Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Classis: Amphibia
Subclassis: Lissamphibia
Ordo: Gymnophiona
Familia: Caeciliidae
Subfamilia: Typhlonectinae
Genus: Chthonerpeton
Species: C. arii – C. braestrupi – C. exile – C. indistinctum – C. noctinectes – C. onorei – C. perissodus – C. viviparum
Name
Chthonerpeton Peters, 1880
Type species: Siphonops indistinctus Reinhardt & Lütken, 1862
References
Peters, 1880, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1879: 930.
Amphibian Species of the World 5.2 Chthonerpeton access date 13 August 2008
Vernacular names
English: Peters' Caecilians
Chthonerpeton is a genus of semiaquatic amphibians in the family Typhlonectidae. They occur in South America east of the Andes.[1][2]
Species
Chthonerpeton contains the following species:[1]
Chthonerpeton arii Cascon and Lima-Verde, 1994
Chthonerpeton braestrupi Taylor, 1968
Chthonerpeton exile Nussbaum and Wilkinson, 1987
Chthonerpeton indistinctum (Reinhardt and Lütken, 1862)
Chthonerpeton noctinectes Silva, Britto-Pereira, and Caramaschi, 2003
Chthonerpeton onorei Nussbaum, 1986
Chthonerpeton perissodus Nussbaum and Wilkinson, 1987
Chthonerpeton tremembe Maciel, Leite, Silva-Leite, Leite, and Cascon, 2015
Chthonerpeton viviparum Parker and Wettstein, 1929
References
Frost, Darrel R. (2017). "Chthonerpeton Peters, 1880". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
Vitt, L. J.; Caldwell, J. P. (25 March 2013). Herpetology: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles. Academic Press. pp. 453–454. ISBN 978-0-12-386920-3. OCLC 898295183.
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