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Taxon: Genus Caecilia Linnaeus, 1758 (amphibian)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Amphibia - (Order) Gymnophiona - (Family) Caeciliidae

Original position

Serpentes (Order) Linnaeus, 1758

Current position

Caeciliidae (Family) Rafinesque, 1814

Ref: D.R. Frost, 2010: 19 Jan 2011.

Alternative positions

*Caeciliinae* (Subfamily) Rafinesque, 1814	Ref: D.R. Frost, 2004: 28 Apr 2006.
*Serpentes* (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: [von] Linné, C., 1766: 393.

Historical positions

*Caeciliidae* (Family) Rafinesque, 1814	Ref: D.R. Frost et al., 2006: 167; 150.
*Gymnophiona* (Order) Rafinesque, 1814	Ref: E.R. Lankester, 1877: 452. [rough position]
*Serpentes* (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: C. a Linné, 1766: 393.
*Serpentes* (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: C. Linnaeus, 1758: 229. [new position]

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	33s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	33s
2010	D.R. Frost: 19 Jan 2011	33s
2007	D.R. Frost: 20 Mar 2007	33s
1758	C. Linnaeus	[2s]

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