Cayenne caecilian

Typhlonectes compressicauda in an aquarium

The Schwimmwühle ( Typhlonectes compressicauda ) is an aquatic Blindwühle.

Features

The 30 to 60 centimeters long Schwimmwühle memories of their long, slender, black body is dark gray hand, and with their swimming behavior of an eel. The body is covered with 80 to 95 rings. The tail is laterally flattened and the upper side provided with a Flossensaum.

Swimming rooting are viviparous. Because, unlike most amphibians, internal fertilization takes place, have males on the bottom of a whitish holdfast to hold the female during copulation can.

Occurrence of life

The Schwimmwühle lives in northern South America, the Amazon Basin and Guyana in rivers, lakes and streams. She comes territory as still quite common and feeds on earthworms and other invertebrates.

The embryonic and larval development takes place in the womb. The young are born fully developed into the world.

In captivity, the life is up to ten years.