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| Caecilia goweri Fernandez & Lynch, 2022 |
Abstract
Caecilia pachynema is a distinctively colored species known from western Ecuador and supposedly from a remote population in the northern Cordillera Central of Colombia. Previously it had been detected that the Colombian populations of "C. pachynema’’ were likely an undescribed species. Material gathered over the past twenty years allows us to describe this new species and restrict the known distribution of C. pachynema to Ecuador.
Keywords: Caecilians, Fossorial, Neotropical, Sexual dimorphism, Taxonomy
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| Head of Caecilia goweri (MHUA 8115) in (A) dorsal, (B) lateral, and (C) ventral views, in life. Photographs by Dr. Juan Manuel Daza of MHUA. |
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| Holotype of Caecilia goweri (MHUA 3241) (A) Ventral and (B) dorsal views, respectively, of whole specimen; scale bar equals 8 mm. (C) Lateral view of the head and (D) ventral view of the terminus and phallodeum; scale bar equals 3 mm. |
Juan David Fernandez and John D. Lynch. 2022. A New Species previously confused with Caecilia pachynema (Günther, 1859) (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from the Cordillera Central of Colombia. Amphibians and Reptiles: Diversity and Natural History. DOI: 10.22201/fc.25942158e.2021.02.278
