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  Caecilian. Who is Caecilian? What is Caecilian? Where is Caecilian? Definition of Caecilian. Meaning of Caecilian.
All caecilians share two tentacles at their head, which are probably used for the olfactory sense additional to the normal nose.
Caecilians are found in most of the tropic areas of South-East Asia, Africa and South America, except the dry areas and the high mountains.
The male caecilians have a penis-like organ, the phallodeum, which is inserted into the cloake of the female for 2 to 3 hours.
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 Caecilian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Caecilians are the only order of amphibians which only use internal insemination.
The male Caecilians have a penis-like organ, the phallodeum, which is inserted into the cloaca of the female for 2 to 3 hours.
Large Caecilians dubbed "ingots" plagued the French occupation of Indochina in the years before the Vietnam war.
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 Caecilian -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Inside the skin are (A common mineral consisting of crystallized calcium carbonate; a major constituent of limestone) calcite scales, which suggests that they are related with the fossil Stegocephalia.
All Caecilians share two tentacles at their head, which are probably used for the (Click link for more info and facts about olfactory sense) olfactory sense additional to the normal nose.
The male Caecilians have a (The male organ of copulation (`member' is a euphemism)) penis-like organ, the phallodeum, which is inserted into the cloaca of the female for 2 to 3 hours.
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 Caecilian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Caecilians' feet have degenerated, making the smaller species resemble worms, while the larger species with lengths up to 1.5m resemble snakes.
Caecilians are found in most of the tropic areas of South-East Asia, Africa and South America, except the dry areas and thehigh mountains.
The male Caecilians have a penis -like organ, the phallodeum, which is inserted into the cloaca of the female for 2 to 3hours.
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 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.
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 Caecilian - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The caecilians of Ecuador (University of Kansas science bulletin)
A new caecilian from Brazil (The University of Kansas science bulletin)
On the Caecilian species Ichthyophis glutinosus and Ichthyophis monochrous, with description of related species (University of Kansas science bulletin)
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Like common earthworms, caecilians' brown-gray bodies sport closely spaced, circumferential grooves; the animals' blunt heads bear a striking resemblance to their tails, their eyes are quite small, and they lack arms and legs.
When a caecilian encountered the soil-filled tube, the animal would push against the soil as hard as it could, seeking to escape the alien environment of the artificial burrow.
Unlike most vertebrates, caecilians can kink their vertebral column up inside their body, for which they possess a very lax set of connections between the skin and the spine.
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 Constantine's Preference to the "Catholic Church"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Caecilian was only favored by the clergy at that time, and the Donatists considered him a heretic and schismatic, and attributed himself as belonging to the "catholic" (universal) church (Kee 121).
Obviously, Caecilian and his group were favored because of their openness to the Roman authorities.
Caecilian's party would indeed be more open to institutionalization than the Donatists', because the fact that your ministry being valid even though you're a sinner gives you a permanent status within the Church.
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The common chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes, lives N of the Congo River.
caecilian caeciliansēsĬl´ēen, any of the legless, tailless tropical amphibians of the family Caecilidae.
Most adult caecilians resemble earthworms superficially but have vertebrate characteristics such as jaws and teeth.
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He acted swiftly, before listening to the other side, and Caecilian was assured that he enjoyed communion with the Roman church and was regarded as the legitimate bishop of Carthage.
Caecilian continued to enjoy imperial recognition, but little is heard of him after 325.
Lollards stressed a common sense approach to faith and applied this to issues such as communion, where it seemed obvious that the bread remained bread, whatever the metaphysical explanations behind the traditional dogmas.
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 Caecilian at Arles: Epistles of Cyprian 71-82
Caecilian included fictitious letters from Cornelius praising his view on the schismatics, but avoided the presentation of Miltiades’ genuine correspondence urging him not to close his mind beforehand to any possible solution of the conflict.
Miltiades probably warned Caecilian that his line of argument begged the fundamental question the ecclesiastical trial was to investigate: whether or not he was a lawfully ordained prelate of the Church.
Caecilian identifies himself with his predecessor Cyprian, an undeserving prelate according to the rigorists but a glorious martyr as claimed by the traditional clergy.
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 Amphibia: Gymnophiona (Caecilians)
Caecilians are unusual amphibians possessing reduced tails, with the exception of the family Ichthyophiidae, reduced eyes, segmented skin with tiny scales, powerful heads for burrowing, and acute olfactory systems.
Caecilians are found throughout most of northeast South America, a few patches in southeast Africa, and much of southern Asia.
Fowler, Henry W. Annual Report of the New Jersey State Museum, 1906 - With A Report of the Amphibians and Reptiles of New Jersey and a Supplement to the Fishes of New Jersey.
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 Caecilian at Arles: Epistles of Cyprian 31-40
African churchmen found a parallel for the hotly contested election of Caecilian in the equally controversial figure of Cyprian, his predecessor in the times of Decius, whom rigorists discredited as a weak prelate that settled for a golden exile when he should have held out in Carthage against the proconsul.
Caecilian intends to write down the names of those who get from him economic help and ecclesiastical promotion.
Following the excommunication of Majorinus, the first visible head of the schismatic church, Caecilian falls upon his faction, personified by the ten opposing prelates that Constantine convened to the Synod of Rome.
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 Glencoe Science Problem of the Week
Caecilians move around in a fashion similar to your tongue.
Lets say that a caecilian can generate a pressure of quarter newton per square centimeter acting inward due to its circular muscles.
Think about Pascal's principle as it applies to pistons: a force applied to one piston, the sides of the cylindrical caecilian in our case, will produce a force on a second piston, the front of the caecilian.
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 CAECILIAN DIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN GHATS : IN SEARCH OF THE RARE ANIMALS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Western Ghats is well known for harboring 14 endemic species of caecilian (i.e., legless amphibians out of 15 recorded from the region so far.
Ecological diversity of caecilians species were studied through soil excavation and litter-search.
Thus, they are quite common not only in evergreen forest but also in orchards of arecanut and coconut, which have perennial water supply but without heavy chemical input.
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 CESNUR 2004 - A Man on a Mission from GoThe Most Dangerous Thing in the World, by Brett L. Mers
Its stated purpose was to expiate the sins of both husband and wife and to ensure the couple's reunion beyond the grave, but it was encouraged by the low regard in which widows were held.
The common thread in all of these characteristics is a “narrowing” of the context in which analysis is done.
Finally, the sensible, common sense, and long-in-coming decision was made to begin to allow a division between the temporal and spiritual spheres of responsibility.
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This species of caecilian spends its entire life underwater, but if you watch closely, you might see one come to the surface to fill its lungs with air.
Although the common name ‘dart-poison frog’ is applied to any member of the family Dendrobatidae, only 3 species in this genus (including the 2 seen here) are ever actually used by Amerindians to poison their darts.
The common hop-toad of American backyards, this chunky animal eats anything that wiggles and fits in its mouth.
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 Global Amphibian Assessment Glossary
Common Name : The common name of a species is the vernacular name used to refer to a species.
EN: IUCN Red List Categories, Endangered: A taxon is Endangered when the best available evidence (large population decline, small population, small geographic area occupied, or if the calculated probability of extinction during the next 20 years is >20%) indicates that it is considered to be facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild.
English Common Name : The common name of a species is the vernacular name used to refer to a species.
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 News articles about Singapore's wild places
Common Iora (Aegithina tiphia singaporensis) Common Iora is a small Singapore songbird, named for the island but found in other parts of South-east Asia.
Singapore Black Caecilian (Ichthyophis singaporensis) The Singapore Black Caecilian is a strange animal dug up from the Thomson Road area in the late 1800s, but has not been seen since the Second World War.
Caecilians are related to salamanders and frogs, except that they have no legs.
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 Natural History: Squeeze play: brobdingnagian earthmoving "worms" dig their tunnels with a hydraulic ram - Biomechanics
When I first saw a live caecilian, I was convinced that I was looking at an earthworm large enough to strike fear in the heart of an Alabama large-mouth bass.
Nevertheless, James C. O'Reilly, a biomechanist at the University of Miami in Florida, has managed the task, and in the process has discovered that caecilians such as D. mexicanus not only look like worms, they move like them.
Furthermore, when the animal was prevented from sealing its single lung--thus preventing the pressure of the muscles from being transmitted throughout the rest of the body--the caecilian's burrowing force dropped considerably.
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Snakebite is also a very common accident in Sri Lanka which, with a population of 19 million, suffers hundreds of snakebite fatalities each year and has earned the dubious reputation of being the country with the highest annual snakebite death rate, per capita, in the world.
From a personal standpoint Mark is also excited to find his first wild caecilian (a legless amphibian) and handle his first living shieldtail (a strange burrowing snake) but many of these species failed to make the final film.
O'Shea found this rare Plain caecilian (Ichthyophis orthoplicatus) in a shallow muddy stream near Gampola in the Wet Zone highlands.
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 Snake Evolution - Photos of Vestigial Hind Limbs on Snakes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
There are probably no mammals without legs for the simple reason that the mammalian body couldn't move without appendages, the segementation of the abdominal region that provides propulsion is perhaps not as well suited for propulsion in mammalian bodies as in amphibian and reptilian snake-like bodies.
It would appear that snakes and mosasaurs are "sister groups," which means that they have a common ancestor that they do not share with any other animals, and that ancestral group split into two distinct lines, one of which evolved into mosasaurs while the other became snakes.
For the truly viviparous snakes, there are placenta-like connections between a female and her developing offspring — for example, common garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis) are known to provide a lot of nutrition to their embryos and dispose of embryonic wastes.
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 Froglog 42-1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
There are few places where caecilians are common.
The only place caecilians seem to be easy to find is the São Tomé Islands off the coast of West Africa.
At present, however, the caecilians there are still not endangered; hundreds can be found in just a couple of weeks in the less disturbed areas.
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 World of Pets - Caecilians, care, housing etc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Caecilians are legless amphibians of the order Gymnophiona, some species of which are kept as pets.
This caecilian is common on the beautiful Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean.
The caecilian tentacle has its origin within the eye-organs and is an olfactory organ.
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 About toads
Pictures L-R: the smooth newt (a urodele), a caecilian, a tiny red-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas), the common frog (Rana temporaria), the Australian frog (Crinia georgiana), and the common toad (Bufo bufo).
The common toad is effectively nocturnal, preferring to move and hunt at night, and can be found throughout the countryside of most of Western Europe.
The common toad is categorised as an explosive breeder, but males will call to attract unpaired females and deter other males, and there is some evidence that females may choose males with the deepest croak.
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 Caecilian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
They mostly live hidden in the ground which makes them the least explored order of amphibians.
Caecilians' feet and tails have degenerated, making the smaller species resemble worms, while the larger species with lengths up to 1.5 m resemble snakes.
Their skin is smooth and usually dark-matt, and bears some calcite scales which suggests that they are related with the fossil Stegocephalia.
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 Caeciliidae (Gray, 1825)
Caeciliidae is the largest, and most diverse caecilian family.
Members of this family are found in Africa, as well as the neo-tropics, and are characterized by the absence of a tail, and inferior mouth, and the presence of dermal scales (in some species).
Caecilian Families, and the Taxonomic Model - General introduction to the caecilian families (under development).
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 Natueal Medicine Urinary Tract Infection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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