Hypogeophis

Hypogeophis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gymnophiona

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

Familia: Grandisoniidae
Genus: Hypogeophis
Species (7): H. alternans – H. brevis – H. larvatus – H. montanus – H. pti – H. rostratus – H. sechellensis

Name

Hypogeophis Peters, 1880: 936

• Type species: Coecilia rostrata Cuvier, 1829, by subsequent designation by Parker (1958: 74).

Synonymy

• Grandisonia Taylor, 1968

References

Primary references

• Peters, W.C.H. 1880. Über die Eintheilung der Caecilien und insbesondere über die Gattungen Rhinatrema und Gymnopis. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussische Akademie des Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1879: 924–945. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Maddock, S.T., Wilkinson, M., Nussbaum, R.A. & Gower, D.J. 2017. A new species of small and highly abbreviated caecilian (Gymnophiona: Indotyphlidae) from the Seychelles island of Praslin, and a recharacterization of Hypogeophis brevis Boulenger, 1911. Zootaxa 4329(4): 301–326. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4329.4.1 Reference page. 
• Maddock, S.T., Wilkinson, M. & Gower, D.J. 2018. A new species of small, long-snouted Hypogeophis Peters, 1880 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Indotyphlidae) from the highest elevations of the Seychelles island of Mahé. Zootaxa 4450(3): 359–375. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4450.3.3 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Seychelles Caecilians

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