Talk:Boulengerula taitana

Is this a Caecilian? Stepp-Wulf (talk) 01:10, 3 June 2009 (UTC).

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Peer Edit
I thought this article was very well written and well sourced. The sections were in the correct order according to the outline provided to our class. I thought that the language may have been difficult for a reader who is not well versed in biological terms. The author may consider adding short clarifications or links for words like ostium, cloaca, ciliated cells, etc. I also added a few words to the lead section to help foreshadow the information later in the article. Well done! Mashal Naqvi (talk) 23:21, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

Peer Review
Good Lead, although the sentence about the mother feeding her offspring with her skin is worded a bit odd. Cool fact though.

Added in hyperlinks for scientific terms most people wouldn’t know, but would probably be beneficial to summarize these terms in the text of the article as well.

I would dumb-down the section about teeth as well. It’s hard to find the hyperlinks for some of the words.

Few small edits in the Habitat section.

The first sentence of the movement paragraph is really wordy and a bit confusing. I think it could be paraphrased better.

Added more hyperlinks and rephrased a few things.

Would definitely recommend defining some of these super anatomical terms in the fertilization section, especially the “lumen”, “crypts”, “ciliated” and “secretory cells”.

In Site Selection, you write that the terrestrial chambers “negate development through an aquatic larval stage.” Do other caecilians undergo an aquatic larval stage? Or is this just in comparison to other amphibians? I would specify. The last sentence of this section is also a bit awkwards. Maybe rephrase to something like, “By doing so, females increase the likelihood of communal breeding and social interactions, to the benefit of themself and their offspring.”

Overall, this article has a lot of really interesting information about the inner-workings of this species. Kudos to you for reading through a lot of physiological and anatomical studies! This is a great article, and I think could definitely reach good article status with the addition of a few pictures and re-wording a few sentences. Would also benefit from defining some of the more niche terms. Lvanzen3 (talk) 22:44, 17 November 2022 (UTC)

Peer review
Overall, a well done article. I deleted a few extraneous verbage, such "taxa" in the diet section, to make the article clearer. One thing that I changed was your first sentence under conservation, where you stated that B. taitana is locally abundant; however, this contradicts its endangered classification. I went onto the IUCN website and replaced that sentence with its conservation status. One section that I think could use a bit of work is "life cycle". I rewrote the sentence under there to make more sense; however, I do think the article would benefit greatly with more information there. B1deng (talk) 22:50, 17 November 2022 (UTC)

Peer edit
Great article!! Super strange and cool animal.

Changed the sentence structure for the fact about mothers feeding their offspring with their skin (I noticed someone else mentioned that above). Various other grammar and concision edits.

I also the adult diet section. I found a great source describing an experiment on their feeding mechanism (10.1002/jez.1745) which is super cool and different from other amphibians. Frogboi123 (talk) 06:31, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

Peer edit
This is overall a great article. It covers a wide range of topics about the animal, and each topic/section is clearly explained.

I added a sentence in the 'Geographic Distribution' subsection: "Furthermore, there are two distinct rainy seasons: 'masika' season from March to May with long rains and 'vuli' season from October to December with short rains." I cited the sentence from one of the references that has already been used. It seems like these monsoonal seasons are a significant characteristic of the Taita Hills. Also, some of the studies in the references that you used seemed to be conducting their studies in one of these seasons, so I thought mentioning these specific seasons would be a good addition.

I also edited the 'Feeding Young' subsection. I found a useful source that describes the ontogenetic differences in the feeding biomechanics of oviparous and viviparous caecilians and mentions about the skin-feeding of B. taitana juveniles. The doi link of the source is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2010.05.002. I added the sentence: "Researchers suggest that skin feeding is similar to adult feeding in terms of bite forces over different gape angles." I cited the sentence with the source that I found.

One suggestion to improve the Wikipedia page would be adding more information in Physiology section, such as information about Locomotion, Vision, and Digestion.

Turturenhydra (talk) 12:10, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

Uniqueness
The page for Siphonops annulatus mentions how some of the behavior in this page which is deemed unique is actually also part of that (closely related) species. This page should be edited to reflect that. --Dynamo128 (talk) 12:49, 3 August 2023 (UTC)