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Search tool	Example of search string in box	What that means to the database
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	Hyl*	Will find all uses of "Hyl . . ." anywhere in a record: e.g., Hylarana, Hyla, Hylidae, Hylinae, Hylaedactyla.
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	*Hyla	Will find all uses of ". . . hyla" anywhere in a record: e.g., Hyla, Hylidae, Plectrohyla, Ptychadena hylaea, Adenomera hylaedactyla
Single word	Hyla	Will find all records that contain stand-alone uses of Hyla: e.g., Hyla, Hyla arenicolor
Strings of words without quotation marks	Lithobates pipiens	Interprets this as "Lithobates OR pipiens" so will find the union of all records that contain either "Lithobates" or "pipiens": e.g., Lithobates omiltemanus, Hylorana pipiens
Strings of word with quotation marks	"Lithobates pipiens"	Interprets this as "Lithobates AND pipiens" so will return all records that have the character string "Lithobates pipiens" anywhere within a record: e.g., all members of the Lithobates pipiens complex.
AND statement. Means that the results of the search must include both words held together by an AND	Lithobates AND pipiens	Same as "Lithobates pipiens"
OR statement. Means that the results of the search will all records that have either of the terms held together by an OR	Lithobates OR "Costa Rica"	Recovers all records that contain the word "Lithobates" or "Costa Rica": 402 records inasmuch as this will include all records for the entire amphibian fauna of Costa Rica
Combining Boolean operators within the Basic Search box (AND, OR, NOT, quotation marks)	Lithobates AND "Costa Rica" NOT forreri	Recovers only records that contain the word Lithobates AND "Costa Rica", but excludes any record that contains the word "forreri" in any part of the record: 9 records
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Caecilia gracilis Shaw, 1802

Class: Amphibia > Order: Gymnophiona > Family: Caeciliidae > Genus: Caecilia > Species: Caecilia gracilis

Caecilia gracilis Shaw, 1802, Gen. Zool., 3(1): 597. Type(s): Mus. Adolphi Friderici? See comments by Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 386 Type locality: "South America".

Caecilia lumbricoïdaea Daudin, 1803 "An. XI", Hist. Nat. Gen. Part. Rept., 7: 420. Holotype: MNHNP 4264, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 4. Type locality: "Surinam". Synonymy by Merrem, 1820, Tent. Syst. Amph.: 168 (with Caecilia gracilis considered junior); Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 6: 275; Gray, 1850, Cat. Spec. Amph. Coll. Brit. Mus., Batr. Grad.: 57; Boulenger, 1895, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1895: 407. See Vanzolini and Myers, 2015, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 395: 69–70, for comments on Wied's specimen.

Caecilia lumbricoides — Merrem, 1820, Tent. Syst. Amph.: 168. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Caecilia vermiformis Shaw In Gray, 1850, Cat. Spec. Amph. Coll. Brit. Mus., Batr. Grad.: 57. Substitute name presented as a junior synonym of Caecilia gracilis.

Caecilia gracilis var. lumbricoidea — Duméril, 1863, Mem. Soc. Imp. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, 9: 313.

Coecilia lumbricoidaea — Fitzinger, 1864, Bilder Altas Wissenschaftl. Naturgesch. Amph.: pl. 100, fig. 185.

English Names

Wormlike Caecilia (Caecilia lumbricoidea [no longer recognized]: Gray, 1831, in Cuvier, Animal Kingdom (Griffith), 9—Appendix: 110).

Slender Caecilian (Wood, 1863, Illust. Nat. Hist., 3: 187).

Surinam Caecilian (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 23).

Distribution

Suriname, French Guiana, Amazonian Peru, and Amazonian and Guyanan Brazil (states of Amapá, Amazonas, Maranhão, Pará, Rondônia and Tocantins); presumably into adjacent southeastern Colombia and Guyana.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil, French Guiana, Peru, Suriname

Likely/Controversially Present: Colombia, Guyana

Comment

Reviewed by Nussbaum and Hoogmoed, 1979, Zool. Meded., Leiden, 54: 222–223. See Taylor, 1969, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 48: 281–296, for corrigenda of errors. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 290–291, provided a photo and brief account for French Guiana. Maciel, Gomes, Costa, and Andrade, 2006, Herpetol. Rev., 37: 104, provided the record for Maranhão, Brazil. Maciel and Hoogmoed, 2011, Zootaxa, 2984: 6–10, provided a detailed account and a spot map. See account for Surinam population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 320–321.

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