56 CATALOGUE OF AMPHIBIA. 
Orver III. PSEUDOPHIDIA. 
Body elongate, subcylindrical. Limbs none. 
Skin smooth, wrinkled, with minute embedded scales. »~™ as 
Tail extremely short. ro wart 
Vent open at the extremity of the body. me Wy Ques q 
Gill opening on the side of the neck, closed in the adults. inaerege 
Bones of skull united into a solid mass. Ws 
Internal nostrils on the hinder part of the palate, surrounded by 
bone. 
Jaws with a series of teeth. 
Palate with an arched series of teeth in the centre, parallel to the 
maxillary one, and before the internal nostrils. See Dugés, 
Batr. t. 14. f. 93. 95. copied t. 4. f. 19. 
Amphibia Serpentes (part.) Linn. S. Nat. i. 349. 
’ Abranchia Hogg, Ann. N. H. 1839. 270. 
~~ Batrachii apoda Oppel. Rept. 1811; Merrem, Tent. 1820. 
' Ceecilize hedreoglossee Wagler, Syst. 1830. 
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Amph. apoda Gray, Ann. Phil. 1825; Bell, Todd’s Cyclop. Med. 
1835, 237. 
Amph. menopneumena abranchia Hogg, I. c. 18. 1839. 
Cécilies Blainv. N. Ann. Mus. 1836. 
~~ Ophiosomes ou Céciliodes Duméril, Compte rendu, 1839, 22.: 
~ Gymnophidia seu Cecilia Miiller, Isis, 1831, 710. 
- A. celatibranchia Hogg, Ann. and Mag. N. #1. 1841, 361. 
Les Serpens nus Cuvier, Rég. Anim. ii. 86. ed. 2. ii. 98. 
Ophidia gymnodermia afin, Annal. Nat. 78. 1815. 
Lacertz (Ceecilioidei) Fitz. ; Hichw. Zool. Spec. iii. 177. 
~~ Batrachophidi Bonap. Dist. Anim. Vert. 24., Amph. Eur. 10. 
1839. 
~~ Pseudophidiens ou Cécilies Blainv. Bul. Soc. Philom. 1816. 119. 
Ceecilioidea Fitz. N. Class. 63. 1826. 
Ophiosoma Dum. & Bib. Erp. Gen. viii. 
Ceciliade Gray, Ann. Phil. 1825, 217.; Hogg, Ann. N. Hist. 1839, 
270., 1841, 361.; Dum. et Bib. Erp. Gen. viii. 
Crecilize Tschudi, Batr. 1838, 26.; Fitz. 8S. R. 34. 
Epicria Pitz. S. R. 34. 
Peromeles ou Cecilioides Dum. & Bib. Erp. Gen. viii. 97. 
Ceeciliidee Bonap. Amph. Eur. 51. | 
Ceciliina Bonap. Amph. Eur. 51. 
~ Ophidio-Batraciens Duvernoy, Rev. Zool. 1849, 185. 
Apoda Swains. Cab. Encyc, i. 343. a 
