🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Coupling molecular evolution with macroevolutionary transitions in a pheromone system including the three amphibian orders
Providing much needed research on #caecilians
in Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Does anyone have institutional access to this paper? Our students are very interested in learning more #amphibians #Caecilians www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Typhlonectes Natans
(@zslofficial.bsky.social, London November 2025)
#photography #animalphotgraphy #zoophotography #aquariumphotography #zoo #animals #aquaticamphibians #amphibians #caecilians #herpetology #herping #TyphlonectesNatans #ZSL #LondonZoo #London
Model caecilian.
Model caecilian.
Model caecilian.
Hey look, I got me a caecilian! I think it's a bootleg and don't know what original it's based on. But still cool to have it. #caecilians
🚨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
academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
🚨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...
A quick Tetrapod Zoology introduction to #caecilians .... tetzoo.com/blog/2022/10... #amphibians #herpetology
#Caecilians are limbless, worm-like #amphibians that live underground 🌍🐍.
They have smooth, slippery skin and are rarely seen due to their burrowing lifestyle.
Despite their snake-like appearance, they're not reptiles.
Caecilians are fascinating, with some species even blind.
#Nature #Wildlife
Learn about upcoming SAVE THE FROGS! Events at savethefrogs.com/events
#savethefrogs #amphibian #biology #frogs #toads #salamanders #caecilians #newts #ecologists
Frog workshop
The first day of the joint IUCN Red List and Green Status of Species workshop (the first time they have ever run concurrently) was a great success, focussing on the #frogs of the Seychelles. On to the #caecilians tomorrow
Ellen Sharkey
Ellen Sharkey being interviewed for SBC
Ellen did a fantastic talk about her PhD topic looking at climate change in #caecilians.
The Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation were here, who will be doing a segment about the symposium, and Ellen and I gave an interview about the importance of getting people together for these events.
New book: “Atlas des Amphibiens de Guyane”, by Antoine Fouquet, Elodie Courtois, Maël Dewynter. A milestone in Guianan herpetology. Right now in French, and soon an English edition should be available:
crbe.cnrs.fr/en/parution-...
🐸🐸🐸
#herpetology #frogs #caecilians
The project will be documenting all fauna but it was partially developed to understand more about #caecilians.
You will also spend some time in Seychelles and likely with us at Newcastle University.
P.s. caecilians are awesome and the Seychelles is pretty nice ...
2 new species of #Caecilians discovered!
➡️Large worm🪱-like subterranean amphibians🐸.
🇪🇨#Chocó rainforest
reassembly.de/news/two-new-w
#caecilians at the @WCHerp 10th World Congress of #Herpetology #WCH24
@BellaLGonzalez presenting on “Welcome to Miami: Reproductive Traits and Pathogen Potential in Introduced Caecilians”
#caecilians at the @WCHerp 10th World Congress of #Herpetology #WCH24
Ranjith Vengot presenting on “Patterns of elevational variation in the distribution of caecilians: A study from a northern Kerala part of the Western Ghats of peninsular”, supervised by @RamKotharambath
#caecilians at the @WCHerp 10th World Congress of #Herpetology #WCH24
Avanthika Prakash presents her poster on “Surface activity and circadian rhythm in caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona): new experimental data on animals in captivity” supervised by @RamKotharambath
#caecilians at the @WCHerp 10th World Congress of #Herpetology #WCH24
@RamKotharambath presents
“New insights into the natural history of Western Ghats caecilians”
#caecilians at the @WCHerp 10th World Congress of #Herpetology #WCH24
@QuentinWildlife Quentin Martinez gives us a “Preliminary investigation of the brain and olfactory apparatus of caecilians”
#caecilians at the @WCHerp 10th World Congress of #Herpetology #WCH24
Sina Amini presenting on “Unexpected maintenance of the long-wavelength sensitive (LWS) cone opsin in
caecilians”
#caecilians at the @WCHerp 10th World Congress of #Herpetology #WCH24
Mark Wilkinson @Atretochoana asking “Are cardiovascular and pulmonary systems of caecilians impacted by burrowing?”
A topic he’s wanted to look at since his early PhD days…
#caecilians at the @WCHerp 10th World Congress of #Herpetology #WCH24
@chungkamei presenting “A taxonomic review of the unstriped forms of the Asian caecilian genus Ichthyophis”
#caecilians at the @WCHerp 10th World Congress of #Herpetology #WCH24
Pedro Mailho-Fontana talking on
“Milk provisioning in oviparous caecilian amphibians”
The only tool you need to find #caecilians - the bladed hoe!
#caecilians at the @WCHerp 10th World Congress of #Herpetology #WCH24
Symposium organised by @axkupfer @QuentinWildlife @DrClaudiaKoch on “A brief introduction to the diversity of
subterranean amphibians and reptiles” with lots of talks on caecilians all morning!
#caecilians at the @WCHerp 10th World Congress of #Herpetology #WCH24
Mark Wilkinson @Atretochoana
presenting “Systematics of caecilians of the Seychelles”
Arguably the most well studied caecilians in the world: “Remarkable diversity in a tiny area”
