Microcaecilia savagei

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 savagei

Name

Microcaecilia savagei Donnelly & Wake, 2013: 233

• Holotype: UG/CSBD H147 (field number MAD 496), adult ♂, collected by M. Donnelly, M. Chen, G. Watkins, D. Torres, R. Allicock, and M. Baber on 19 May 1997.
• Type locality: “Guyana, Administrative Region 8 (Potaro-Siparuni), Iwokrama Forest, Cowfly Camp, 4°20′N, 58°49′W, 120 m above sea level, leaf-litter plot”.

References

Primary references

• Donnelly, M.A. & Wake, M.H. 2013. A new Microcaecilia (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) from Guyana with comments on Epicrionops niger. Copeia 2013(2): 223–231. DOI: 10.1643/CH-12-094 Reference page.