Caecilia volcani Taylor, 1969

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

Caecilia volcani Taylor, 1969, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 48: 315. Holotype: KU 203035 (not EHT-HMS 4689 [now in FMNH] as mentioned in the original publication); see Summers and Wake, 2001, Copeia, 2001: 561-562, for discussion of confusion regarding the identification of the holotype. Type locality: "El Valle de Antón, Coclé, Panamá (elev. 550 m)".

Common Names

Vulcan's Slender Caecilian (Kubicki and Arias, 2023, Mesoam. Herpetol., 4: 488).

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

Distribution

Known from within 20 km of the continental divide in the provides of Bocas del Toro, Chiriquí, and Coclé, Panama, extending into the foothills of the central and northern Caribbean versant of Costa Rica; also reported from western Isla Colón, Bocas del Toro Province, Panama (see comment).  

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Costa Rica, Panama

Comment

See Savage and Wake, 2001, Copeia, 2001: 56. Reviewed by Summers, 2001, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 721: 1-2.. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 29–30, compared this species to others found in Central America. Kubicki and Arias, 2023, Mesoam. Herpetol., 4: 488–492, provided records from Costa Rica and discussed confusion in the literature with Dermophis parviceps. Harper, Mackay, Lahanas, and Griffith, 2025, Reptiles & Amphibians, 32(e22953): 1–2, reported the species (photographic evidence only) from Isla Colón, Bocas del Toro Province, Panama. 

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