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Caecilians, members of the order Gymnophiona, are elongate, limbless and annulated animals with reduced eyes (Wake, 1985) and a unique organ at the head, the paired tentacle, which is connected with the vomeronasal organ via the tentacular duct (Schmidt and Wake, 1990). These morphological characters and behavioral studies suggest that the paired tentacle is involved in chemoreception (Himstedt and Simon, 1995).
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Warbeck, A., Parzefall, J. (2001). Mate Recognition via Waterborne Chemical Cues in the Viviparous Caecilian Typhlonectes Natans (Amphibia: Gymnophiona). In: Marchlewska-Koj, A., Lepri, J.J., Müller-Schwarze, D. (eds) Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 9. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0671-3_35
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