🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Rediscovering a #caecilian in the largest megalopolis of South America: an unexpectedly abundant population of Luetkenotyphlus brasiliensis
in The Herpetological Journal
www.thebhs.org/publications...
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Additional Specimens and New Localities of the Matang #Caecilian, Ichthyophis biangularis (Amphibia, Gymnophiona, Ichthyophiidae), with Notes on Genetic and Geographic Diversity and Natural History in Current Herpetology
Picture by authors: clutch with female
doi.org/10.5358/hsj....
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Expanding the distribution of the #caecilian Luetkenotyphlus fredi in the Atlantic Forest of Espírito Santo, south-eastern Brazil, with taxonomic notes in The Herpetological Bulletin
www.thebhs.org/publications...
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 A new species of Gegeneophis #caecilian (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Grandisoniidae) from the Western Ghats of northern Kerala, India in Zootaxa
Meet Gegeneophis bavali! 🥳
www.mapress.com/zt/article/v...
Persimmink (Persimmon + Mink)
Chicken of the Woodcock (Chicken of the Woods + Woodcock)
Eggplatypus (Eggplant + Platypus)
Caeciliantro (Cilantro + Caecilian)
Recent new Crop Critters!
#oc #cropcritters #crop #critters #creaturedesign #talemon #mink #woodcock #platypus #caecilian
Realistic illustration of a Cayenne caecilian (Typhlonectes compressicauda), a dark-colored, legless amphibian.
#ProjectAnimalia 789: Cayenne caecilian (Typhlonectes compressicauda)
A legless amphibian from South America!
A bit overwhelmed this week, it was nice to escape into this dark texture.
#sciart #dailyart #animalart #scientificillustration #medart #illustration #animalart #caecilian
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Cold tolerance estimates for the Rio Cauca #Caecilian (Typhlonectes natans), a novel amphibian invader in the USA, published in Aquatic Invasions
aquaticinvasions.arphahub.com/articles.php...
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Scent-driven self-recognition in #caecilian amphibians (Gymnophiona): an experimental study in Gegeneophis, publsihed in Journal of Vertebrate Biology
bioone.org/journals/jou...
The holotype of Ichthyophis griseivermis in life in situ, adult female.
#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
#temnovember2025 day 12: Funcusvermis
Ok, now we have a couple of taxa that might be a bit controversial for #temnovember (due to them being lissamphibians), starting with #Funcusvermis,a stem-caecilian from the late #Triassic
#paleoart #sciart #amphibian #temnospondyl #caecilian
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Establishment of aquatic Rio Cauca #Caecilian, Typhlonectes natans (Fischer 1880) (Gymnophiona: Typhlonectidae), in Florida, with notes on their relative abundance, distribution, and natural history
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Re-diagnoses of rhinatrematid genera and description of a new species of Guyanese Rhinatrema Duméril & Bibron, 1841 #caecilian
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 First record of the Normandia #Caecilian Caecilia crassisquama Taylor, 1968
(Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from Peru
Why are amphibians so important? 🐸 They're tiny but irreplaceable! Lets uncover four vital reasons these creatures are essential for a thriving planet.
#amphibians #frog #salamander #caecilian #ecosystem #conservation #addHerper
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4NV...
February 14, 2025. Apparently past me wasn't happy with this one when it came out, i was really excited by how smug the frog looked in the reference but thought it came out bad. In my current eyes, though, it looks great! What a smug looking frogge. Frog description: A smug looking frog looking at the camera with a tilted head while he sits on a branch.
February 15, 2025. I really love how this frog looks, the fleshy bulb on his head is green, as opposed to his blue body, and it looks like he's got a leaf hat! I should've colored this one. Frog description: A frog with a fleshy outcropping on the top of his head that looks very similar to a thick leaf, or perhaps a beret.
February 16, 2025. Caecilians are amphibians! This, is a long frogge, not a snake. Frog description: A Caecilian, a snake-like amphibian with a blunt tapered head and small eyes and rings like an earth worm. It is curled up into a loose pretzel shape.
February 17, 2025. The turtle frog is not a handsome frog, but he is the cute sort of ugly that makes me giddy. What a goofy looking critter. Frog description: A turtle frog, doing his best to look photogenic. He's doing a really good job, sitting up and everything, don't mind that he looks like a live action teenage mutant ninja turtle.
Day 45-48 of my daily drawing challenge! Have you ever heard of a caecilian? because I hadn't until I went looking for new types of amphibians to draw for 'frog' month. I love things that look like snakes but aren't (like legless lizards!)
#Frog #Amphibian #Caecilian #Art #Illustration #DailyDrawing
Almost the weekend! Georges the caecilian (Herpele squalostoma) is clearly feeling it too! 🪱
#NameItToSaveIt #Caecilian #Amphibians @smnstuttgart.bsky.social
(A) Island connectivity with sea level change. Present-day emergent land is coloured for cluster membership inferred with DAPC (see B), and islands unsampled in this study are shown in white. Sampling localities are shown by green dots. Elevation (above sea level) is shown by contour lines (200 m spacing). Smaller islands (Ste. Anne and Curieuse) are circled for clarity. The grey shaded area represents exposed land, with the shade of grey in the key indicating metres below current sea level. Bathymetry data from the GEBCO 2024 repository. Inset map shows position of the Seychelles (indicated with a green loop) relative to Africa. Latitude and longitude given in decimal degrees. (B) DAPC of K = 4, with eight PCs and two eigenvalues. (C) Hypogeophis rostratus, photographed by STM.
New #Seychelles #caecilian paper from the awesome Miranda Sherlock: Submerged Corridors of Ancient Gene Flow in an Island Amphibian. 𝐻𝑦𝑝𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑠 pops. connected by palaeo-islands @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @nhm-london.bsky.social 🧪
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
(A) Island connectivity with sea level change. Present-day emergent land is coloured for cluster membership inferred with DAPC (see B), and islands unsampled in this study are shown in white. Sampling localities are shown by green dots. Elevation (above sea level) is shown by contour lines (200 m spacing). Smaller islands (Ste. Anne and Curieuse) are circled for clarity. The grey shaded area represents exposed land, with the shade of grey in the key indicating metres below current sea level. Bathymetry data from the GEBCO 2024 repository. Inset map shows position of the Seychelles (indicated with a green loop) relative to Africa. Latitude and longitude given in decimal degrees. (B) DAPC of K = 4, with eight PCs and two eigenvalues. (C) Hypogeophis rostratus, photographed by STM.
Structure plot with 10 runs permuted in CLUMPAK and plotted in distruct for K = 2 and K = 3. Vertical bars represent individuals (n = 77). Labels above the plots correspond to the major genetic clusters. Colour codes as in (1B).
New paper led by Miranda Sherlock on "Submerged Corridors of Ancient Gene Flow in an Island Amphibian". In this paper we found that populations of the Seychelles #caecilian Hypogeophis rostratus would have been connected by palaeo-islands across Seychelles
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Day 07 - Caecilian, the limbless amphibian. So far, this noodle was the hardest to draw. I wanted to create a luminous effect too, but not sure what I did here
#digitalart #krita #caecilian #amfibuary #art
Ellen Sharkey with Hypogeophis alternans
Three amphibian biologists under a rock
Proud supervisor alert 🚨
@ellensharkey.bsky.social is looking at the impacts of climate change on Seychelles caecilians for her PhD. Today she encountered her first ever #caecilian and it was a beauty ... a large female Stejneger's Caecilian (Hypogeophis alternans)
@seychellesherps.bsky.social 🧪🐸
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Cutaneous bacterial microbiome description and new locality record of the poorly known striped #caecilian Ichthyophis asplenius Taylor, 1965 in Bruneian Borneo
In Journal of Natural History
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 The Second Species of #caecilian in China
In Asian Herpetological Research
Meet Ichthyophis yangi from Yunnan China!
Happy New Year #caecilian lovers!
There’re 224 species of caecilian (Gymnophiona) as of 31/DEC/2024 according to @AmphibiaWeb
Of the 88 new species of amphibians in 2024, just 2 were caecilians. Encouraging naturalists to get out there and dig; new species are waiting for you!
Mike, an anthro caecilian with a brown ponytail and two pink tentadicks fucking Ellery, a pale man with a blond ponytail and blue-gray colored limbs and a pale yellow vivisection scar.
Ellery is being warmed up for the second one :)
Mike (He/They), the caecilian, belongs to my friend @53cr3tp13rc3.bsky.social !
#Nsfw #NsfwArt #NsfwOcs #FriendsOCs #Anthro #Caecilian #Teratophilia #Ellery #MikeHavenvalor
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Two new species of Caecilia (Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from the Ecuadorian humid Chocó
In Salamandra
Check out the PDF for stunning live and CT scan images of these new species 😍
#caecilian
Hi #frog #salamander and #caecilian researchers! Do you use High Molecular Weight DNA and #longRead sequencing in your #amphibian #genomics research? If yes, please fill this short survey: tinyurl.com/32vfnxz4 you can also join the team to write a best practices paper on it! 🐸
Probably my favorite video of my caecilians #caecilian #typhlonectes
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 A review of color patterns in Caecilia tentaculata (Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) reveals high frequency of partial leucism
In Biodiversity and Conservation
#caecilian
Caecilia tentaculata with partially leucistic phenotype
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 An Albino Purple #Caecilian (Gymnopis multiplicata) from Drake Bay, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
Albino mother with normal coloured neonates. Photograph by Raby Nuñez Escalante
@RandAJournal
🚨NEW PAPER🚨 Adipose tissue torsion with localized lymphangiectasia in a Rio Cauca #caecilian Typhlonectes natans
