Caecilia pulchraserrana Acosta-Galvis, Torres, and Pulido-Santacruz, 2019

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

Caecilia pulchraserrana Acosta-Galvis, Torres, and Pulido-Santacruz, 2019, ZooKeys, 884: 141. Holotype: IAvH-Am-15487, by original designation. Type locality: "Colombia, Santander Department, El Carmen de Chucurí Municipality, vereda La Belleza, Cascajales River, 06°34′8.9″N, 73°34′20.2″W, 789 m a.s.l." http://zoobank.org/C3B495CC-5594-4586-B636-71D9C3ABFF78 

Common Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Known from two adjacent, relictual tropical wet forest localities on the western slope of the Cordillera Oriental of Colombia (Serranía de los Yariquíes) at elevations between 731 to 789 m elevation. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia

Endemic: Colombia

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