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Caecilia degenerata Dunn, 1942
Caecilia degenerata Dunn, 1942, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 91: 505. Holotype: MCZ 17383; not 17384 as stated in the description, according to Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 370. Type locality: "Garagoa, [Estado Boyacá,] eastern Colombia".
English Names
Garagoa Caecilian (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 23).
Distribution
Garagoa, (Boyacá), and Choachí and Fómeque (Cundinamarca) on the eastern slopes of the Cordillera Oriental of Colombia between 1800–2100 m.
Comment
Lynch, 2000 "1999", Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 23: 324, suggested that this species is restricted to the eastern Andes of Colombia, with specimens from Cundinamarca. See map (subsequently restricted) provided by Acosta-Galvis, Torres, and Pulido-Santacruz, 2019, ZooKeys, 884: 138. Fernández-Roldán, Lynch, and Medina-Rangel, 2023, Zootaxa, 5227: 205–228, rediagnosed the species and restricted the range to three known localities.
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