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  San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Caecilian
Caecilians (pronounced seh-SILL-yens) are tropical amphibians that look like large worms or slick snakes.
Most caecilians are burrowers, living in a network of tunnels underground.
Caecilians have toxic glands in their skin that sometimes protect them from being eaten by other animals.
www.sandiegozoo.org /animalbytes/t-caecilian.html   (500 words)

  
  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Donatists
Caecilian, the deacon who had been so obnoxious to the martyrs, was duly chosen by the whole people, placed in the chair of Mensurius, and consecrated by Felix, Bishop of Aptonga or Abtughi.
Caecilian had possession of the basilica and the cathedra of Cyprian, and the people were with him, so that he refused to appear before the council.
Caecilian of Carthage was present at the Council of Nicea in 325, and his successor, Gratus, was at that of Sardica in 342.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/05121a.htm   (8763 words)

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