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Legless amphibians, called caecilians, have a very strange way of feeding their young.
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Wilkinson M, Sherratt E, Starace F, Gower DJ (2013) A New Species of Skin-Feeding Caecilian and the First Report of Reproductive Mode in Microcaecilia(Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Siphonopidae). PLoS ONE 8(3): e57756. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057756
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0057756

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