Caecilians, some plethodontid salamanders and certain frogs that lay eggs underground have unpigmented eggs.

Caecilians are legless amphibians which superficially resemble worms or snakes.

Caecilians are found in tropical Africa, Asia and Central and South America.

Caecilians are unique among amphibians in having mineralized dermal scales embedded in the dermis between the furrows in the skin.

Caecilians do not flick their tongues but catch their prey by grabbing it with their slightly backward-pointing teeth.

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.

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.

In 1965, he turned his attention onto Caecilians after having discovered a new species on an island in the Sea of Celebes.

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 ).

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These included the Ophidians, Caecilians and legless lizards.

If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.

`` We've been looking for work, but all the ranchers have turned us down ''.

She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.

A detailed scouring of the entire area revealed nothing beyond a ledge of rocks that might have been the rifleman's hiding place.

Yet had he not visited the girl at Saw Buck he would never have been involved in this latest tangle.

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

Their product had been endorsed by Good Housekeeping, the A.M.A., and the Veterinary Journal, among other repositories of higher wisdom, and before much longer if you didn't have a cake of their soap in the john, even your best friends would think you didn't bathe.

`` The commercials have just been for money, there hasn't been any real incentive for me to do them, but in Underwater Western Eye I'd have a chance to act.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.

( Would she have been able to had she known that the blanket belonged to a young ballet dancer Nicolas had found his first night in one of Walter's marked bars??

It had been a mistake, but anything would have been a mistake, as it turned out.

`` They wouldn't have sold me in the first place if there'd been food enough to go around ''.

The body may have been two or three weeks' dead.

She might have been someone he had once loved.

Benson said, and Ramey wondered how close their thoughts might have been.

And he would have enjoyed it just as much if he had been a Nazi.

The deeds of countless western bandits and outlaws have been glorified almost to the point of hero-worship, but because Billy Tilghman remained strictly on the side of the law throughout his action-packed career, his achievements and the appalling risks he took while taming the West have remained almost unsung.

Something was beginning to stir and come alive in her, too ( it may have been there for a good while, since she was twenty now ; ;

Had Dandy been older or wiser, instinct might have warned him that he would be well advised to flee from the Lalauries' tender care if he valued his life.

`` I have a little job for you, Charlie.

`` You and I have a little talking to do, Jess.

Black would have little trouble getting out, but it might delay him a few minutes.

And besides, the chick had a little something the others didn't have.

Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.

In the meantime, while the South has been undergoing this phenomenal modernization that is so disappointing to the curious Yankee, Southern writers have certainly done little to reflect and promote their region's progress.

The persistent horror of having a malformed child has, I believe, been reduced, not because we have gained any control over this misfortune, but precisely because we have learned that we have so little control over it.

The part of the mind that preserves dates and events may remonstrate, `` It could have been like that for only a little while '' ; ;

He seemed a little surprised that it should have caused any particular trouble anywhere.

Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.

Since the slogans have little application to reality and are sanctimonious to boot, the applause is faint even in areas of the world where we should expect to find the greatest affection for free government.

I have been so weary of the excessive rocking of the vessel, and the almost intolerable smell after the rain, that I have done little more than lounge on the bed for several days.

The Burmese appeared to have little knowledge of British power or any idea of trade.

The somewhat Petrarchan love story which these poems suggest cannot obscure the fact that undoubtedly they have more than a little of autobiographical sincerity.

As a stanch party man and a rabid Democrat, he had little tolerance for Whigs like Pike, and Pike lost any immediate personal advantage his victory over Woodruff might have gained him.

The troops must have more than the common quantity of liquor, and perhaps there will be some little drunkenness among them ''.

Even so, Edward's ambassadors can scarcely have foreseen that five years of unremitting work lay ahead of them before peace was finally made and that when it did come the countless embassies that left England for Rome during that period had very little to do with it.

And Lilly allowed me to help so that she could have her few little hours of escape.

The Dominican people have known no democratic institutions and precious little freedom for a generation, and all alternative leadership has been suppressed.

Engaged as it is in a battle for world trade as a condition of national survival, this country can have little patience with labor's family feuds.

At that point the Administration will have little reason to hang onto Gen. Swing.

The football opponent on homecoming is, of course, selected with the view that said opponent will have little more chance than did a Christian when thrown to one of the emperor's lions.