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Oscaecilia bassleri (Dunn, 1942)
Caecilia bassleri Dunn, 1942, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 91: 518. Holotype: MCZ 19401, by original designation. Type locality: "Pastaza R. (Canelos to Marañón)", Ecuador.
Oscaecilia bassleri — Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 598.
English Names
Pastaza River Caecilian (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 24).
Distribution
Lower Amazonian slopes and western Amazon Basin of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, possibly into adjacent Brazil and Bolivia.
Comment
De la Riva, Köhler, Lötters, and Reichle, 2000, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 14: 58, consider this species possibly to occur in Bolivia. Lynch, 2000 "1999", Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 23: 330, suggested that the species might be found in Colombia. Taylor and Peters, 1974, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 50: 338, commented on the Ecuadorian specimens. Duellman, 1978, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 65: 80, provided a brief account for Amazonian Ecuador. Lynch, 2007, In Diversidad Biol. Cult. Amazon. Colomb. 2: 165, reported the species in Amazonas, Colombia. See brief account for the Manu region, Peru, by Villacampa-Ortega, Serrano-Rojas, and Whitworth, 2017, Amph. Manu Learning Cent.: 262–263.
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