Grandisoniidae
Grandisoniidae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Gymnophiona |
Clade: | Apoda |
Family: | Grandisoniidae Lescure, Renous & Gasc, 1986 |
Genera | |
Gegeneophis |
The Grandisoniidae are a family of common caecilians found in Africa, Seychelles and India.[1][2] Like other caecilians, they superficially resemble worms or snakes. The family was formerly known as Indotyphlidae.[1]
Taxonomy
The genera in this family were originally placed in family
Idiocranium, Indotyphlus, Praslinia and Sylvacaecilia were segregated into family Indotyphlidae, named after the tribe Indotyphlini, which was used by Lescure et al (1986) for the Indian genera, Gegeneophis and Indotyphlus.[1][3] However, it was later pointed out that the name Grandisoniidae is the appropriate family-group name because, according to rules of the Nomenclatural Code, a name published at higher rank, Grandisoniinae, has precedence over a name of lower rank published in the same work, Indotyphlini.[4][1][2]
Genera and species
- Genus Gegeneophis
- Genus Grandisonia
- Genus Hypogeophis
- Hypogeophis brevis
- Hypogeophis montanus
- Hypogeophis pti
- Hypogeophis rostratus
- Genus Idiocranium
- Idiocranium russeli
- Genus Indotyphlus
- Indotyphlus battersbyi
- Indotyphlus maharashtraensis
- Genus Praslinia
- Praslinia cooperi
- Genus Sylvacaecilia
- Sylvacaecilia grandisonae
References
- ^ Frost, Darrel R. "Grandisoniidae". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
- ^ a b "Grandisoniidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
- ISSN 1175-5326.
- ^ Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 1–738
- Frost, Darrel R. (2019). "Indotyphlidae". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
- AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2004. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. Available: http://amphibiaweb.org/. Retrieved 26 August 2004