Abstract
As part of a study of the comparative and functional morphology of the head of members of the order Gymnophiona (caecilians, the limbless, elongate fossorial or aquatic amphibians) we have investigated the morphology and distribution of sensory receptors (see also Hetherington and Wake, 1979; Fritzsch and Wake, 1986). We report for the first time the presence of taste buds in gymnophione amphibians. Tiepel (1932) reported that he was not able to find taste buds in Hypogeophis. We find them (so far) only in adults of the aquatic Typhlonectes compressicaudus and in aquatic larvae of an undetermined species of Ichthyophis. The taste buds lie not on the tongue, but in the oral mucosa between the teeth of the
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