🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Cold tolerance estimates for the Rio Cauca #Caecilian (Typhlonectes natans), a novel amphibian invader in the USA, published in Aquatic Invasions

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🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 #Caecilians maintain a functional long-wavelength-sensitive cone opsin gene despite signatures of relaxed selection and more than 200 million years of fossoriality, published in Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social

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🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 CaecilianTraits, an individual level trait database of #Caecilians worldwide, published in Scientific Data

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 An overview of the postcranial osteology of #caecilians (Gymnophiona, Lissamphibia), published in The Anatomical Record @anatrecord.bsky.social

anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 #Caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) as prey: a global synthesis, published in Journal of Natural History

(Image by Henrik Bringsøe and Niels Poul Dreyer, of two coral snakes feeding on a caecilian) www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Ichthyophis yangi: A new species of Caecilian from China.
sciencythoughts.blogspot.com/2024/12/icht...

The most exciting find of my recent fieldwork: the Montane Mahé Caecilian. Only found on the highest peak in Seychelles, this Critically Endangered amphibian had not been observed since 2015.

📷: @simonmaddock.bsky.social

🇸🇨 Seychelles has 8 endemic caecilian species. Seven of them can all be found in Morne Seychellois National Park on Mahé island. These limbless amphibians are highly understudied due to their underground burrowing lifestyle. However, the difficulty makes finding one very rewarding!

Research 2025 #YearInReview 💧 Biologists found an amphibian called a caecilian hiding away in a Florida canal in 2019. The species is native to South America, but a recent study by Coleman Sheehy and team show that they're now firmly established in Florida.

Paper:
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Here's a Nakon Si Thammarat Caecilian (Ichthyophis supachaii), observed in a shallow rivulet near a forest trail in peninsular Thailand, 2023. Caecilians are amphibians, & generally live underground, although there are some completely aquatic species. #herps #caecilians #NaturePhotography 🌿

#NewSpecies!
New caecilian from #vietnam just snuck in:

Ichthyophis griseivermis

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/7E85E3AC-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/vz.7...
#VertebrateZoology #IchthyophisGriseivermis

#FAIRdata
#OA #taxonomy #biodiversity #nature #conservation #herps #amphibia #caecilian

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Scent-driven self-recognition in #caecilian amphibians (Gymnophiona): an experimental study in Gegeneophis, publsihed in Journal of Vertebrate Biology

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