๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Frigate Island Caecilian live?

Hypogeophis rostratus has 2,120 records in 1 countries and territories, from 1952 to 2021. Most records come from Seychelles.

Frigate Island Caecilian
Frigate Island Caecilian โ€” Photo: Salifa Karapetyan, Seychelles News Agency ยท CC BY 4.0 ยท Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataAmphibiaGymnophionaIndotyphlidaeHypogeophis

When it is recorded

JFMAMJJASOND

Peak month: October. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

19522021

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Seychelles 2,120

Related animals

Others in the family Indotyphlidae.

Grandisonia alternans
630 records
Grandisonia larvata
Grandisonia larvata
462 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months โ€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map โ€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.