Caecilian
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
(ssl´n), any of the legless, tailless tropical amphibians of the family Caecilidae. Most adult caecilians resemble earthworms superficially but have vertebrate characteristics such as jaws and teeth.
Caecilians - Gymnophiona
Caecilians (Gymnophiona) are a group of slender-bodied, limbless amphibians that-at first glance-resemble snakes, worms or eels. Yet caecilians are only distantly related to such animals.
The caecilian (pronounced seh-sill’-yen) lives in a network of underground tunnels. Its eyes are tiny, but since it lives in a world of darkness, it doesn’t depend on its eyesight to find food anyway.
Caecilians
Caecilians look like worms but are actually amphibians that inhabit the wet tropical regions of south America, Africa and south east Asia. They make up one of the three orders of amphibians, alongside frogs and salamanders.
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Caecilians (pronounced seh-SILL-yens) are tropical amphibians that look like large worms or slick snakes. They have no arms or legs, and sometimes it’s hard to tell which end is the head and which is the tail! ...
Scolecomorphus sp., Caecilian
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Caecilians live their lives underground.
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It has been attempted of late to do away with this order altogether and to make the Caecilians merely a family of the Urodeles.
Amphibians include the frogs and toads, salamanders and newts, and caecilians. The name, derived from the Greek amphibios meaning "living a double life," reflects this dual aptitude. Most species live part of their lives underwater and part on land.
Of three possible histories, the only one that has not been seriously considered is an Anura - Gymnophiona (caecilians) sister relationship, with Caudata (salamanders) sister to that group.
Amphibians include frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, and caecilians. They are cold-blooded vertebrates, and usually scaleless.
There are three groups of amphibians in the world today - the frogs and toads, the newts and salamanders, and the caecilians (legless burrowing types).
Other reptiles (alligators, crocodiles, lizards, turtles, and the tuatara, in addition to snakes) and amphibians (frogs, toads, salamanders, and caecilians) have also suffered from a broad range of human activities, ...
Newts and salamanders are of the order Caudata.
Gymnophiona
The lesser-known limbless caecilians of the order Gymnophiona superficially resemble earthworms or snakes and mostly live hidden in the ground.
Herpetology is the study of reptiles and amphibians, which include snakes, lizards, crocodiles, turtles, tortoises, frogs, salamanders and caecilians.
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Many types of amphibians evolved and went extinct over time, including some of the earliest land predators. Today's amphibians include frogs, toads, salamanders, newts and caecilians (earthworm-like creatures that live underground).
 See also: Salamander, Snake, Turtle, Lizard, Toad
  
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