Scolecomorphidae
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Scolecomorphidae is the family of tropical caecilians (Frost) or African caecilians (ITIS). They are found in Cameroon in west Africa and Malawi and Tanzania in east Africa. Caecilians are legless amphibians which superficially resemble worms or snakes. They are rarely seen due to their habit of burrowing under the soil.
Taxonomy:
- Genus Crotaphatrema (Nussbaum, 1985).
- * Crotaphatrema bornmuelleri (Werner, 1899), "Bornmuller’s Caecilian," Cameroon.
- * Crotaphatrema lamottei (Nussbaum, 1981), "Mont Oku Caecilian," Cameroon.
- * Crotaphatrema tchabalmbaboensis (Lawson, 2000), Cameroon.
- Genus Scolecomorphus (Boulenger, 1883)
- * Scolecomorphus kirkii (Boulenger, 1883), "Lake Tanganyika Caecilian," East Africa.
- * Scolecomorphus uluguruensis ( Barbour and Loveridge, 1928), "Nyingwa Caecilian," Tanzania.
- * Scolecomorphus vittatus ((Boulenger, 1895), "Banded Caecilian," Tanzania.
References
- Nussbaum, Ronald A. and Mark Wilkinson (1989). "On the Classification and Phylogeny of Caecilians." Herpetological Monographs, (3), 1-42
- Frost, Darrel R. 2004. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 3.0 (22 August, 2004). Electronic Database accessible at http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA
- AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2004. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. Available: http://amphibiaweb.org/. Retrieved 26 August 2004
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