Study indicates São Tomé island has two species of

Study indicates São Tomé island has two species of caecilians found nowhere else on Earth


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IMAGE: The caecilians found on the southern part of the island are typically yellow with brown splotches.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA (May 10, 2021) -- The Gulf of Guinea islands harbor an abundance of species found nowhere else on Earth. But for over 100 years, scientists have wondered whether or not a population of limbless, burrowing amphibians--known as caecilians--found on one of the islands is a single or multiple species. Now, a team of researchers from the California Academy of Sciences and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History has contributed the strongest evidence to date that there is not one, but two different species of caecilians on São Tomé island. Their findings, published today in

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