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Scolecomorphus Boulenger, 1883
Scolecomorphus Boulenger, 1883, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 5, 11: 48. Type species: Scolecomorphus kirkii Boulenger, 1883, by monotypy.
Bdellophis Boulenger, 1895, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1895: 412. Type species: Bdellophis vittatus Boulenger, 1895, by monotypy. Synonymy by Barbour and Loveridge, 1928, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 50: 178.
English Names
Tropical Caecilians (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 26).
Distribution
Southern Malawi and highlands of Tanzania, possibly into Mozambique.
Comment
Wilkinson and Nussbaum, 2006, In Exbrayat (ed.), Reprod. Biol. Phylog. Gymnophiona: 39-78 [57], diagnosed the taxon and implied that monophyly with respect to Crotaphatrema is undocumented. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 32–33, provided brief accounts, photographs, and range maps for the species.
Contained taxa (3 sp.):
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