Gymnophiona: References & Edit History

Edward H. Taylor, The Caecilians of the World: A Taxonomic Review (1968), is the first major review of caecilians, and it served to ignite the interest of other scientists. Similarly, William E. Duellman and Linda Trueb, Biology of Amphibians (1986, reissued 1994), offers the first general review of caecilians’ biology and anatomy. A more recent and less detailed review of caecilians is available in George R. Zug, Laurie J. Vitt, and Janalee P. Caldwell, Herpetology: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles, 2nd ed. (2001). The most comprehensive review of caecilians is Werner Himstedt, Die Blindwühlen (1996). The current classification is derived from Ronald A. Nussbaum and Mark Wilkinson, “On the Classification and Phylogeny of Caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona), a Critical Review,” Herpetological Monographs, 3:1–42 (1989); and Mark Wilkinson et al., “A Nine-Family Classification of Caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona),” Zootaxa, 3874:41–64 (2011).