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Csecilia lumbricoidea, Dmidin. (12) 



WORM-LIKE CECILIA. 



Synonyms, Csecilia, gracilis, Hemprich, Shaw ; Caecil- 

 ia lumbricoidea of most authors. 



Length more than seventy times the greatest diameter ; 

 annuli few at each end, others seen only with the micro- 

 scope ; muzzle large and rounded ; eyes invisible ; tongue 

 with plicae and large, oval, narial valvules ; posterior ex- 

 tremity of the body cylindrical, and rounded; color black- 

 ish or brownish, sometimes with an olive taint; max- 

 illary teeth about twenty in each jaw, palatine or second 

 row sixteen above and ten to twelve below, all the teeth 

 acute, conical, turned backwards, and somewhat scatter- 

 ed; posterior half of the body smaller than the anterior, 

 and with a small swelling near the extremity; scales 

 large, thin, cycloid, imbricated, and verticillate. 



Habitat Surinam. 



Cseeilia tentaculata, Lacepede. (12) 



Synonym, Caecilia albiventris, Daudin, Merrem, Gray, 

 de Saint- Vincent, Cuvier, Griffith. 



