Caecilia disossea Taylor, 1968

Class: Amphibia > Order: Gymnophiona > Family: Caeciliidae > Genus: Caecilia > Species: Caecilia disossea

Caecilia disossea Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 375. Holotype: AMNH 42832, by original designation. Type locality: "mouth of the Río Santiago, Perú (arising in southern Ecuador, emptying into the Marañon)".

Common Names

Bony Caecilian (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 4: xxxi)

Ilulo Óseo (Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 4: xxxi).

Rio Santiago Caecilian (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 23).

Distribution

Amazonian Peru and Ecuador (Sucumbíos, Orellana, and Pastaza provinces); likely to be found in adjacent Brazil and Colombia. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador, Peru

Likely/Controversially Present: Brazil, Colombia

Comment

Taylor and Peters, 1974, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 50: 341, comments on specimens from Napo, Ecuador. Duellman, 1978, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 65: 79, provided a brief account for Amazonian Ecuador. Fernández-Roldán and Rueda-Almonacid, 2022, Rev. Latinoam. Herpetol., 5: 54, provided a dot range map. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 4: 329–330, provided an account, with photographs, which summarized identification, morphology, systematics, natural history, distribution (including a dot map for Ecuador), and conservation.   

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