caecilian
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Two red-tailed coral snakes have been observed competing over a caecilian in the first documented wild case of kleptoparasitism within the family Elapidae.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2024
“It’s like they’re from another planet,” said Carlos Jared, a caecilian researcher at the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, and an author of the study.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
A particular dental feature tipped off the paleontologists that they had discovered the world’s oldest caecilian fossil.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 26, 2023
The Cayenne caecilian, in this journalist's opinion, produced sounds a bit like exaggerated yet strangely half-hearted armpit farts, while the mata mata turtle almost sounded like a purring cat.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2022
These include one genus and species of caecilian, one genus, including three species of salamanders, and 14 genera and 32 species of anurans.
From A Distributional Study of the Amphibians of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico by Duellman, William E.
