Hypogeophis 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 : 52

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3. Hypogeophis Peters, 1879

Type species: Coecilia rostrata Cuvier, 1829 by subsequent designation of Parker (1958).

Diagnosis: The only indotyphlids with eyes not covered by bone, tentacular grooves covered by bone, and mesethmoid not massively exposed between frontals.

Distribution: Seychelles.

Content: Two species ( brevis , rostratus ).

References

Cuvier, G. (1829) Le Regne Animale (2 nd ed), Deterville and Crochard, Paris.

Parker, H. W. (1958) Caecilians of the Seychelles Islands with description of a new species. Copeia, 1958, 71 - 17.

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.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Amphibia
Order	Gymnophiona
Family	Caeciliidae
Genus	Hypogeophis

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