Mimosiphonops reinhardti

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| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Mark Wilkinson, Débora Silvano, Ana Carolina Carnaval |date=2004 |title=Mimosiphonops reinhardti |volume=2004 |page=e.T59575A11951744 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T59575A11951744.en |access-date=16 November 2021}}

| genus = Mimosiphonops

| species = reinhardti

| authority = {{Interlanguage link|Mark Wilkinson (herpetologist)|fr|Mark Wilkinson (herpétologiste)|lt=Wilkinson}} and Nussbaum, 1992

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Mimosiphonops reinhardti is a species of caecilian in the family Siphonopidae. It is endemic to Brazil. It is only known from the holotype collected from "Brasilia" in 1878, probably somewhere in eastern Brazil (the city of Brasília did not exist at the time). The specific name reinhardti honors Johannes Theodor Reinhardt, Danish zoologist and herpetologist who collected the holotype. Common name Reinhardt's caecilian has been proposed for this species.

Description

The holotype is a male measuring {{convert|254|mm|in|1|abbr=on}} in total length. It has 74 primary annuli and 83 vertebrae. The body is dorsoventrally compressed. The eyes are clearly visible through the skin. The preserved specimen has a pale lilac-grey ground color where the cuticular layer of the skin is intact and a darker brown where this layer is missing. There is a broad and diffuse white patch occupying much of the throat and ventral surface of the nuchal collars. A pair of white mandibular stripes is present.

Habitat and conservation

There is no information on ecological requirements of this species. It might be similar to Siphonops annulatus and be an oviparous species with direct development (i.e, there is no free-living larval stage{{cite book|title=Herpetology: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles |edition=4th |first1=Laurie J. |last1=Vitt |first2=Janalee P. |last2=Caldwell |name-list-style=amp |publisher=Academic Press |year=2014 |page=166}}). Also threats to this species are unknown.

References

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{{cite web |url=https://amphibiaweb.org/cgi/amphib_query?where-genus=Mimosiphonops&where-species=reinhardti |title=Mimosiphonops reinhardti Reinhardt's Caecilian |year=2021 |work=AmphibiaWeb |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |access-date=8 January 2021}}

{{cite book |last1 = Beolens | first1 = Bo | last2 = Watkins | first2 = Michael | last3 = Grayson | first3 = Michael |name-list-style=amp |title=The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=QJY3BAAAQBAJ&pg=GBS.PA152 |date=2013 |publisher=Pelagic Publishing |isbn=978-1-907807-42-8 |page=130}}

{{cite web |url=https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Gymnophiona/Siphonopidae/Mimosiphonops/Mimosiphonops-reinhardti |title=Mimosiphonops reinhardti Wilkinson and Nussbaum, 1992 |author=Frost, Darrel R. |year=2021 |work=Amphibian Species of the World: An Online Reference. Version 6.1 |publisher=American Museum of Natural History |doi=10.5531/db.vz.0001 |access-date=8 January 2021}}

{{cite journal |last1=Wilkinson |first1=M. |last2=Nussbaum |first2=R.A. |name-list-style=amp |title=Taxonomic status of Pseudosiphonops ptychodermis Taylor and Mimosiphonops vermiculatus Taylor (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliaidae) with description of a new species |journal=Journal of Natural History |date=1992 |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=675–688 |doi=10.1080/00222939200770421 |url=http://bmnh.org/PDFs/MW_92_JNH.pdf }}

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reinhardtii

Category:Endemic caecilians of Brazil

Category:Amphibians described in 1992

Category:Taxa named by Ronald Archie Nussbaum

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot