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Typhlonectes natans
This picture was taken in the Chattanooga Zoo in Tennessee
Spotted on Aug 9, 2013
Submitted on Jan 18, 2015
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Congrats! This spotting has been featured as a PN Fact of the Day:
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Project Noah Fact of the Day: Caecilians (order Gymnophiona) are one of the three main amphibian groups, frogs and salamanders are the other two. They can be terrestrial or aquatic like the species pictured. Most are nocturnal and fossorial. They feed upon worms and other small invertebrates.
Caecilian (Typhlonectes natans) spotted at the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA by PN user ThomasCaelifera:
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/117...