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Geotrypetes Peters 1880

Description

2. Geotrypetes Peters, 1880

Type species: Caecilia seraphini Duméril, 1859 by original monotypy.

Diagnosis: The only dermophiids with the tentacle far forward, below the nostril.

Distribution: Benin, Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo.

Content: Three species (angeli, pseudoangeli, seraphini).

Notes

Published as part of Wilkinson, Mark, Mauro, Diego San, Sherratt, Emma & Gower, David J., 2011, A nine-family classification of caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona), pp. 41-64 in Zootaxa 2874 on page 46, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.200863

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References

  • Peters, W. (1880) Uber Schadel von zwei Coecilien Hypogeophis rostratus und Hypogeophis seraphini. Sitzung Bericht Geschichte Naturforschung Frankfurt, 1880, 53 - 55.
  • Dumeril, A. M. C. (1859) Reptiles et poissons de l'Afrique occidentale. Etude precedee de considerations generales sur leur distribution geographique. Archives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 10, 137 - 268.