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• The other two layers show angles of 50-60 deg as would be predicted by the hydrostatic skeleton model of internal concertina locomotion in caecilians.
• The site did post the July birth of a caecilian, a legless amphibian, at the Tennessee Aquarium. All together now: Awwwwwwwwwww
• The oldest known frogs, salamanders and caecilians are very similar to their living descendants.
• While burrowing, caecilians employ concertina locomotion, lateral undulation, and vermiform locomotion.
• Direct development and viviparity have evolved in all three groups of Lissamphibia: frogs, salamanders and caecilians.
• The team recorded footage of a female wom-like amphibian, called caecilian, allowing her young to peel off and eat her skin. The Jawa Report
• E.D. Cope had advocated the abolition of the order Apoda and the incorporation of the Caecilians among the Urodela or Caudata in the vicinity of the Amphiumidae, of which he regarded them as further degraded descendants; and this opinion, which was supported by very feeble and partly erroneous arguments, has unfortunately received the support of the two great authorities, P. and F. Sarasin, to whom we are indebted for our first information on the breeding habits and development of these Batrachians. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
• Some not-so-familiar creatures, like the legless, burrowing caecilians, are also amphibians.
• Caecilians, urodeles and some anurans, snakes, amphisbaenians and some lizards have a stapes, which may be attached to the shoulder girdle or skin, and are well suited to detecting low frequency vibrations from the substrate.
• Wake and Donnelly also noted that together with the small, lung-less frog, the diminutive new caecilian suggests that lunglessness is most likely to appear in land-dwelling amphibians that are relatively small. Stabroek News