Rodolfo Santos

3 weeks ago | anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Rodolfo Santos |Mark Wilkinson |Hussam Zaher

1 INTRODUCTION Caecilians (Gymnophiona) are a relatively small clade (~220 recent species) of amphibians with a distinct morphology characterized, among other features, by a complete lack of limbs and girdles (Wagler, 1830), such that the postcranial skeleton of modern caecilians comprises only vertebrae and ribs.