Atretochoana eiselti

Atretochoana eiselti

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gymnophiona

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Gymnophiona

Familia: Caeciliidae
Subfamilia: Typhlonectinae
Genus: Atretochoana
Species: Atretochoana eiselti

Name

Atretochoana eiselti (Taylor, 1968)

• Holotype: NHMW 9144.
• Type locality: "South America".

Combinations

• Typhlonectes eiselti Taylor, 1968: 244 [original combination]
• Atretochoana eiselti — Nussbaum & Wilkinson, 1995: 334 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Taylor, E.H. 1968. The Caecilians of the World: A Taxonomic Review. University of Kansas Press: Lawrence, Kansas. vii + 848 pp. Reference page. 
• Nussbaum, R.A. & Wilkinson, M. 1995. A new genus of lungless tetrapod: a radically divergent caecilian (Amphibia: Gymnophiona). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 261(1362): 331–335. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1995.0155 Reference page. 

Links

• Frost, D. 2008. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.2 (15 July, 2008). Electronic Database accessible at www.research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. Atretochoana eiselti
• AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2010. Berkeley, California: Atretochoana eiselti. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/.
• 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species IUCN: Atretochoana eiselti  (Data Deficient) Downloaded on 13 August 2008.

Vernacular names

English: Eiselt's Caecilian