Dermophis 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 : 46

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1. Dermophis Peters, 1879

Type species: Siphonops mexicanus Duméril & Bibron, 1841 ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 ) by subsequent designation of Noble (1924). Diagnosis: The only dermophiids without inner mandibular teeth.

Distribution: Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama. Content: Seven species (costaricense, glandulosus , gracilior , mexicanus , oaxacae , occidentalis , parviceps ).

References

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

Noble, G. K. (1924) Contributions to the herpetology of the Belgian Congo based on the collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition 1909 - 1915. Part III. Amphibia: with abstracts from the field notes of Herbert Lang and James P. Chapin. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 49, 147 - 347.

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 3. Volume reconstruction of HRXCT data showing skull of Dermophis mexicanus (BMNH 64.1.26.397). Views as in Fig. 2. Scale bar = 1 mm. Scan parameters: a molybdenum target set at 100 kV and 200 μA; scan data were collected at 2.0 frames per second over 3142 projections in 360 ˚; reconstructed voxel size of 17 μm. Abbreviations as in Appendix.