Gymnophiona, 1832

Wilkinson, Mark, Mauro, Diego San, Sherratt, Emma & Gower, David J., 2011, A nine-family classification of caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona), Zootaxa 2874, pp. 41-64 : 44

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ORDER Gymnophiona, 1832 View in CoL

Lissamphibians with elongate annulate bodies, lacking limbs and girdles. Based on current understanding of phylogeny, the extant Gymnophiona comprise all descendents of the last common ancestor of, for example, Rhinatrema bivittatum and Caecilia tentaculata .

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Amphibia
Order	Gymnophiona

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