Susceptible to this sort of fragmentation that characterizes Indochina, caecilians of this region serve as an indicator species. (news.mongabay.com)
Now the same team have screened over 5,000 amphibians from four continents to ascertain the threat the new disease presents to other species.The results, published today in the journal Science, show that B. salamandrivorans is very dangerous to salamanders and newts, but not to frogs, toads and snake - like amphibians called caecilians. (sciencedaily.com)
However, Small, Pardo, and Huttenlocker recently discovered two new caecilian fossils from the Triassic Period in central Colorado. (treehugger.com)