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Potomotyphlus Taylor, 1968
Potomotyphlus Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 256. Type species: Caecilia kaupii Berthold, 1859, by original designation.
Potamotyphlus Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: Errata sheet provided with copies distributed by E. H. Taylor.
Potamotyphlus — Taylor, 1969, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 48: 600. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
Common Names
Kaup's Caecilians (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 26).
Distribution
Northern South America.
Comment
Wilkinson and Nussbaum, 2006, In Exbrayat (ed.), Reprod. Biol. Phylog. Gymnophiona: 71, diagnosed the taxon. Ledesma, 2019, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 924: 1–23, reviewed the taxon, nomenclature, and its literature.
Contained taxa (1 sp.):
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