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Issue: Vol. 2719 No. 1: 10 Dec. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-12-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2719.1.3
Page range: 35–40
Abstract views: 25
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Microcaecilia (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from Guyana

Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK
Department of Vertebrates, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, 29 rue Vautier, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium Biology Department, Unit of Ecology and Systematics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2 Pleinlaan, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
Amphibia Guyana caecilians new species South America systematics taxonomy

Abstract

A new species of caeciliid caecilian, Microcaecilia iyob sp. nov., is described based on a single specimen from Guyana that was previously assigned to M. unicolor (Duméril, 1864), a species known with certainty only from French Guiana. The new species differs from other Microcaecilia in its pattern of annulation and/or major features of the dentition.

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