Geotrypetes Peters, 1880

Wilkinson, Mark, Mauro, Diego San, Sherratt, Emma & Gower, David J., 2011, A nine-family classification of caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona), Zootaxa 2874, pp. 41-64 : 46

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scientific name

Geotrypetes Peters, 1880
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2. Geotrypetes Peters, 1880

Type species: Caecilia seraphini Duméril, 1859 by original monotypy.

Diagnosis: The only dermophiids with the tentacle far forward, below the nostril.

Distribution: Benin, Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo.

Content: Three species ( angeli , pseudoangeli , seraphini ).

Dumeril, A. M. C. (1859) Reptiles et poissons de l'Afrique occidentale. Etude precedee de considerations generales sur leur distribution geographique. Archives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 10, 137 - 268.

Peters, W. (1880) Uber Schadel von zwei Coecilien Hypogeophis rostratus und Hypogeophis seraphini. Sitzung Bericht Geschichte Naturforschung Frankfurt, 1880, 53 - 55.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Amphibia

Order

Gymnophiona

Family

Caeciliidae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Amphibia

Order

Gymnophiona

Family

Caeciliidae

Genus

Caecilia

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Amphibia

Order

Gymnophiona

Family

Caeciliidae

Genus

Geotrypetes