How to Use caecilian in a Sentence

caecilian

noun

• Learn even more about frogs, toads, caecilians, salamanders and newts!
  — Staff Report, Houston Chronicle, 13 Feb. 2018
• The caecilian is native to Colombia and Venezuela although it has been found in tropical Africa and southeast Asia.
  — Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 30 July 2021
• And Typhlonectes natans, a plain brown caecilian that looks something like an earthworm on steroids, takes on a greenish-yellow glow.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 27 Feb. 2020
• Caecilian moms feed young their own skin In a few species of worm-like amphibians called caecilians, babies eat the fatty skin off their mom’s back.
  — National Geographic, 12 July 2019
• For example, the Rio Cauca caecilian — a gray, limbless aquatic amphibian — glowed bright green under the blue lights.
  — Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2020
• For salamanders and caecilians—weird little limbless amphibians that look like worms and eat their mother’s skin—the point of looking extra hot might be, well, reproduction.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 27 Feb. 2020
• Matriphagy is a rare occurrence found among certain spiders and the caecilian, a blind, legless amphibian that lives underground.
  — John Kass, Twin Cities, 11 June 2017
• On the other end, caecilian tails have glands that produce poison, presumably to discourage predators from chasing them through their subterranean highways.
  — Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 3 July 2020
• In the new study, scientists placed specimens from 32 species—including salamanders, frogs, and limbless, wormlike amphibians known as caecilians—onto a dark background and shone a blue or ultraviolet light on them.
  — Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Science | AAAS, 27 Feb. 2020
• Reproduction As amphibians, some caecilians lay their eggs in water or moist soil, similar to frog and salamander reproduction.
  — Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 27 June 2019

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