Microcaecilia pricei

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: Siphonopidae
Genus: Microcaecilia
Species: Microcaecilia pricei

Name

Microcaecilia pricei (Dunn, 1944)

• Holotype: MCZ 36902, collected by E.R. Dunn on 24 December 1943.
• Type locality: “El Centro, [Barranca Bermeja, Departamento de] Santander, alt. about 150 m”, Colombia in the Magdalena Valley, Caribbean drainage.

Combinations

• Gymnophis pricei Dunn, 1944: 473 [original combination]
• Parvicaecilia pricei — Taylor, 1968: 546 [subsequent combination]
• Microcaecilia pricei — Wilkinson, O’Connor & Nussbaum, 2013: 7 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Dunn, E.R. 1944. Notes in Colombian herpetology, III. Caldasia 2: 473–474.
• Taylor, E.H. 1968. The Caecilians of the World: A Taxonomic Review. University of Kansas Press: Lawrence, Kansas. vii + 848 pp. Reference page. 
• Wilkinson, M., O’Connor, A. & Nussbaum, R.A. 2013. Taxonomic status of the Neotropical caecilian genera Brasilotyphlus Taylor, 1968, Microcaecilia Taylor, 1968 and Parvicaecilia Taylor, 1968 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Siphonopidae). Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 744: 1–12. hdl: 2027.42/122718 Reference page. 

Links

• IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2018. IUCN: Microcaecilia pricei  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T59588A85909346. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T59588A85909346.en. Accessed on 09 September 2022.

Vernacular names

English: El Centro Caecilian