Saturday 22 June 2013

An Online Crash-course on Caecilians !!

The Online Crash-course on Caecilian's was started on June, 17th, 2013.

There will be one question or information pertaining to Caecilian's.

The information may sound very preliminary to many but believe me Caecilian's are one of the least known vertebrates and this is one of my efforts to popularize them. Like Snakes and Frogs i personally feel that everyone should start looking for Caecilian's also !

Dr. Varad B. Giri.

QUESTION 1 : Can anyone guess which is the Caecilian in this photo? Kindly tell the differentiating characters. ( Answer key is provided below, please dont cheat yourself ! )




                                             


ANSWER KEY QUESTION 1:




Taxonomy - Selected diagnostic characters of Genus : Indotyphlus


Taxonomy - Selected diagnostic characters of Genus : Gegeneophis


Taxonomy - Selected diagnostic characters of Genus : Uraeotyphlus


Taxonomy - Selected diagnostic characters of Genus : Ichthyophis


Taxonomy - Morphological Details of Caecilians used in identification


Taxonomy - Selected morphological details in Caecilians