselti Taylor, 1968, by original designation.

English Names

Eiselt's Caecilians (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 26).

Distribution

As for the single species.

Comment

Wilkinson and Nussbaum, 1999, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 126: 191-223, posited that Atretochoana is the sister taxon of Potamotyphlus.

Contained taxa

• Atretochoana eiselti (Taylor, 1968)

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