Hypogeophis Peters, 1879

Wilkinson, Mark, Mauro, Diego San, Sherratt, Emma & Gower, David J., 2011, A nine-family classification of caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona), Zootaxa 2874, pp. 41-64 : 52

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3. Hypogeophis Peters, 1879

Type species: Coecilia rostrata Cuvier, 1829 by subsequent designation of Parker (1958).

Diagnosis: The only indotyphlids with eyes not covered by bone, tentacular grooves covered by bone, and mesethmoid not massively exposed between frontals.

Distribution: Seychelles.

Content: Two species ( brevis , rostratus ).