Caecilia gracilis

Caecilia gracilis

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: Caeciliinae
Genus: Caecilia
Species: Caecilia gracilis

Name

Caecilia gracilis Shaw, 1802

Type locality: "South America".

Holotype: Mus. Adolphi Friderici ?

Synonyms

• Caecilia gracilis Shaw, 1802
• Caecilia lumbricoïdaea Daudin, 1803
• Caecilia lumbricoides — Merrem, 1820
• Caecilia vermiformis Shaw in Gray, 1850
• Caecilia gracilis var. lumbricoidea — Duméril, 1863
• Coecilia lumbricoidaea — Fitzinger, 1864

References

• Shaw, 1802, Gen. Zool., 3(1): 597.
• Duméril, 1863, Mem. Soc. Imp. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, 9: 313.
• 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. Caecilia gracilis
• AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2010. Berkeley, California: Caecilia gracilis. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/.
• 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species IUCN: Caecilia gracilis  (Least Concern) Downloaded on 11 August 2008.

Vernacular names

English: Wormlike Caecilia