Typhlonectes compressicauda Duméril et Bibron, 1841 Typhlonectes Peters, 1880

Typhlonectes compressicauda Duméril et Bibron, 1841 View in CoL

Lectotype: MNHNP 4269 View Materials .

Type locality: “Cayenne,” French Guiana.

Potomotyphlus kaupii (Berthold 1859) View in CoL

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 About ZFMK .

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 (2011a).

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 (1996a, 1996b); Lynch (1999); Maciel and Hoogmoed (2011a).