Sentences with phrase «in caecilians»

Nussbaum, a University of Michigan zoologist who specializes in caecilians, the little - known group of amphibians to which this beast belongs, learned of the specimen from one of his graduate students.

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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.

Small fossils about 220 million years old found along steep red slopes in Colorado represent a near - relative of modern animals called caecilians, says vertebrate paleontologist Adam Huttenlocker of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

In their newly published checklist the researchers have listed 49 species of frogs and toads, as well as one caecilian species — a limbless, snake - like amphibian.

However, Small, Pardo, and Huttenlocker recently discovered two new caecilian fossils from the Triassic Period in central Colorado.

«Caecilians are hard to find in the fossil record because most are so small,» added Adam Huttenlocker, an assistant professor in the Department of Integrative Anatomical Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.