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Interesting Facts
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Cooper's black caecilian
Description
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Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial ; Freshwater [1].
Ecology:
It lives in relatively undisturbed, usually forested, sites. It burrows
in damp soil and leaf-litter. It is not recorded from near urban
areas or houses. It probably breeds
by larval development in streams
and pools
, but this is not confirmed.[1].
List of Habitats
:
- 1 Forest
- 1.6 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
- 1.9 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane
- 5 Wetlands (inland)
- 5.1 Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls )
- 5.7 Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Freshwater Marshes/Pools (under 8ha)
- 5.8 Wetlands (inland) - Seasonal/Intermittent Freshwater Marshes/Pools (under 8ha)
- 14 Artificial/Terrestrial
- 14.6 Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest [more info]
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Protostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
()
- A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Superphylum:
Panarthropoda
()
- Cuvier
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Latreille, 1829
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Mandibulata
()
- Snodgrass, 1938
- Infraphylum:
Atelocerata
()
- Auct.
- Superclass:
Panhexapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Epiclass:
Hexapoda
()
- Subclass:
Dicondylia
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Infraclass:
Pterygota
()
- Superorder:
Psocodea
()
- Order:
Gymnophiona
()
- Shipley, 1904
- Suborder:
Psocomorpha
()
- Family:
Caeciliidae
()
-
- Subfamily:
Caeciliinae
()
- Genus:
Praslinia
()
- Boulenger, 1909
- Specific name:
cooperi
- Scientific name: - Praslinia cooperi Boulenger, 1909
- Specific name:
cooperi
- Genus:
Praslinia
(
- Subfamily:
Caeciliinae
(
- Family:
Caeciliidae
(
- Suborder:
Psocomorpha
(
- Order:
Gymnophiona
(
- Superorder:
Psocodea
(
- Infraclass:
Pterygota
(
- Subclass:
Dicondylia
(
- Epiclass:
Hexapoda
(
- Superclass:
Panhexapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Atelocerata
(
- Subphylum:
Mandibulata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Superphylum:
Panarthropoda
(
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
(
- Branch:
Protostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 01-Sep-2009
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Praslinia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species and subspecies in this genus:
P. cooperi (Cooper's Black Caecilian)
More Info
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Further Reading
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- Oil spill sensitivity of the western Indian Ocean islands: coastal data from the Comoros Islands, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion and the Seychelles WCMC url p. 24.
- The University of Kansas science bulletin. 49 1972 [Lawrence]: University of Kansas, 1902-1996. url p. 1044.
- Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. London: [The Society], 1879- url p. 300, p. 376.
Notes
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Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 17, 2012.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- Nussbaum, R. & Gerlach, J. 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- Ronald Nussbaum, Justin Gerlach 2004. Praslinia cooperi. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 04February2012.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 31244
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-668502
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 668502
- IUCN ID: 235425
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 666804
Footnotes
- Ronald Nussbaum, Justin Gerlach 2004. Praslinia cooperi. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 February 2012. [back]
