Apodops

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Apodops
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Gymnophiona
Family: Caeciliidae
Genus: Apodops
Estes and Wake, 1972
Species
  • A. pricei Estes and Wake, 1972 (type)

Apodops is an extinct genus of early caecilian from the Paleocene of Brazil.

[edit] Sources

  • Biology of Amphibians by William E. Duellman and Linda Trueb
  • The Big Book Of Dinosaurs by David Norman
  • Amphibians: The World of Frogs, Toads, Salamanders and Newts by Robert Hofrichter
  • Colbert's Evolution of the Vertebrates: A History of the Backboned Animals Through Time by Edwin H. Colbert, Michael Morales, and Eli C. Minkoff