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Common Caecilians
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Common Caecilians

Caeciliidae

Caeciliidae is the family of common caecilians. They are found in Central and South America, equatorial Africa and India. Like other caecilians, they superficially resemble worms or snakes.

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2 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 55 known species

Common Caecilians

genusCaecilia

Oscaecilia

genusOscaecilia

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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 27882.