Caecilia tentaculata Linnaeus, 1758

Barrio-Amorós, César L., Rojas-Runjaic, Fernando J. M. & Señaris, J. Celsa, 2019, Catalogue of the amphibians of Venezuela: Illustrated and annotated species list, distribution, and conservation, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 180) 13 (1), pp. 1-198 : 133

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.11404264
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11406023
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scientific name	Caecilia tentaculata Linnaeus, 1758
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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).