Microcaecilia

Genus of amphibians

Microcaecilia
Microcaecilia dermatophaga
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Gymnophiona
Clade: Apoda
Family: Siphonopidae
Genus: Microcaecilia
Taylor, 1968
Species

See text

Synonyms[1]
  • Caecilita Wake and Donnelly, 2010
  • Parvicaecilia Taylor, 1968

Microcaecilia is a genus of caecilians in the family Siphonopidae.

Species

Species included (as of October 2019):[1]

  • Microcaecilia albiceps (Boulenger, 1882)
  • Microcaecilia butantan Wilkinson, Antoniazzi, and Jared, 2015
  • Microcaecilia dermatophaga Wilkinson, Sherratt, Starace, and Gower, 2013[2]
  • Microcaecilia grandis Wilkinson, Nussbaum, and Hoogmoed, 2010
  • Microcaecilia iwokramae (Wake and Donnelly, 2010)
  • Microcaecilia iyob Wilkinson and Kok, 2010
  • Microcaecilia marvaleewakeae Maciel and Hoogmoed, 2013[3]
  • Microcaecilia nicefori (Barbour, 1924)
  • Microcaecilia pricei (Dunn, 1944)
  • Microcaecilia rabei (Roze and Solano, 1963)
  • Microcaecilia rochai Maciel and Hoogmoed, 2011
  • Microcaecilia savagei Donnelly and Wake, 2013
  • Microcaecilia supernumeraria Taylor, 1969
  • Microcaecilia taylori Nussbaum and Hoogmoed, 1979
  • Microcaecilia trombetas Maciel and Hoogmoed, 2011
  • Microcaecilia unicolor (Duméril, 1863)

References

  1. ^ a b Frost, Darrel R. (2019). "Microcaecilia". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  2. ^ Wilkinson; Sherratt; Starace & Gower (2013). "A New Species of Skin-Feeding Caecilian and the First Report of Reproductive Mode in Microcaecilia (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Siphonopidae)". PLOS ONE. 8 (3): e57756. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...857756W. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0057756. PMC 3590283. PMID 23483926.
  3. ^ Maciel, Adriano O.; Hoogmoed, Marinus S. (2013). "A new species of Microcaecilia (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Siphonopidae) from the Guianan region of Brazil". Zootaxa. 3693 (3): 387–94. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3693.3.9. PMID 26185857.
  • Wilkinson, M; Kok, P.J.R. (2019). "A new species of Microcaecilia (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from Guyana". Zootaxa. 2719: 35–40. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2719.1.3.
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