Showing posts with label Lungless Amphibian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lungless Amphibian. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 8, 2017

[Herpetology • 2017] Evolution of Coprophagy and Nutrient Absorption in A Cave Salamander

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Grotto Salamanders,  Eurycea spelaea  (Stejneger, 1892)   DOI:  10.3897/SubtBiol.24.15013   Abstract The transition from car...
Saturday, August 22, 2015

[Herpetology • 2009] Cryptotriton sierraminensis • A New Species of Cryptotriton (Caudata: Plethodontidae) from eastern Guatemala

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Cryptotriton sierraminensis Vásquez- Almazán , Rovito, Good & Wake, 2009 Fig. 2.  (A) Dorsal view of the holotype of  Cryptotrit...
Wednesday, August 8, 2012

[Herpetology • 2011] Discovery of the largest lungless tetrapod, Atretochoana eiselti (Taylor, 1968) (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Typhlonectidae) in its natural habitat in Brazilian Amazonia

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Abstract  We report the occurrence of the limbless and lungless tetrapod, Atretochoana eiselti , in two widely separated Brazilia...

[Herpetology • 1998] The largest lungless tetrapod: a second specimen of Atretochoana eiselti (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Typhlonectidae) from Brazil

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The discovery is reported of a second specimen  of the radically divergent lungless aquatic caecilian  Atretochoana eiselti (Taylor...

[Herpetology • 1995] Atretochoana (originally Typhlonectes) eiselti • A New Genus of Lungless Tetrapod: A Radically Divergent Caecilian (Amphibia: Gymnophiona)

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Abstract Lunglessness is rare in the Tetrapoda and previously recorded only in salamanders (Amphibia: Caudata). Here we report lung...

[Herpetology • 2010] Caecilita iwokramae • A new lungless caecilian (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) from Guyana

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Caecilita iwokramae  Wake & Donnelly 2010 Abstract We report the discovery of a single specimen of a small, terrestrial, lung...