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Boulengerula niedeni Müller, Measey, Loader, and Malonza, 2005
Nomenclature
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Family: Caeciliidae Rafinesque, 1814Genus: Boulengerula Tornier, 1896
Species:
Boulengerula niedeni Müller, Measey, Loader, and Malonza, 2005
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SUMMARY
This species is named for Fritz Nieden, herpetologist at the Zoologisches Museum Berlin during the early 1910s.
The Sagalla people once thought of this animal as ‘mng’ori’ meaning earthworm, but now this caecilian is called 'kilimamrota' (Measey et al. 2009, © SANBI).