Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Nectocaecilia Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 268. Type species: Chthonerpeton petersii Boulenger, 1882, by original designation.

English Names

Upper Amazon Caecilians (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 26).

Distribution

As for the single species.

Comment

Wilkinson and Nussbaum, 2006, In Exbrayat (ed.), Reprod. Biol. Phylog. Gymnophiona: 39-78 [70-71], diagnosed the taxon.

Contained taxa

• Nectocaecilia petersii (Boulenger, 1882)

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