Indotyphlus maharashtraensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gymnophiona
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Gymnophiona

Indotyphlus maharashtraensis Giri, Wilkinson & Gower, 2004: 2

Holotype: BNHS 4217, ♀, collected by Varad Giri, Sameer Kehimkar, Ishan Agarwal and Vithoba Hegade on 19 June 2003.
Type locality: “near Dhanagarwada, Humbarli village, near Koyna, Satara District, Maharashtra, India... on a plateau, under a rock in an open patch of grass surrounded by semievergreen forest. The locality is situated in the Western Ghats at approximately 1042 m above sea level”.

Giri, V., Wilkinson, M. & Gower, D.J. 2004. A new species of Indotyphlus Taylor (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from the Western Ghats, India. Zootaxa 739(1): 1–9. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.739.1.1 Reference page.

Frost, D. 2008. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.2 (15 July, 2008). Electronic Database accessible at www.research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. Indotyphlus maharashtraensis
AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2010. Berkeley, California: Indotyphlus maharashtraensis. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/.
Gower, D. 2006. IUCN: Indotyphlus maharashtraensis (Data Deficient). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2006: e.T61923A12573354. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T61923A12573354.en. Accessed on 08 February 2022.

English: Humbarli Caecilian