Gymnophiona

Gymnophiona (a Graecis γυμνος 'nudus' + οφις 'anguis'^[2]) sunt caeciliani cruribus carentes atque omnia amphibia cum eis artius conectis quam anuris et caudatis.^[3] Corpus est cylindricum et colore brunneo vel coracino. Cutis est limosa, strias vel maculas anulares ferens, minutis squamis dermalibus praedita.

Eocaecilia, secundus a primo caeciliano stemmatis notus

Animalia — Chordata

Classis : Amphibia
Subclassis : Lissamphibia
Ordo : Gymnophiona
Rafinesque, 1814

Palaeontologia

Subdivisiones: Familiae

*†Chinlestegophis

Cognationes recensere

Recentissima caecilianorum phylogenia in indiciis molecularibus mitogenomicisque a San Mauro et aliis (2014) investigatis condita est.^[4]

Gymnophiona

↑ Nussbaum, Ronald A. (1998). Cogger, H. G.. ed. Encyclopedia of Reptiles and Amphibians. Didacopoli: Academic Press. pp. 52–59. ISBN 0-12-178560-2 .
↑ Quia caeciliani primum anguibus cognati habebantur.
↑ Evans, Susan E.; Sigogneau-Russell, Denise (2001). "A stem-group caecilian (Lissamphibia: Gymnophiona) from the Lower Cretaceous of North Africa". Palaeontology 44 (2): 259
↑ San Mauro, D.; Gower, D. J.; Müller, H.; Loader, S. P.; Zardoya, R.; Nussbaum, R. A.; Wilkinson, M. (2014). "Life-history evolution and mitogenomic phylogeny of caecilian amphibians". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 73: 177–189 .

Evans, Susan E., et Denise Sigogneau-Russell. 2001. A stem-group caecilian (Lissamphibia: Gymnophiona) from the Lower Cretaceous of North Africa. Palaeontology 44(2): 259. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00179.

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