Caecilia tentaculata Linnaeus, 1758

Type: NHRM (lost) .

Type locality: “America.”

Distribution: Regions 1, 2, 4. South America east of Andes, in Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru. Apparently widespread in lowland Venezuela, known from Estados Amazonas, Táchira, and Yaracuy (Barrio-Amorós 1998).

Selected references: Dunn (1942); Taylor (1968); Péfaur et al. (1987, 1992); Nussbaum and Wilkinson (1989); Maciel and Hoogmoed (2011).