. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. 330 Bulletin Museum of Comparative Zoology, Vol. 158, No. 6. 1 cm Figure 31. A composite reconstruction of Eocaecilia micropodia depicting the relative size of skull, vertebrae, limb girdles and limbs. where tooth number increases with body size and age. Nonetheless, these uncer- tainties do not eclipse the fact that E. mi- cropodia possesses about twice the num- ber of teeth as most gymnophionans. In a survey of 158 Recent taxa, Taylor (1968) reported 99 species (or 63%) with unilat- eral tooth counts of 20
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. 330 Bulletin Museum of Comparative Zoology, Vol. 158, No. 6. 1 cm Figure 31. A composite reconstruction of Eocaecilia micropodia depicting the relative size of skull, vertebrae, limb girdles and limbs. where tooth number increases with body size and age. Nonetheless, these uncer- tainties do not eclipse the fact that E. mi- cropodia possesses about twice the num- ber of teeth as most gymnophionans. In a survey of 158 Recent taxa, Taylor (1968) reported 99 species (or 63%) with unilat- eral tooth counts of 20 or fewer in the pre- maxilla—maxillary, vomeropalatine, and pseudodentary rows; 136 species (or 86%) have 25 or fewer. At the upper end of the range are the ichthyophiids Ichthyophis elongatus and Caudacaecilia nigroflava, both with about 30 teeth in the premaxil- la—maxillary, vomeropalatine, and pseu- dodentary rows (Taylor, 1968). In his original description of the Sey- chellean species Praslinia cooperi, Boulen- ger (1909: 292-293) noted that ". . the teeth are more numerous than in any oth- er known genus of Caeciliids . . [with] 40 to 48 teeth on each side of the upper jaw, and about as many in the outer mandib- ular series on each side; about 45 inner mandibular teeth ; Close ex- amination of Boulenger's illustration (1909, fig. lb) shows a unilateral count of 47 pre maxilla—maxillary teeth, 40 vomero- palatine teeth, and 47 or 48 and 25 or 26 in the labial and lingual pseudodentary rows, respectively. Subsequent authors re- port comparably high counts; Parker (1941) cited 36—48 premaxilla—maxillary teeth, and Nussbaum and Wilkinson's (1989: 37) diagnosis of this monotypic ge- nus includes "teeth small, uniform in size, more than 50 per row, except for the ; No data on the diameter and height are available in the literature; mea- surements made with an ocular microme- ter of the teeth illustrated by Boulenger (1909,-fig.
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