Microcaecilia

Microcaecilia
Microcaecilia dermatophaga
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Gymnophiona
Clade:	Apoda
Family:	Siphonopidae
Genus:	Microcaecilia Taylor, 1968
Species
See text
Synonyms [1]
CaecilitaWake and Donnelly, 2010 ParvicaeciliaTaylor, 1968

Microcaecilia is a genus of caecilians in the family Siphonopidae.

Species

Species included (as of October 2019): ^[1]

• Microcaecilia albiceps (Boulenger, 1882)
• Microcaecilia butantan Wilkinson, Antoniazzi, and Jared, 2015
• Microcaecilia dermatophaga Wilkinson, Sherratt, Starace, and Gower, 2013 ^[2]
• Microcaecilia grandis Wilkinson, Nussbaum, and Hoogmoed, 2010
• Microcaecilia iwokramae (Wake and Donnelly, 2010)
• Microcaecilia iyob Wilkinson and Kok, 2010
• Microcaecilia marvaleewakeae Maciel and Hoogmoed, 2013 ^[3]
• Microcaecilia nicefori (Barbour, 1924)
• Microcaecilia pricei (Dunn, 1944)
• Microcaecilia rabei (Roze and Solano, 1963)
• Microcaecilia rochai Maciel and Hoogmoed, 2011
• Microcaecilia savagei Donnelly and Wake, 2013
• Microcaecilia supernumeraria Taylor, 1969
• Microcaecilia taylori Nussbaum and Hoogmoed, 1979
• Microcaecilia trombetas Maciel and Hoogmoed, 2011
• Microcaecilia unicolor (Duméril, 1863)

References

1. Frost, Darrel R. (2019). "Microcaecilia". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
2. Wilkinson; Sherratt; Starace & Gower (2013). "A New Species of Skin-Feeding Caecilian and the First Report of Reproductive Mode in Microcaecilia (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Siphonopidae)". PLOS ONE . 8 (3) e57756. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...857756W. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057756 . PMC   3590283 . PMID   23483926.
3. Maciel, Adriano O.; Hoogmoed, Marinus S. (2013). "A new species of Microcaecilia (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Siphonopidae) from the Guianan region of Brazil". Zootaxa. 3693 (3): 387–94. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3693.3.9. PMID   26185857.

• Wilkinson, M; Kok, P.J.R. (2019). "A new species of Microcaecilia (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from Guyana". Zootaxa. 2719: 35–40. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2719.1.3.