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) 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.