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: Indotyphlidae
Genus: Hypogeophis
Species (4): H. brevis – H. montanus – H. pti – H. rostratus
Name
Hypogeophis Peters, 1880: 936
Type species: Coecilia rostrata Cuvier, 1829, by subsequent designation by Parker (1958: 74).
References
Primary references
Peters, W.C.H. [1879] 1880. Über die Eintheilung der Caecilien und insbesondere über die Gattungen Rhinatrema und Gymnopis. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussische Akademie des Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1879: 924–945. BHL
Additional references
Maddock, S.T., Wilkinson, M., Nussbaum, R.A. & Gower, D.J. 2017. A new species of small and highly abbreviated caecilian (Gymnophiona: Indotyphlidae) from the Seychelles island of Praslin, and a recharacterization of Hypogeophis brevis Boulenger, 1911. Zootaxa 4329(4): 301–326. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4329.4.1 Paywall Reference page.
Maddock, S.T., Wilkinson, M. & Gower, D.J. 2018. A new species of small, long-snouted Hypogeophis Peters, 1880 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Indotyphlidae) from the highest elevations of the Seychelles island of Mahé. Zootaxa 4450(3): 359–375. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4450.3.3 Paywall Reference page.
Links
Amphibian Species of the World 5.2 Hypogeophis access date 12 August 2008
Vernacular names
English: Seychelles Caecilians
Hypogeophis is a genus of caecilians in the family Indotyphlidae. The genus consists of four species, all endemic to parts of the Seychelles Archipelago.[1][2]
Species
The genus has four recognized species:[1][3]
Hypogeophis brevis
Hypogeophis montanus, Maddock, Wilkinson, and Gower, 2018
Hypogeophis pti – petite Praslin caecilian, found on Praslin[4]
Hypogeophis rostratus – Frigate Island caecilian
References
Frost, Darrel R. (2017). "Hypogeophis Peters, 1880". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
Himstedt, Werner (2000). "Caecilian Ecology". In Hofrichter, Robert (ed.). Amphibians: The World of Frogs, Toads, Salamanders and Newts. New York: Firefly. pp. 186–190. ISBN 1-55209-541-X.
"Indotyphlidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2016. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
Blackman, Stuart (2018). "Discoveries". BBC Wildlife. Vol. 36 no. 1. p. 17.
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