Gegeneophis danieli

Gegeneophis danieli
Systematics
Row :	Land vertebrates (Tetrapoda)
without rank:	Amphibians (Lissamphibia)
Order :	Sneak amphibian (Gymnophiona)
Family :	Indotyphlidae
Genre :	Counterophis
Type :	Gegeneophis danieli
Scientific name
	Gegeneophis danieli
	Giri , Wilkinson & Gower , 2003

Amboli caecilian is an amphibian - Art from the order of caecilians (Gymnophiona).

description

Gegeneophis danieli differs from all other Gegeneophis species by the more than 50 secondary annuli , which are lined with white and are present on both the front and the rear half of the body.

Occurrence

The species occurs in southwest India in the Western Ghats in Goa , the southern Maharashtra and the border area of Karnataka .

Systematics

Gegeneophis danieli was first described in 2003 by Giri , Wilkinson and Gower . The species was named after former director of the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) JC Daniel in recognition of its numerous contributions to the herpetology of India .

The species Gegeneophis nadkarnii described by Bhatta and Prashanth in 2004 is a synonym of Gegeneophis danieli .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Varad Giri, Mark Wilkinson, David J. Gower: A new species of Gegeneophis Peters (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from southern Maharashtra, India, with a key to the species of the genus . Zootaxa 351, 2003, pp. 1-10.
^ Darrel R. Frost: Gegeneophis danieli Giri, Wilkinson, and Gower, 2003 . In: Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference . Version 6.0 (accessed March 14, 2014). ( online ).
↑ Gopalakrishna Bhatta, P. Prashanth: Gegeneophis nadkarnii: a caecilian (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Ghats . Current Science, Vol. 87, No. 3, 2004, pp. 388-392.
↑ David J Gower, Varad Giri, Varun R. Torsekar, Kshamata Gaikwad, Mark Wilkinson: On the taxonomic status of Gegeneophis nadkarnii Bhatta & Prashanth, 2004 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Indotyphlidae) . Zootaxa, 3609, 2013. pp. 204-212.

Web link

Gegeneophis danieli inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Endangered Species . Listed by: David Gower, Mark Wilkinson, 2004. Retrieved March 17, 2014.

[Giri_2003-1] Varad Giri, Mark Wilkinson, David J. Gower: A new species of Gegeneophis Peters (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from southern Maharashtra, India, with a key to the species of the genus . Zootaxa 351, 2003, pp. 1-10.

[ASW-2] Darrel R. Frost: Gegeneophis danieli Giri, Wilkinson, and Gower, 2003 . In: Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference . Version 6.0 (accessed March 14, 2014). ( online ).

[Bhatta_2004-3] Gopalakrishna Bhatta, P. Prashanth: Gegeneophis nadkarnii: a caecilian (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Ghats . Current Science, Vol. 87, No. 3, 2004, pp. 388-392.

[Gower_2013-4] David J Gower, Varad Giri, Varun R. Torsekar, Kshamata Gaikwad, Mark Wilkinson: On the taxonomic status of Gegeneophis nadkarnii Bhatta & Prashanth, 2004 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Indotyphlidae) . Zootaxa, 3609, 2013. pp. 204-212.