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that he designated the specimen a holotype, so it was not mentioned in the museum's catalogue of type specimens, and was placed beneath glass in a public display. There, it was noticed by the visiting
English herpetologist Mark Wilkinson, who then borrowed the specimen to examine it with his American
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Brazilian rainforest, while on an expedition with Sir Brian Doll in the late 1800s, but rediscovered in 2011 by engineers working on a hydroelectric dam project in Brazil. Until 1998, it was known only from the
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The specimen in the Vienna museum was known only to have originated from somewhere in South
America, at least before 1945, most likely in the 19th century. Its lack of lungs was not known at this time, and the specimen was assigned to the species
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is a large caecilian at a length of 72.5 cm (28.5 in), while the Brasília specimen is larger still at 80.5 cm (31.7 in). By comparison, caecilians in general range in length from 11 to 160 cm (4.3 to 63.0 in).
510:. Neither have cold, fast-flowing water, as was originally thought, as there is less oxygen in warmer water. This makes its lack of lungs even more unusual, and the question of how it breathes has not yet been resolved.
437:, referring to a funnel or tube. Nussbaum and Wilkinson published further studies in 1997 describing in detail the caecilian's anatomy and morphology. In 1998, they discovered the second specimen in the
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colleague Ronald A. Nussbaum. Examination of the specimen showed it to have a number of unusual features, including the large number of splenial teeth observed by Taylor, but most unusually, closed
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786:"The largest lungless tetrapod: report on a second specimen of Atretochoana eiselti (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Typhlonectidae) from Brazil"
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Wilkinson, M.; Sebben, A.; Schwartz, E.N.F.; Schwartz, C.A. (1998).
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1033:"Anfíbio com formato de cobra é descoberto no Rio Madeira, em RO"
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885:"Comparative morphology and evolution of the lungless caecilian
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Paraense Emílio Goeldi - Ciências Naturais
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461:Most caecilians are burrowers, but some, including
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1084:1998 paper reporting discovery of second specimen
889:(Taylor) (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Typhlonectidae)"
855:Information on amphibian biology and conservation
472:is thought to be aquatic since its relatives and
368:for this species when it was first described by
485:International Union for Conservation of Nature
453:. Both of these specimens are mature females.
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964:"Discovery of the largest lungless tetrapod,
883:Nussbaum, Ronald A.; Wilkinson, Mark (1997).
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556:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T59493A11937533.en
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421:. The name they gave this genus was
849:Knapp, Michelle (3 February 2003).
542:IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
1039:from the original on 3 August 2012
909:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1997.tb01616.x
742:Proceedings of the Royal Society B
468:s relatives, are largely aquatic.
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1031:Ximenes, Marcela (31 July 2012).
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595:"Distribution and conservation"
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364:. The Vienna specimen was the
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932:. New York: Firefly. p.
341:, it has been called various
2770:Amphibians described in 1968
2760:Endemic caecilians of Brazil
1526:(American tailed caecilians)
987:10.46357/bcnaturais.v6i3.608
678:. London: Belknap. pp.
168:Nussbaum and Wilkinson, 1995
1938:(South American caecilians)
361:Typhlonectes compressicauda
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2765:Monotypic amphibian genera
793:Journal of Natural History
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2199:(salamanders crown group)
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2345:List of amphibian genera
1892:(Neotropical caecilians)
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1507:(caecilians crown group)
1431:(caecilians total group)
713:. Natural History Museum
651:. Natural History Museum
624:. Natural History Museum
597:. Natural History Museum
405:Naturhistorisches Museum
240:Naturhistorisches Museum
374:Caecilians of the World
2314:several hundred genera
851:"Atretochoana eiselti"
763:10.1098/rspb.1995.0155
649:"Atretochoana eiselti"
445:was a sister taxon of
439:University of Brasília
372:in his 1968 monograph
370:Edward Harrison Taylor
549:: e.T59493A11937533.
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2600:Atretochoana-eiselti
2560:Atretochoana eiselti
2530:Atretochoana eiselti
2015:(salamanders + frogs
1720:(aquatic caecilians)
1688:(African caecilians)
966:Atretochoana eiselti
887:Atretochoana eiselti
674:The Smaller Majority
535:Atretochoana eiselti
474:lungless salamanders
378:Typhlonectes eiselti
321:, and an absence of
226:Atretochoana eiselti
198:Atretochoana eiselti
2303:(frogs crown group)
2141:Batrachosauroididae
1783:(common caecilians)
755:1995RSPSB.261..331N
42:Conservation status
16:Genus of amphibians
1428:Gymnophionomorpha
323:pulmonary arteries
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