A NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS Caecilia LINNAEUS, 1758 (AMPHIBIA: GYMNOPHIONA: CAECILIIDAE) FROM CAQUETÁ, COLOMBIA

Abstract

We here describe a new species of the genus Caecilia from Caquetá, Colombia, whose most salient characters are its large size, its very high counts of primary and secondary grooves, the presence of dermal scales throughout its body length, the size and arrangement of its mandibular teeth, and its lack of an unsegmented terminal shield. Groove counts are close to those of C. disossea, known from the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon but these differ on the previously mentioned characters (among others).