The Sagalla caecilian is a limbless, worm like amphibian, family Herpelidae, known only from a single isolated mountain, Sagalla Hill, in Kenya's Taita Hills, within an area of about twenty square kilometers. It lives underground in moist forest soil and farmland edges, using a pair of small retractable sensory tentacles near its snout, and is classified as endangered because its entire range lies outside any protected area.
Facts
Scientific Name Conservation Status Classification
Living or Extinct Connections
Child Taxon Of
Source Boulengerula niedeni (Wikidata)
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Kenya, found in there.
Sources
1. GBIF Species API
2. Boulengerula niedeni (Wikidata)
Wikidata- Wikidata Q220814 (P225 taxon name)
- Wikidata P141 (IUCN conservation status) claim, entity QID Q220814
Statements section, conservation status (P141)
IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): endangered.
- Child Taxon Of: Gymnophiona, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
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