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Scolecomorphus kirkii Boulenger, 1883
Kirk's Caecilian; Lake Tanganyika Caecilian; Nianta; Nyongolotzi | family: Scolecomorphidae genus: Scolecomorphus |
| Species Description: Boulenger, G. A. 1883. Description of a new genus of Coeciliae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 5, 11: 48. | |
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Etymology: The species epithet, “kirkii,” is in honor of Sir John Kirk, who was a vice consul at Zanzibar and a naturalist that obtained the holotype near Lake Tanganyika. These origins also explain the common names, Kirk’s Caecilian and Lake Tanganyika Caecilian (Boulenger 1883; Channing 2001). |
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