The rubber eel is a fully aquatic caecilian, family Typhlonectidae, native to rivers and wetlands of Colombia and Venezuela, with a dark, smooth, limbless body that gives it its common name despite being an amphibian rather than a fish. It breathes mostly through its skin, supplementing this by surfacing occasionally for air, and gives birth to a small number of fully developed young after a gestation of several months rather than laying eggs.
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Classification
Relationship to People Living or Extinct Scientific Name Conservation Status Connections
Child Taxon Of
Source Wikidata: Rubber Eel
In Biome
Source Rubber Eel (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Colombia, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: United States, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Venezuela, found in there.
Sources
1. Rubber Eel (Wikipedia)
- commonly kept as an aquarium pet
- infobox status=LC
- In Biome: Savanna, Wikipedia intro: "ctidae found in Colombia, Venezuela, and possibly Trinidad and Tobago. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical..."
View the Source2. GBIF Species API
3. Wikidata: Rubber Eel
Wikidata- Wikidata Q2249158, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
Statements section, conservation status (P141)
IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): least concern.
- Wikidata Q2249158 (P225 taxon name)
- Child Taxon Of: Gymnophiona, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
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