Geotrypetes seraphini
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| Gaboon caecilian (middle) in Rochebrune's Faune de la Sénégambie | |
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| Species: | G. seraphini
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| Geotrypetes seraphini (Dumeril, 1859)
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The Gaboon caecilian, Geotrypetes seraphini, is a species of amphibian in the Dermophiidae family. It is found in Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and possibly Angola, and the Republic of the Congo. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, plantations, rural gardens, urban areas, heavily degraded former forests, and seasonally flooded agricultural land.
References
- Loader, S.; Rödel, M.-O.; Wilkinson, M. (2004). "Geotrypetes seraphini". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004. IUCN: e.T59557A11963228. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T59557A11963228.en. Retrieved 21 December 2017.