Postmortem Findings in Eight Species of Captive Caecilian (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) Over a Ten-Year Period

Flach, Edmund; Feltrer, Yedra; Gower, David J.; Jayson, Stephanie; Michaels, Christopher J.; Pocknell, Ann; Rivers, Sonja; Perkins, Matthew; Rendle, Matthew; Stidworthy, Mark F.; Tapley, Benjamin; Wilkinson, Mark; Masters, Nic

doi:10.1638/2019-0047

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“…Caecilians epitomise the complexities of maintaining poorly known amphibian taxa in captivity. More than 55 % of assessed caecilian species are listed as Data Deficient by IUCN (IUCN, 2019) and only six species are currently maintained by zoos and aquaria globally (Species 360, 2020) but failure to thrive or breed is not uncommon (Flach et al, 2020). Consequently, advances in husbandry are difficult to achieve.…”

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