Schistometopum ephele, Taylor, 1965

O’Connell, Kyle A., Prates, Ivan, Scheinberg, Lauren A., Mulder, Kevin P. & Bell, Rayna C., 2021, Speciation and secondary contact in a fossorial island endemic, the São Tomé caecilian, Molecular Ecology 30 (12), pp. 1-13 : 9

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15928
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5827763
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scientific name	Schistometopum ephele
status

Treatment

we recommend recognizing these lineages as distinct species and remove

S. ephele Taylor, 1965 View in CoL

from synonymy with S. thomense (Bocage 1873) View in CoL .

Taylor, E. D. (1965). New Asiatic arid African caecilians with redescrip- tions of certain other species. University of Kansas Science Bulletin, 46, 253 - 302. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 20077

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Amphibia
Order	Gymnophiona
Family	Dermophiidae
Genus	Schistometopum

Specimens