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Seychelles Home to New Species of Caecilian

The Petite Praslin caecilian (Hypogeophis pti) is the world’s newest
— and possibly the smallest — caecilian, a type of legless amphibian.

The new species is the seventh caecilian species found in the
Seychelles, where the amphibians have been evolving for 64 million
years. 

A team of scientists from Seychelles, the United States
and the United Kingdom has found a new caecilian, perhaps the smallest
species of the legless amphibian on Earth.

“As soon as I saw it I knew it was a new species,” Simon
Maddock, a conservation biologist at the University of Wolverhampton,
said in a statement. “[It] is a very exciting discovery and I was delighted to be able to formally describe it and present it to the world…”

Read more: https://news.mongabay.com/2017/10/seychelles-home-to-new-species-of-caecilian-a-legless-amphibian/