Caecilians
Gymnophiona
Gymnophiona is the group of amphibians that includes the legless caecilians and all amphibians more closely related to them than to frogs or salamanders (the "stem-caecilians"). The name derives from the Greek words γυμνος (gymnos, naked) and οφις (ophis, snake), as the caecilians were originally thought to be related to snakes.
10 branches of this order, most-observed first · about 232 known species
Fish Caecilians
familyIchthyophiidae
Common Caecilians
familyCaeciliidae
Neotropical and Afrotropical Caecilians
familyDermophiidae
South American Caecilians
familySiphonopidae
Aquatic Caecilians
familyTyphlonectidae
Beaked Caecilians
familyRhinatrematidae
Indo-African Caecilians
familyGrandisoniidae
African Caecilians
familyHerpelidae
Buried-eyed Caecilians
familyScolecomorphidae
Chikilas
familyChikilidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 27880.