Looking for Caecilans-Gymnophiona-Schwimmwühlen

[Aurelien]

Hallo !

Sorry but I don't speak German !

I am a PhD students in Belgium. My research is about burrowing limbless vertebrates. For now I try to finish my first chapter about caecilians. And I am missing a key species, a Typhlonectes (natans or compressicauda)

I was thus wondering if someone knows where I can find one specimen, only one, even dead! That would be so helpful for my research on these poorly known guys...

If you have other species, I am interested as well, again, I am mostly looking for unfortunately dead specimens...

Thank you so much !

Dankeschön

Best,

Aurélien

[Peter Pogoda]

Hello,

Can´t you use specimens from museum collections? I´m sure there must be some of these common caecilians in some museum collections in belgium or surrounding countries.

cheers

[Aurelien]

Thanks for your answer. Yep, I could, but if the specimen is mine, I can do whatever I want without any troubles !