Sylvacaecilia grandisonae (Taylor, 1970)
Aleku caecilian; Ethiopian caecilian | family: Grandisoniidae genus: Sylvacaecilia |
Species Description: Taylor, E. H. 1970. A new caecilian from Ethiopia. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 48: 849–854. | |
Etymology: The genus Sylvacaecilia was named after “sylva”, a Greek word meaning “forest”, referencing its tropical deciduous forest habitat, and “caecilia”, referencing its taxon (Wake 1987). The species epithet, "grandisonae", is in honor of Miss Alice G. C. Grandison, the Curator of Herpetology at the British Museum, who provided two of these caecilians to E. H. Taylor (1970) for his study. |
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