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Caecilians feed on small subterranean creatures such as earthworms. The body is cylindrical and often darkly coloured, and the skull is bullet-shaped and strongly built. Caecilian heads have several unique adaptations, including fused cranial and jaw bones, a two-part system of jaw muscles, and a chemosensory tentacle in front of the eye. The ...
Caeciliidae is the family of common caecilians.They are found in Central and South America. Like other caecilians, they superficially resemble worms or snakes.. Although they are the most diverse of the caecilian families, the caeciliids do have a number of features in common that distinguish them from other caecilians.
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The Siphonopidae are the family of common caecilians. They are found in Central and South America. Like other caecilians, they superficially resemble worms or snakes. They are the sister group to Dermophiidae, also of South America. Siphonopids are oviparous caecilians, meaning they lay eggs. They have imperforated stapes and no inner ...
Oscaecilia is a genus of caecilians in the family Caeciliidae. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The genus is distributed in southeastern Central America (Costa Rica, Panama) and northern South America , possibly extending into southern Brazil.
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Rhinatrematidae is a family of caecilians, also known as the Neotropical tailed caecilians, American tailed caecilians. or beaked caecilians. They are found in the equatorial countries of South America. [1] [2] They are usually regarded as the most basal of the caecilian families, with numerous characteristics lacking in the other groups.
The Dermophiidae are a family of common caecilians. They are found in Central and South America, and Africa. Like other caecilians, they superficially resemble worms or snakes. They are the only viviparous caecilians (species that give birth to live young) with secondary annuli (rings around the body).