Caecilia subdermalis Taylor, 1968

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

Caecilia subdermalis Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 434. Holotype: ANSP 25570, by original designation. Type locality: "Moscopán, Cauca, Colombia". Given as within Huila, Colombia, by Lynch, 2000 "1999", Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 23: 327.

English Names

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

Distribution

Western and Central Andes of Colombia and likely into adjacent northern Ecuador, 1290-2320 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia

Endemic: Colombia

Comment

Lynch, 2000 "1999", Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 23: 327-328, commented on the distribution and systematics. See map provided by Acosta-Galvis, Torres, and Pulido-Santacruz, 2019, ZooKeys, 884: 138. 

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