Known range of Typhlonectes compressicauda.

IUCN Status: Least Concern Adult Size: Up to 52.3cm Distribution: Amazon basin of Brazil, Columbia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Surinam, Peru, and Venezuela.

  Habitat in French Guiana.

  Closeup of cloacal disc of T. compressicauda.     Note: T. compressicauda has 10

                                                                        denticulations in its circular cloacal disc; a

                                                                        distinguishing feature from the 9

                                                                        denticulations of the similar T. natans.   

**Photo Credits:

   Photos 1-3 Copyright © 2007 Jean-Pierre Vacher

   Photos 4-6 Copyright © 2007 Ian Stephen.