| postmortem findings in eight species of captive caecilian (amphibia: gymnophiona) over a ten-year period. | between july 2007 and june 2017 there were 86 deaths in the populations of eight caecilian species at the zoological society of london (zsl) london zoo. the mortality rate (deaths per animal-year at risk) ranged from 0.03 in the congo caecilian (herpele squalostoma) to 0.85 in kaup's caecilian (potomotyphlus kaupii). among the 73 individuals examined post mortem, no cause of death or primary diagnosis could be established in 35 cases, but of the others the most common cause of death was dermatit ... | 2020 | 31926519 |