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Schistometopum thomense (Bocage, 1873)
São Tomé Caecilian, cobra bobo | family: Dermophiidae genus: Schistometopum |
| Species Description: Barboza du Bocage, J. V. (1873). ''Melanges erpetologiques.'' Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas Physicas e Naturaes, Lisboa, 4(XIV), 209-232. | |
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Etymology: The genus, "Schistometopum" is a Latin neuter noun meaning "split forehead" (Nussbaum and Pfrender 1998). The species eithet, "thomense" is a reference to geographic range in São Tomé (Nussbaum and Pfrender 1998). |
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