Potomotyphlus kaupii (Berthold, 1859)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Gymnophiona > Family: Typhlonectidae > Genus: Potomotyphlus > Species: Potomotyphlus kaupii

Caecilia kaupii Berthold, 1859, Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen, 1859: 181. Holotype: ZFMK 27684, according to Böhme and Bischoff, 1984, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 19: 184. Type locality: "Angostura", Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela.

Siphonops kaupii — Keferstein, 1867, Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen, 18: 361. 

Caecilia dorsalis Peters, 1877, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1877: 459. Holotype: ZMB 9092, according to Bauer, Good, and Günther, 1993, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 69: 287. Type locality: "Angostura (Ciudad Dolivar [= Ciudad Bolívar]), am Orinoco", Venezuela. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1891, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 8: 457.

Typhlonectes dorsalisPeters, 1880 "1879", Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1879: 941.

Thyphlonectes dorsalisFuhrmann, 1914, Mem. Soc. Neuchatel. Sci. Nat., 5: 113, 124.

Chthonerpeton microcephalum Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937, O Campo, 8: 66. Syntypes: Not stated; MNRJ 539 listed as "Tipo" (presumably holotype) by P. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1955, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 42: 407. Type locality: "Matto-Grosso", Brazil; given as "provàlvelmente na parte norte do então Estado de Mato Grosso na região hoje abrangida pelo Território Federal de Rondônia", Brazi, by Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 11. Synonymy by Dunn, 1942, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 91: 537.

Typhlonectes kaupii — Dunn, 1942, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 91: 537; Ginés, 1959, Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 19: 98.

Chthonefpton microcephalum  Travassos, 1955, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 42: xxxv. Error. 

Chthonespton microcephalum  Miranda-Ribeiro, 1955, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 42: 392. Error

Potomotyphlus melanochrus Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 263. Holotype: NHMW 9147, by original designation. Type locality: "Brasil". Synonymy by Nussbaum and Wilkinson, 1989, Herpetol. Monogr., 3: 38. 

Potomotyphlus kaupiiTaylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 257. 

English Names

Kaup's Caecilian (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 26).

Distribution

Amazon and Orinoco drainage systems of South America: Brazil (states of Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Goiás, Pará and Roraima), Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Peru and Venezuela (states of Amazonas, Bolívar, and Delta Amacuro); expected in northern Bolivia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Peru, Venezuela

Likely/Controversially Present: Bolivia

Comment

Marty, Ravel, Bordage, and Lescure, 2007, Bull. Soc. Herpetol. France, 121: 35–38, reported the species in French Guiana. Lynch, 2000 "1999", Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 23: 334, mapped distribution in Colombia. Taylor and Peters, 1974, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 50: 337, commented on the single Ecuadorian specimen known at the time from Pucayacú, Pastaza Province. Cintra, Silva, Gonçalves, and Silva, 2010, Herpetol. Rev., 41: 242, provided a record for the state of Maranhão, Brazil. Maciel and Hoogmoed, 2011, Zootaxa, 2984: 33–38, provided a detailed account and spot map. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 135, for comments on range and literature. Ledesma, 2019, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 924: 1–23, reviewed the taxon, nomenclature, and its literature. Señaris and Rojas-Runjaic, 2020, in Rull and Carnaval (eds.), Neotrop. Divers. Patterns Process.: 571–632, commented on range and conservation status in the Venezuelan Guayana. Vaz-Silva, Maciel, Nomura, Morais, Guerra Batista, Santos, Andrade, Oliveira, Brandão, and Bastos, 2020, Guia Ident. Anf. Goiás e Dist. Fed. Brasil Central: 185, provided an account for Goiás, Brazil.    

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