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Caecilia albiventris Daudin, 1803
Caecilia albiventris Daudin, 1803 "An. XI", Hist. Nat. Gen. Part. Rept., 7: 423. Holotype: MNHNP 840, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 4, and Lescure, 1988, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Sect. A, Zool., 10: 67. Type locality: "Surinam".
Caecilia albiuentris — Merrem, 1820, Tent. Syst. Amph.: 167. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
Coecilia albiventris — Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 276.
English Names
Whitebelly Caecilian (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 23).
Distribution
Suriname and eastern Ecuador, presumably in the intervening regions though not so far reported from there.
Comment
Removed from the synonymy of Caecilia tentaculata by Taylor, 1972, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 49: 1018, where it had been placed by by Gray, 1850, Cat. Spec. Amph. Coll. Brit. Mus., Batr. Grad.: 58. Taylor and Peters, 1974, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 50: 342, figured a specimen from Ecuador and commented on the range.
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