Typhlonectes compressicauda

Remarks: CBA saw a photo of a fisherman in San Vicente, Río Apure (a major tributary of the Orinoco) which obtained one specimen fishing and used it as bait.

Distribution: Region 4. Amazon Region, in Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, Brazil, and Ecuador. In Venezuela, only Puerto Ayacucho (Gorzula and Cerda, 1979; Barrio-Amorós 1998). Holotype: ZFMK 27684. Type locality: “ Angostura, ” Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela. Distribution: Regions 3, 4, 5. Orinoco and Amazons Basins, in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, and French Guiana. In Venezuela, northern Amazonas and Bolívar States, and Delta of the Orinoco (Delta Amacuro). Remarks: CBA saw a photo of a fisherman in San Vicente, Río Apure (a major tributary of the Orinoco) which obtained one specimen fishing and used it as bait. Selected references: Taylor (1968); Nussbaum and Wilkinson (1989); Péfaur et al. (1992); Maciel and Hoogmoed (2011 a). Genus Typhlonectes Peters, 1880 Type species: Caecilia compressicauda Duméril and Bibron, 1841, by subsequent designation of Dunn (1942). Selected references: Roze (1963); Roze and Solano (1963); Taylor (1968); Gorzula and Cerda (1979); Nussbaum and Wilkinson (1989); Péfaur et al. (1992); Wilkinson (1996 a, 1996 b); Lynch (1999); Maciel and Hoogmoed (2011 a).

Distribution: Regions 3, 4, 5. Orinoco and Amazons Basins, in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, and French Guiana. In Venezuela, northern Amazonas and Bolívar States, and Delta of the Orinoco (Delta Amacuro).

Holotype: ZFMK 27684. Type locality: “ Angostura, ” Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela.

Type locality: “ Cayenne, ” French Guiana.

Type species: Caecilia compressicauda Duméril and Bibron, 1841, by subsequent designation of Dunn (1942).