Rhinatrema bivittatum (Guérin-Méneville, 1838)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Gymnophiona > Family: Rhinatrematidae > Genus: Rhinatrema > Species: Rhinatrema bivittatum

Coecilia bivitatum Cuvier, 1829, Regne Animal., Ed. 2, 2: 100. Nomen nudum.

Caecilia bivittata Guérin-Méneville, 1838, Icon. Regne Animal, 3: 16. pl. 25, no. 2. Holotype: Not designated, although animal figured is holotype; this specimen is MNHNP 585 according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 4 (who regarded this name as a junior synonym of Ichthyophis glutinosus), and Lescure, 1988, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Sect. A, Zool., 10: 62. Type locality: "l'Amerique méridionale"; given as "Guyane (= Cayenne), French Guiana" by Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 159.

Rhinatrema bivittatumDuméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 6: 288.

English Names

Two Banded Caecilia (Gray, 1831, in Cuvier, Animal Kingdom (Griffith), 9—Appendix: 110).

Two-lined Caecilian (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 26).

Distribution

Suriname, French Guiana, and adjacent Brazil (states of Amapá and Pará north of the Amazon).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil, French Guiana, Suriname

Comment

Guyana record now regarded as Rhinatrema shiv. Discussed by Nussbaum and Hoogmoed, 1979, Zool. Meded., Leiden, 54: 219–221. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 294–295, provided a photo and brief account for French Guiana. Maciel and Hoogmoed, 2011, Zootaxa, 2984: 42–34, provided a detail account and spot map. See account for Suriname population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 330–331.  Maciel, Sampaio, Hoogmoed, and Schneider, 2018, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 13: 294, provided a map of the distribution. 

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