Animalia > Chordata > Amphibia > Gymnophiona > Dermophiidae > Geotrypetes > Geotrypetes angeli

Geotrypetes angeli (Angel's caecilian)

Wikipedia Abstract

Geotrypetes angeli is a species of amphibian in the Dermophiidae family found in Guinea and Sierra Leone. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, plantations, rural gardens, and heavily degraded former forests.
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Attributes

Adult Length [1]  9 inches (23.4 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Guinean montane forests Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Guirila Classified Forest 20016 Beyla, Guinea      
Sankan Biriwa (Tingi Hills) No or Non - Hunting Forest Reserve 29368 Sierra Leone  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Guinean Forests of West Africa Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Togo 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