Black and white worm lizard, Amphisbaena fuliginosa 66, and Guayaquil caecilian, Caecilia tentaculata 67. Handcolored copperplate engraving from G. T. Wilhelm's "Encyclopedia of Natural History: Amphibia," Augsburg, 1794. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergyman and naturalist known as the German Buffon.

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