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African Caecilians

Herpelidae

The Herpelidae are the family of common caecilians. They are found in Africa. Like other caecilians, they superficially resemble worms or snakes.

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2 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 11 known species

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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 476988.