First record of Caecilia guntheri Dunn, 1942 (Gymnophiona, Caeciliidae) in Central America

Luis Carlos Elizondo-Lara

doi:10.15560/17.2.649

Check List 17(2): 649-653, doi: 10.15560/17.2.649

First record of Caecilia guntheri Dunn, 1942 (Gymnophiona, Caeciliidae) in Central America

Luis Carlos Elizondo-Lara^‡

‡ Universidad de Panamá, Panama, Panama

Corresponding author: Luis Carlos Elizondo-Lara ( elizondolui@gmail.com )

Academic editor: Javier Ernesto Cortés Suárez

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Citation: Elizondo-Lara LC (2021) First record of Caecilia guntheri Dunn, 1942 (Gymnophiona, Caeciliidae) in Central America. Check List 17(2): 649-653. https://doi.org/10.15560/17.2.649

Abstract

I report the first encounter in Central America of an individual of Caecilia guntheri Dunn, 1942 (Gymnophiona, Caeciliidae). The individual was observed and collected in a primary evergreen submontane forest in Cerro Pirre, Darien Province, Republic of Panama. It was identified mainly by the low counts of secondary and primary folds. The encounter of this individual of C. guntheri highlights the disjunct populations and apparently the results of dispersion of this species from South to Central America by biotic exchange as result of the closure of the Isthmus of Panama.

Keywords

Amphibians, biotic exchange, Cerro Pirre, Darien, disjunct distribution, Panama