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Caecilians are unique among amphibians in having mineralized dermal scales embedded in the dermis between the furrows in the skin.
Caecilians in the family Typhlonectidae are aquatic as well as being the largest of their kind.
Caecilians are found in wet tropical regions of Southeast Asia, India and Sri Lanka, parts of East and West Africa, the Seychelles islands in the Indian Ocean, Central America and in northern and eastern South America.
Eight amphibian species named in E. H. Taylor ’ s honor are still recognized as valid: Frogs: Hyalinobatrachium taylori ( Taylor ’ s Glass Frog, from the Guianas ), Platymantis taylori Taylor ’ s Direct-breeding Frog, Sierra Madre, Luzon, Philippines ), Craugaster taylori ( Taylor ’ s robber Frog, from Chaipas, Mexico ), Lithobates taylori ( Peralta Frog, from eastern Nicaragua & Costa Rica ); Salamanders: Ambystoma taylori ( Taylor ’ s Salamander, a neotenic salamander from Puebla, Mexico ), Bolitoglossa taylori ( Cerro Cituro Salamander, from Darien, Panama ), Oedipina taylori ( Taylor ’ s Worm Salamander, from Guatemala, El Salvador & Honduras ); Caecilians: Microcaecilia taylori ( Taylor ’ s Caecilian, from Suriname ).
Caecilians are legless amphibians which superficially resemble worms or snakes.

Caecilians and South
* Genus Oscaecilia – South American Caecilians

Caecilians and .
Caecilians, some plethodontid salamanders and certain frogs that lay eggs underground have unpigmented eggs.
Caecilians do not flick their tongues but catch their prey by grabbing it with their slightly backward-pointing teeth.
Caecilians have been little studied in this respect but the Cayenne caecilian ( Typhlonectes compressicauda ) produces toxic mucus which has caused the death of predatory fish in a feeding experiment in Brazil.
Caecilians completely lack limbs, making the smaller species resemble worms, while the larger species with lengths up to resemble snakes.
Caecilians ' vision is limited to dark-light perception, and their anatomy is highly adapted for a burrowing lifestyle.
In 1965, he turned his attention onto Caecilians after having discovered a new species on an island in the Sea of Celebes.
" On the Classification and Phylogeny of Caecilians.
" On the Classification and Phylogeny of Caecilians.
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These included the Ophidians, Caecilians and legless lizards.

are and found
The reasons for the Whig joy on this occasion are found to be their expectation of regaining control of the government, their delight at the prospect of a new war, their hopes of having the Tories hanged, and so on.
Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.
I found myself becoming one of that group of people who, in Carlyle's words, `` are forever gazing into their own navels, anxiously asking ' Am I right, am I wrong ' ''??
Wine glass heels are to be found in both high and semi-heights.
The citrus tones popular in clothing are also to be found afoot.
The fossilized remains of many of these trees are found embedded in the clay.
More importantly, several of the more advanced of the less developed countries have found through experience that they must plan their own complex investment programs for at least 5 years forward and tentatively for considerably more than that if they are to be sure that the various interdependent activities involved are all to take place in the proper sequence.
But his business also grew, and we are told that Mr. Brown found it increasingly difficult to devote as much time to his creative thinking as his inclinations led him to desire.
Calcium, phosphorus and iron are present in worthwhile amounts, and eleven other minerals also have been found in varying trace amounts.
The fish, animals, and birds which may be found at the site are another interest.
Fishing interest calls for a check of the species found, quantity and size, the season they are available, and the stocking program of the fish commission.
Commonly used electronic devices which are found in practically every hospital are closed-circuit TV and audio systems for internal paging and instruction, along with radiation counters, timers, and similar devices.
These are only halfway measures, and the answer will come when some way is found to allow the technical man in industry to progress without limit in salary and prestige ''.
He reasons that as anacondas 30 feet long are often found, some might be 38, and occasional `` monstrous freaks '' over 50.
The most distal airways are similar to those found in type 1,, being composed of numerous, apparently true terminal bronchioles and occasional, poorly developed respiratory bronchioles ( figs. 14, 15 ).
Dictionary forms found to match forms in the text list are marked.
Wage-price policies of industry are the result of a complex of forces -- no single explanation has been found which applies to all cases.
Much progress has been made in the last two decades in developing techniques for understanding children, yet in almost any classroom today can be found children whose needs are not being met by the school program.
These are those operating and capital costs found to vary with number of customers regardless, or almost regardless, of power consumption.
Combellack argues further, and here he makes his main point, that once The Iliad and The Odyssey are thought formulaic poems composed for an audience accustomed to formulaic poetry, Homeric critics are deprived of an entire domain they previously found arable.
Once many significant phrases are found in theory or in recurrent practice to provide for prosodic necessity, they are not to be defended for their semantic properties in isolated contexts.

are and tropical
he was working with species of Java, so perhaps some tropical snakes are unusual in this respect.
Solid fats from the seeds of the mahua tree, the shea tree, and the coconut palm are used to make candles in tropical countries.
Although the lowest salinity values are just north of the equator ( because of heavy tropical rainfall ), in general the lowest values are in the high latitudes and along coasts where large rivers enter.
Many other genera, both perennials and bulbs, are grown in gardens in tropical and temperate regions ( e. g. Watsonia, Crocus, Dietes, Tritonia, Hesperantha and Neomarica ).
Members of the family are natives of temperate to tropical regions of the Old World, with 15 genera and 780 species.
Members of the subfamily are found worldwide, in temperate, subtropical and tropical regions.
Plants assigned to this order are mostly tropical or aquatic.
They are especially numerous in tropical and subtropical regions ( notably Central America, eastern Brazil, the Andes, the Mediterranean, southern Africa, central Asia, and southwestern China ).
The more humid regions have a richer vegetation ; dense forest where the rainfall is greatest and variations of temperature least, conditions found chiefly on the tropical coasts, and in the west African equatorial basin with its extension towards the upper Nile ; and savanna interspersed with trees on the greater part of the plateaus, passing as the desert regions are approached into a scrub vegetation consisting of thorny acacias, etc.
The climbing plants in the tropical forests are exceedingly luxuriant and the undergrowth or " bush " is extremely dense.
Of reptiles the lizard and chameleon are common, and there are a number of venomous snakes, though these are not so numerous as in other tropical countries.
Charpak and Broch, noting this, referred to astrology based on the tropical zodiac as being " empty boxes that have nothing to do with anything and are devoid of any consistency or correspondence with the stars ".
So, a taiga or boreal forest is at the mercy of whatever abiotic stress factors may come along, while tropical zones are much less susceptible to such stressors.
The intense vomiting and occasional diarrhea it induces can clear the body of worms and other tropical parasites, and harmala alkaloids themselves have been shown to be anthelmintic Thus, this action is twofold ; a direct action on the parasites by these harmala alkaloids ( particularly harmine in ayahuasca ) works to kill the parasites, and parasites are expelled through the increased intestinal motility that is caused by these alkaloids.
Most marine species live in tropical waters, but a few occur in oceanic trenches, and others are found in polar waters.
* Brunei-Muara District and Bandar Seri Begawan are humid tropical on the coastal and lower altitude north and Humid subtropical in central Brunei-Muara District.
Bongos are found in dense tropical jungles with dense undergrowth up to an altitude of 4, 000 meters ( 12, 800 ft ) in Central Africa, with isolated populations in Kenya, and the following west African countries: -
The natural foci of plague are situated in a broad belt in the tropical and sub – tropical latitudes and the warmer parts of the temperate latitudes around the globe, between the parallels 55 degrees North and 40 degrees South.
Hurricanes are powerful storms, which form in tropical waters and have historically cost thousands of lives lost and caused billions of dollars in damage.
These species are found throughout tropical and subtropical South and Central America.

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