Caecilia Linnaeus, 1758
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1. Caecilia Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL
Type species: Caecilia tentaculata Linnaeus, 1758 ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 ) by subsequent designation of Dunn (1942). Diagnosis: The only caeciliids with eyes not covered by bone.
Distribution: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela.
Content: 33 species ( abitaguae , albiventris , antioquiensis, armata , attenuata , bockermani, caribea , corpulenta , crassiquama, degenerata , disossea , dunni , flavopunctata , gracilis , guntheri , leucocephala , inca , isthmica , marcusi , mertensi , nigricans , occidentalis , orientalis , pachynema , perdita , pressula , subdermalis , subnigricans , subterminalis , tentaculata , tenuissima , thompsoni , volcani ).
Dunn, E. R. (1942) The American caecilians. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, 91, 339 - 540.
Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema Naturae (10 th Ed), Laurentii Salva, Holmiae.
FIGURE 2. Volume reconstruction of high-resolution x-ray computed tomography (HRXCT) data showing skull of Caecilia tentaculata (MW 5138, field series of Natural History Museum, London [BMNH]). Left side from top to bottom: cranium in dorsal and palatal view. Right side from top to bottom: cranium in lateral view, mandible in lateral and dorsal view. Scale bar = 1 mm. Scan parameters: a molybdenum target set at 110 kV and 160 μA; scan data were collected at 2.8 frames per second over 3142 projections in 360 ˚; reconstructed voxel size of 19 μm. Abbreviations as in Appendix.
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