The Western Ghats in India are home to several species of caecilians (Gymnophiona). Caecilians are legless, burrowing amphibians which mostly live in leaf...
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loose mud, caecilians instead swim in an eel-like fashion. Caecilians in the family Typhlonectidae are aquatic, and the largest of their kind. The representatives...
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Ichthyophis davidi (redirect from Chorla giant striped caecilian)
in the Mhadei region of India. It is one of the largest known limbless, yellow-striped caecilians from the Western Ghats. It is named in honour of David...
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Uraeotyphlus (redirect from Indian caecilians)
a genus of caecilians in the family Ichthyophiidae. There are seven species in this genus, all of which are endemic to the Western Ghats of southwestern...
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Uraeotyphlus narayani (redirect from Narayan's caecilian)
Uraeotyphlus narayani, or Narayan's caecilian, is a species of caecilian endemic to the Western Ghats of India. This species is grey with a pale, flesh-coloured...
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Battersby's caecilian (Indotyphlus battersbyi) is a slender species of caecilian endemic to the Western Ghats, India. It has a flesh-coloured body, making...
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Gegeneophis ramaswamii (redirect from Forest caecilian)
Bhatta, Gopalakrishna (1998). "A field guide to the caecilians of the Western Ghats, India". Journal of Biosciences. 23 (1): 73–85. doi:10.1007/BF02728526...
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Ichthyophis beddomei (redirect from Yellow-striped caecilian)
is a species of caecilian in the family Ichthyophiidae. This species is distributed widely in the Western Ghats in southern India. The nominal species...
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Ichthyophis tricolor (redirect from Three-colored caecilian)
Ichthyophis tricolor, the three-colored caecilian or Maddatorai caecilian, is an amphibian endemic to the Western Ghats, India. Its taxonomic status is...
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Ichthyophis longicephalus (redirect from Long-headed caecilian)
Silent Valley National Park). Bhatta, G. 1998. A field guide to the caecilians of the Western Ghats, India. Journal of Biosciences, Vol. 23(1): 73-85...
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Ichthyophiidae (redirect from Asiatic tailed caecilians)
The Ichthyophiidae are the family of Asiatic tailed caecilians or fish caecilians found in South and Southeast Asia as well as southernmost China. They...
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Uraeotyphlus oxyurus (redirect from Red caecilian)
Bhatta, Gopalakrishna (1998). "A field guide to the caecilians of the Western Ghats, India". Journal of Biosciences. 23 (1): 73–85. doi:10.1007/BF02728526...
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Indotyphlus maharashtraensis (redirect from Maharashtra caecilian)
species of caecilians described in 2004 by scientists of Bombay Natural History Society and the Natural History Museum, London. It is only the second species...
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Uraeotyphlus menoni (redirect from Menon's caecilian)
Menon's caecilian or Kerala caecilian, is a species of caecilian in the family Ichthyophiidae. It is endemic to the state of Kerala in the Western Ghats, India...
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Gegeneophis carnosus (category Endemic fauna of the Western Ghats)
Gopalakrishna (March 1998). "A field guide to the caecilians of the Western Ghats, India" (PDF). Journal of Biosciences. 23 (1): 73–85. doi:10.1007/BF02728526...
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Gegeneophis danieli (redirect from Amboli caecilian)
the Amboli caecilian or Daniel's caecilian, is a species of caecilians in the family Indotyphlidae. It was discovered from near Amboli in Western Ghats...
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Uraeotyphlus gansi (redirect from Gansi caecilian)
the Gansi caecilian, is a rare species of caecilian, endemic to the Western Ghats of India. It was discovered in the Kaakkaachi-Naalumukku area of the...
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Gopalakrishna (March 1998). "A field guide to the caecilians of the Western Ghats, India". Journal of Biosciences. 23: 73–85. doi:10.1007/BF02728526...
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Uraeotyphlus malabaricus (redirect from Malabar tailed caecilian)
Uraeotyphlus malabaricus is a species of caecilian in the family Ichthyophiidae. It is endemic to the Western Ghats of India and is known from its type locality...
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Gegeneophis mhadeiensis (redirect from Mahadeyi caecilian)
to the Western Ghats in southern India, and is threatened by habitat loss. The specific name, mhadeiensis, refers to the type locality on the bank of a...
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pockets of primary forests in valleys. The Western Ghats are well known for harboring 14 endemic species of caecilians (i.e., legless amphibians) out of 15...
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included in the Nilgiri biosphere reserve in 1986, a UNESCO designation. In the Biligiriranga Hills the Eastern Ghats meet the Western Ghats. The state bird...
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Gaikwad, K. S. (2013). Towards the Conservation of Caecilian Amphibians of the Northern Western Ghats: Establishing the Systematic Foundation. Mumbai:...
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Periyar National Park (category South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests)
Pandalam Hills of the south Western Ghats along the border with Tamil Nadu. It is 4 km (2.5 mi) from Kumily, Thekkady, 86 km (53 mi) south east of Thodupuzha...
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Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary (category Wildlife sanctuaries of the Western Ghats)
The Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary is a 208.5-km2 (80.5-mi2) protected area in the Indian state of Goa in the Western Ghats of South India. It is located in...
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Indotyphlus (category Endemic fauna of the Western Ghats)
endemic to the Western Ghats, India. They are sometimes known as Battersby's caecilians. Indotyphlus are small caecilians, with the largest specimen (a female...
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Officially, four out of the 36 Biodiversity Hotspots in the world are present in India: the Himalayas, the Western Ghats, the Indo-Burma and the Nicobar Islands...
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Uraeotyphlus oommeni (redirect from Bonnacord caecilian)
oommeni, sometimes known as the Oommen's caecilian, Oommen's Uraeotyphlus, or Bonnacord caecilian, is a species of caecilian in the family Ichthyophiidae....
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Anamalai Tiger Reserve (category Wildlife sanctuaries of the Western Ghats)
in 2008. The Park and the Sanctuary is under consideration by UNESCO as part of The Western Ghats World Heritage Site. The Sanctuary and the Palni Hills...
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Sathyabhama Das Biju (category Academic staff of Delhi University)
vertebrate group led to the creation of two important conservation initiatives in India. The Western Ghats Network of Protected Areas of Threatened Amphibians...
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