Caecilian

The caecilians are an order (Gymnophiona) o amphibians that superficially resemble yirdworms or snakes.^[1] Thay maistly live hidden in the grund, makin them the least familiar order o amphibians. Aw extant caecilians an thair closest fossil relatives are grooped as the clade Apoda.^[2] Thay are maistly distributit in the tropics o Sooth an Central Americae, Africae, an Sooth Asie.^[3] The diets o caecilians are nae weel kent.

Caecilians
Dermophis mexicanus
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Cless:	Amphibia
Subcless:	Lissamphibia
Order:	Gymnophiona J.P. Müller, 1832
Faimilies
Caeciliidae Chikilidae Dermophiidae Herpelidae Ichthyophiidae Indotyphlidae Rhinatrematidae Scolecomorphidae Siphonopidae Typhlonectidae
Distribution o caecilians (in green)