Family: Caecilidae (Rafinesque, 1814); Common Caecilians
Genus Boulengerula
(Tornier 1896)
Boulenger's Caecilians
Boulengerula boulengeri
(Tornier 1896)
Boulenger's Caecilian
Distribution: Usambara and Magrotto Mountains of
Northeastern Tanzania.
Boulengerula changamwensis (Loveridge 1932)
Changamwe Caecilian
Distribution: The Changamwe and Shimba Hills regions of western Kenya to the Shire Hills region of southern Malawi.
Boulengerula denhardti (Nieden 1912)
no common name
Distribution: Known only from type locality in southern Kenya.
Boulengerula niedeni (Müller,
Measey, Loader, & Malonza 2005)
Sagalla Caecilian
Distribution: Sagalla Hills, southern Kenya.
Boulengerula fischeri (Nussbaum & Hinkel 1994)
no common name
Distribution: Known only from the type locality in the
Cyangugu region of Rwanda.
Boulengerula taitana (Loveridge 1935)
Taita Mountains Caecilian
Distribution: Taita Mountains of Southeastern Kenya.
Boulengerula uluguruensis (Barbour & Loveridge 1928)
Uluguru Caecilian
Distribution: Nguru and Uluguru Mountains of western
Tanzania.
Genus Brasilotyphlus
(Taylor 1968)
Brazilian Caecilians
Brasilotyphlus
braziliensis (Dunn 1945)
Brazilian Caecilian
Distribution: Amazonas and Amapa regions of Brazil.
Genus Caecilia
(Linnaeus 1758)
Common Caecilians
Caecilia abitaguae
(Dunn 1942)
Abitagua Caecilian
Distribution: Oriente, Pastaza, and Morona-Santiago
provinces of Ecuador.
Caecilia albiventris (Daudin 1803)
Whitebelly Caecilian
Distribution: Known only from two separate locations:
Surinam and eastern Ecuador. Presumed to occur in between.
Caecilia antioquiaensis (Taylor 1968)
Antioquia Caecilian
Distribution: Known only from the Antiaquia region of
Columbia.
Caecilia attenuata (Taylor 1968)
Santa Rosa Caecilian
Distribution: Santa Rosa, Ecuador and neighboring Peru.
Caecilia bokermanni (Taylor 1968)
Bokermann's Caecilian
Distribution: Eastern Ecuador and Mamcayacu, Brazil.
Caecilia caribea (Dunn 1942)
Pensilvania Caecilian
Distribution: Northern Columbia.
Caecilia corpulenta (Taylor 1968)
Solid Caecilian
Distribution: Boyacá, Columbia.
Caecilia crassisquama (Taylor 1968)
Normandia Caecilian
Distribution: Normandia, Ecuador.
Caecilia degenrata (Dunn 1942)
Garagoa Caecilian
Distribution: Boyacá and Cundinamarca, Columbia.
Caecilia dissosea (Taylor 1968)
Rio Santiago Caecilian
Distribution: Amazon drainage regions of Peru and Ecuador.
Caecilia dunni (Hershkovitz 1938)
Dunn's Caecilian
Distribution: Napo and Pastaza provinces of Ecuador.
Caecilia flavopunctata (Roze & Solano 1963)
Yellow-spotted Caecilian
Distribution: Known only from type locality in Albarico,
Venezuela.
Caecilia gracilis (Shaw 1802)
Slender Caecilian
Distribution: French Guiana, Surinam, northern Brazil, and
northeastern Peru.
Caecilia guntheri (Dunn 1942)
Gunther's Caecilian
Distribution: Western Slopes of Cordillera Occidental of
Columbia and northern Ecuador.
Caecilia inca (Taylor 1973)
Fundo Sinchona Caecilian
Distribution: Known only from type locality:
"Fundo Sinchona", Peru.
Caecilia isthmica (Cope 1877)
Isthmus Caecilian
Distribution: Eastern Panama and western Columbia.
Caecilia leucocephala (Taylor 1968)
White-headed Caecilian
Distribution: Eastern Panama to northwestern Ecuador.
Caecilia marcusi (Wake 1984)
Villa Tunari Caecilian
Distribution: Lowlands and foothills of Santa Cruz and
Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Caecilia mertensi (Taylor 1973)
Merten's Caecilian
Distribution: Unknown. The type locality is "Seychelle Isle"
but is presumed to actually be from South America.
Caecilia nigricans (Boulenger 1902)
Rio Lita Caecilian
Distribution: Pacific drainages of northern Ecuador and
Columbia east to northern Venezuela; eastern Panama.
Caecilia occidentalis (Taylor 1968)
Cauca Caecilian
Distribution: Northern Columbia.
Caecilia orientalis (Taylor 1968)
La Bonita Caecilian
Distribution: Amazonian Ecuador.
Caecilia pachynema (Günther 1859)
Intac Caecilian
Distribution: Caribbean and pacific draianges of Columbia,
south to western Ecuador.
Caecilia perdita (Taylor 1968)
Andagoya Caecilian
Distribution: Northwestern Columbia.
Caecilia pressula (Taylor 1968)
Marudi Mountains Caecilian
Distribution: Murudi Mountains of Guyana.
Caecilia subdermalis (Taylor 1968)
Moscopan Caecilian
Distribution: Western slopes of Andes Mountains in
Columbia and northern Ecuador.
Caecilia subnigricans (Dunn 1942)
Magdalena Valley Caecilian
Distribution: The Magdalena Valley of Columbia and nearby
Falcon, Venezuela.
Caecilia subterminalis (Taylor 1968)
Taylor's Caecilian
Distribution: Imprecise. Known only from a specimen labeled
as "Ecuador".
Caecilia tentaculata
(Linnaeus 1758)
Linnaeus' Caecilian
Distribution: Panama south through the Amazon basin of South
America and central Peru.
Caecilia tenuissima (Taylor 1973)
Guayaquil Caecilian
Distribution: Extreme southwestern Columbia to Guayaquil,
Ecuador.
Caecilia thompsoni (Boulenger 1902)
Thompson's Caecilian
Distribution: Tolima, Cauca, Cundinamarca, and Boyacá
Provinces of Columbia.
Caecilia volcani (Taylor 1969)
Cocle Caecilian
Distribution: Bocas del Toro, Chiriqui, and Cocle, Panama.
Genus Dermophis
(Peters 1880)
Mexican Caecilians
Dermophis costaricensis (Taylor 1955)
Costa Rican Caecilian
Distribution: Atlantic slopes of Costa Rica.
Dermohpis glandulosus
(Taylor 1955)
no common name
Distribution: Eastern Costa Rica and western Panama.
Dermophis gracilior (Günther 1902)
no common name
Distribution: Costa Rica and Panama.
Dermophis mexicanus (Duméril & Bibron 1841)
Mexican Caecilian
Distribution: Veracruz, Mexico south through northeastern
Honduras, western Nicaragua, and Guatemala. Absent from the Yucatan
Penninsula of Mexico.
Dermophis oaxacae (Mertens 1930)
Oaxacan Caecilian
Distribution: West-central Mexico, from Jalisco south to
Chiapas.
Dermophis occidentalis (Taylor 1955)
no common name
Distribution: Pacific slopes of Costa Rica.
Dermophis parviceps (Dunn 1924)
La Loma Caecilian
Distribution: Southern Costa Rica, northwestern Panama, and
northern Columbia.
Genus Gegeneophis
(Peters 1880)
Forest Caecilians
Gegeneophis carnosus
(Beddome 1870)
Periah Peak Caecilian
Distribution: Kerala, southern India.
Gegeneophis danieli (Giri, Wilkinson, & Gower 2003)
Amboli Caecilian
Distribution: known only from the type locality in the Western
Ghats region of India.
Gegeneophis fulleri (Alcock 1904)
Kuttal Caecilian, Fuller's Caecilian
Distribution: Cachar District, Assam, India.
Gegeneophis goaensis (Bhatta, Dinesh, Prashanth, & Kulkarni 2007)
Goa Caecilian
Distribution: Known
only from the type locality in Northern Goa, India.
Gegeneophis krishni (Pillai & Ravichandran 1999)
no common name
Distribution: Known only from the type locality: Krishna
Farms, Gurpur, Karnataka, India.
Gegeneophis madhavaorum (Bhatta & Srinivasa 2004)
no common name
Distribution: Known only from the type locality: Mudur Village,
Kundapura Taluk, Udupi District, Karnataka State, India.
Gegeneophis mhadeiensis (Bhatta, Dinesh, Prashanth, & Kulkarni
2007)
Mhade Caecilian
Distribution:
Gegeneophis nadkarnii (Bhatta & Prashanth 2004)
no common name
Distribution: Western Ghats, Goa, India.
Gegeneophis ramaswamii (Taylor 1964)
Tenmalai Caecilian, Ramaswami's Caecilian
Distribution: Western Ghats region of Southern India.
Gegeneophis seshachari (Ravichandran, Gower, & Wilkinson 2003)
no common name
Distribution: Known only from type locality: Dorle Village,
Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India.
Genus Geotrypetes
(Peters 1880)
West African Caecilians
Geotrypetes angeli
(Parker 1936)
Angel's Caecilian
Distribution: Western Guinea
Geotrypetes pseudoangeli (Taylor 1968)
False Angel's Caecilian
Distribution: Liberia
Geotrypetes seraphini (Duméril 1859)
Gaboon Caecilian
Distribution: Liberian coast south to the Democratic Republicof Congo.
Genus Grandisonia
(Taylor 1968)
Seychelles Caecilians
Grandisonia alternans
(Stejneger 1893)
Stejneger's Caecilian
Distribution: Seychelles Islands.
Grandisonia brevis (Boulenger 1911)
Mahe Caecilian
Distribution: Seychelles Islands.
Grandisonia diminutiva (Taylor 1968)
Praslin Caecilian
Distribution: Praslin Island, Seychelles.
Grandisonia larvata (Ahl 1934)
Indian Ocean Caecilian
Distribution: Seychelles Islands.
Grandisonia sechellensis (Boulenger 1911)
Seychelles Caecilian
Distribution: Seychelles Islands.
Genus Gymnopis (Peters
1874)
Wet Forest Caecilians
Gymnopis multiplicata
(Peters 1874)
Varagua Caecilian
Distribution: Southeastern Guatemala south to Panama;
northwestern Costa Rica south to western Panama.
Gymnopis syntrema (Cope 1866)
Mountain Caecilian
Distribution: Central and eastern Guatemala; Belize.
Genus Herpele (Peters
1880)
Congo Caecilians
Herpele multiplicata
(Nieden 1912)
Victoria Caecilian
Distribution: Cameroon.
Herpele squalastoma (Stutchbury 1836)
Congo Caecilian
Distribution: Coastal western Africa from Cameroon south to
the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Genus Hypogeophis
(Peters 1880)
Frigate Island Caecilians
Hypogeophis rostratus
(Cuvier 1829)
Frigate Island Caecilian, Sharp-nosed Caecilian
Distribution: Seychelles Islands.
Genus Idiocranium
(Parker 1936)
Makamunu Assumbo Caecilians
Idiocranium russeli
(Parker 1936)
Makamunu Assumbo Caecilian
Distribution: Known only from the type locality: Makamunu
Assumbo, Cameroon.
Genus Indotyphlus
(Taylor 1960)
Battersby's Caecilians
Indotyphlus battersbyi
(Taylor 1960)
Battersby's Caecilian
Distribution: Known only from type locality: Pune,
Maharashtra, India.
Indotyphlus maharashtraensis (Giri, Wilkinson, & Gower
2003)
no common name
Distribution: Known only from type locality: Dhanagarwada,
Humbarli village, near Koyna, Satara District, Maharashtra, India
Genus Luetkenotyphlus
(Taylor 1960)
Sao Paulo Caecilians
Luetkenotyphlus
brasiliensis (Lütken 1851)
Sao Paulo Caecilian
Distribution: Southern Brazil, extreme northeastern Argentina.
Genus Microcaecilia
(Taylor 1968)
Tiny Caecilians
Microcaecilia albiceps
(Boulenger 1822)
White Tiny Caecilian
Distribution: Amazonian slopes of Columbia and Ecuador.
Microcaecilia rabei (Roze & Solano 1963)
Venezuelan Tiny Caecilian
Distribution: Eastern Venezuela to Surinam.
Microcaecilia supernumeraria (Taylor 1969)
Brazilian Tiny Caecilian
Distribution: Known only from type locality: Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Microcaecilia taylori (Nussbaum & Hoogmoed 1979)
Taylor's Tiny Caecilian
Distribution: Surinam.
Microcaecilia unicolor (Duméril 1863)
Cayenne Tiny Caecilian
Distribution: French Guiana, Surinam, and Guyana.
Genus Mimosiphonops (
Taylor 1968)
Worm Patterned Caecilians
Mimosiphonops reinhardti
(Wilkinson & Nussbaum 1992)
Reinhardt's Caecilian
Distribution: Unknown; assumed to be eastern Brazil.
Mimosiphonops vermiculatus (Taylor 1968)
Worm-Patterned Caecilian
Distribution: Southern Brazil.
Genus Oscaecilia
(taylor 1968)
South American Caecilians
Oscaecilia bassleri
(Dunn 1942)
Pastaza River Caecilian
Distribution: Amazonian Ecuador and Peru.
Oscaecilia elongata (Dunn 1942)
Yavisa Caecilian
Distribution: Known only from Yavisa, Panama near
Columbian Border.
Oscaecilia equatorialis (Taylor 1973)
Equatorial Caecilian
Distribution: Known only from the type locality: Pinchicha,
Ecuador.
Oscaecilia hypereumeces (Taylor 1968)
Joinville Caecilian
Distribution: Known only from presumed type locality: Santa
Catarina, Brazil.
Oscaecilia koepckeorum (Wake 1984)
Quista Cocha Caecilian
Distribution: Known only from the type locality: Loreto, Peru.
Oscaecilia ochrocephala (Cope 1866)
Yellow-headed Caecilian
Distribution: Northwestern Columbia and central Panama.
Oscaecilia osae (Lahanas & Savage 1992)
Airstrip Caecilian
Distribution: Known only from the type locality: Peninsula de
Osa, Costa Rica.
Oscaecilia polyzona (Fischer in Peters 1880)
New Granada Caecilian
Distribution: Magdalena and Cauca Valleys of Columbia.
Oscaecilia zweifeli (Taylor 1968)
Tributary Caecilian
Distribution: Guyana.
Genus Parvicaecilia
(Taylor 1968)
Columbian Caecilians
Parvicaecilia nicefori
(Barbour 1924)
Honda Caecilian
Distribution: Magdalena Valley of Columbia.
Parvicaecilia pricei (Dunn 1944)
El Centro Caecilian
Distribution: Upper Magdalena Valley of Columbia.
Genus Praslinia
(Boulenger 1909)
Cooper's Caecilians
Praslinia cooperi
(Boulenger 1909)
Cooper's Black Caecilian
Distribution: Mahe and Praslin Islands, Seychelles.
Genus Schistometopum
(Parker 1944)
Guinea Caecilians
Schistometopum gregorii
(Boulenger 1895)
Witu Caecilian, Mud-dwelling Caecilian
Distribution: Kenya, Tanzania.
Schistometopum thomense (Bocage 1873)
Sao Tome Caecilian
Distribution: Sao Tomé and Principé Islands, Gulf of Guinea,
Africa.
Genus Siphonops
(Wagler 1828)
Ringed Caecilians
Siphonops annulatus
(Mikan 1820)
Ringed Caecilian
Distribution: Northern Columbia west to the Guianas; south to
Paraguay and northern Argentina.
Siphonops hardyi (Boulenger 1888)
Hardy's Caecilian
Distribution: Southeastern Brazil.
Siphonops insulanus (Ihering 1911)
Insular Caecilian
Distribution: Known only from type locality in Brazil.
Siphonops leucoderus (Taylor 1968)
Salvador Caecilian
Distribution: Known only from type locality: Bahia, Brazil.
Siphonops paulensis (Boettger 1892)
Boettger's Caecilian
Distribution: Eastern and southeastern Brazil, northern
Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia.
Genus Sylvacaecilia
(Taylor 1970)
Aleku Caecilians
Sylvacaecilia grandisonae
(Taylor 1970)
Aleku Caecilian
Distribution: Southwestern Ethiopia
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Known distribution of Caecilidae in North and South America.
Known distribution of Caecilidae in Africa and the Seychelles Archipelago.
Known distribution of Caecilidae in Asia.
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