Typhlonectes Peters, 1879

Wilkinson, Mark, Mauro, Diego San, Sherratt, Emma & Gower, David J., 2011, A nine-family classification of caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona), Zootaxa 2874, pp. 41-64 : 59

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5. Typhlonectes Peters, 1879

Type species: Caecilia compressicauda Duméril & Bibron, 1841 ( Fig. 10 View FIGURE 10 ) by subsequent designation of Dunn (1942).

Diagnosis: The only typhlonectids with a subcircular anal disc, lungs and fins. Distribution: Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Venezuela. Content: Two species ( compressicauda , natans ).

References

Dumeril, A. M. C. & Bibron, G. (1841) Erpetologie Generale ou Histoire Naturelle Complete des Reptiles, Vol. 8. Librairie Encylopedique de Roret, Paris.

Dunn, E. R. (1942) The American caecilians. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, 91, 339 - 540.

Peters, W. (1879) Uber die Eintheilung der Caecilien und insbesondere uber die Gattungen Rhinatrema und Gymnopis Monatsbericht der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1879, 924 - 943.

Figures

FIGURE 10. Volume reconstruction of HRXCT data showing skull of Typhlonectes compressicauda (MW 5820). Views as in Fig. 2. Scale bar = 1 mm. Scan parameters: a molybdenum target set at 100 kV and 155 μA; scan data were collected at 2.8 frames per second over 3142 projections in 360 ˚; reconstructed voxel size of 12 μm. Abbreviations as in Appendix.