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Family: Rhinatrematidae (Nussbaum, 1977); Beaked Caecilians



Genus Epicrionops (Boulenger 1883)
Beaked Caecilians

Epicrionops bicolor (Boulenger 1883)
Two-colored Caecilian
Disribution: Eastern and western slopes of the Andes Mountains in Ecaudor and northern Peru; also from the Rio Cauca Valley in Columbia.

Epicrionops columbianus (Rendahl & Vestergren 1938)
El Tambo Caecilian
Distribution: Western slopes of the Cordillera Occidental in Cauca, Columbia.

Epicrionops lativittatus (Taylor 1968)
Eastern Beaked Caecilian
Distribution: Known only from a questionable type locality in eastern Peru.

Epicrionops marmoratus (Taylor 1968)
Marbled Beaked Caecilian
Distribution: Santo Domigo de los Colorados, Ecuador and near Mindo, Ecuador

Epicrionops niger (Dunn 1942)
Black Beaked Caecilian
Distribution: Guyana to northeastern Venezuela

Epicrionops parkeri (Dunn 1942)
Parker's beaked Caecilian
Distribution: Known only from type locality near Medellin, Columbia.

Epicrionops peruvianus (Boulenger 1902)
Maracapata Valley Caecilian
Distribution: Marcapata Valley of Eastern Peru.

Epicrionops petersi (Taylor 1968)
Peter's Beaked Caecilian
Distribution: Ecuador and Peru



Genus Rhinatrema (Duméril & Bibron 1841)
Two-lined Caecilians

Rhinatrema bivittatum (Guérrin-Méneville 1838)
Two-lined Caecilian
Distribution: French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, and Brazil



 

Known distribution of Rhinatrematidae. Modified from Pough et. al. (1998) and Pillai & Ravichandran (1999).


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