Animalia > Chordata > Amphibia > Gymnophiona > Herpelidae > Boulengerula > Boulengerula changamwensis

Boulengerula changamwensis (Changamwensis African Caecilian)

Synonyms: Afrocaecilia changamwensis

Wikipedia Abstract

The Changamwe caecilian, Boulengerula changamwensis, is a species of amphibian in the Caeciliidae family. It is also known as Changamwensis African caecilian and Changamwe lowland caecilian.It is found in southern Kenya (Changamwe and the Shimba Hills) and Malawi, and possibly in the intervening Tanzania and Mozambique.
View Wikipedia Record: Boulengerula changamwensis

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Boulengerula changamwensis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
31
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Not determined do to incomplete vulnerability data.
ED Score: 60.07
View EDGE Record: Boulengerula changamwensis

Attributes

Adult Length [1]  9 inches (23 cm)
Diet [1]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Northern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Southern Rift montane forest-grassland mosaic Malawi, Tanzania Afrotropic Montane Grasslands and Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Mount Mulanje Forest Reserve 144452 Malawi  
Shimba Hills National Reserve 47570 Kenya  
Zomba Forest Reserve 14720 Malawi  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania No

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Oliveira, Brunno Freire; São-Pedro, Vinícius Avelar; Santos-Barrera, Georgina; Penone, Caterina; C. Costa, Gabriel. (2017) AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Sci. Data.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0