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Gymnopis multiplicata (Varagua caecilian)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Gymnopis multiplicata is a species of caecilian in the family Dermophiidae found in Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and possibly Guatemala.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, pastureland, plantations, rural gardens, and urban areas.
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Attributes

Adult Length [1]  19 inches (48 cm)
Litter Size [1]  16
Litters / Year [1]  0.5
Diet [1]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama Yes

Predators

Micrurus multifasciatus (Many-banded Coral Snake)[2]

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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.
♦ 2The caecilian amphibian Scolecomorphus kirkii Boulenger as prey of the burrowing asp Atractaspis aterrima Gu ̈ nther: trophic relationships of fossorial vertebrates, David J. Gower, Jens B. Rasmussen, Simon P. Loader and Mark Wilkinson, 2004, African Journal of Ecology, Afr. J. Ecol., 42, 83–87
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