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n. - Any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona

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  • The team recorded footage of a female wom-like amphibian, called caecilian, allowing her young to peel off and eat her skin.
  • Judging from these movies, Mark Wilkinson is evidently some kind of caecilian-hunting guru genius: with just two lazy, shallow strokes of a spade, he was able to...
  • Earlier it was reported on a new species of caecilian from Goa, India.
  • The site did post the July birth of a caecilian, a legless amphibian, at the Tennessee Aquarium.
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