Ichthyophis
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Ichthyophis bombayensis |
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| Fitzinger , 1826 |
Ichthyophis is a genus of amphibians from the order of the sneak amphibian (Gymnophiona).
description
There are scales on the skin. The eyes are under the skin. There are two rows of teeth in the lower jaw. Os squamosum and os parietale meet. The tentacles are cone-shaped and lie between the eye and the nostril.
Occurrence
The genus occurs from South Asia to the western part of the Indo-Australian archipelago as well as in the Philippines.
Systematics
The genus Ichthyophis was first described by Leopold Fitzinger in 1826 . It comprises 50 species (as of November 18, 2018):
- Ichthyophis acuminatus Taylor , 1960
- Ichthyophis alfredi Mathew & Sen , 2009
- Ichthyophis asplenius Taylor , 1965
- Ichthyophis atricollaris Taylor , 1965
- Ichthyophis bannanicus Yang , 1984
- Ichthyophis beddomei Peters , 1880
- Ichthyophis bernisi Salvador , 1975
- Ichthyophis biangularis Taylor , 1965
- Ichthyophis billitonensis Taylor , 1965
- Ichthyophis bombayensis Taylor , 1960
- Ichthyophis cardamomensis Geissler , Poyarkov , Grismer , Nguyen , An , Neang , Kupfer , Ziegler , Böhme & Müller , 2015
- Ichthyophis catlocensis Geissler , Poyarkov , Grismer , Nguyen , An , Neang , Kupfer , Ziegler , Böhme & Müller , 2015
- Ichthyophis chaloensis Geissler , Poyarkov , Grismer , Nguyen , An , Neang , Kupfer , Ziegler , Böhme & Müller , 2015
- Ichthyophis daribokensis Mathew & Sen , 2009
- Ichthyophis davidi Bhatta , Dinesh , Prashanth , Kulkarni & Radhakrishnan , 2011
- Ichthyophis dulitensis Taylor , 1960
- Ichthyophis elongatus Taylor , 1965
- Ichthyophis garoensis Pillai & Ravichandran , 1999
- Ichthyophis glandulosus Taylor , 1923
- Ichthyophis glutinosus ( Linnaeus , 1758) - Ceylonwühle
- Ichthyophis humphreyi Taylor , 1973
- Ichthyophis hypocyaneus ( Boie , 1827)
- Ichthyophis javanicus Taylor , 1960
- Ichthyophis khumhzi Kamei , Wilkinson , Gower & Biju , 2009
- Ichthyophis kodaguensis Wilkinson , Gower , Govindappa & Venkatachalaiah , 2007
- Ichthyophis kohtaoensis Taylor , 1960
- Ichthyophis lakimi Nishikawa , Matsui & Yambun , 2012
- Ichthyophis laosensis Taylor , 1969
- Ichthyophis larutensis Taylor , 1960
- Ichthyophis longicephalus Pillai , 1986
- Ichthyophis mindanaoensis Taylor , 1960
- Ichthyophis monochrous ( Bleeker , 1858)
- Ichthyophis moustakius Kamei , Wilkinson , Gower & Biju , 2009
- Ichthyophis multicolor Wilkinson , Presswell , Sherratt , Papadopoulou & Gower , 2014
- Ichthyophis nguyenorum Nishikawa , Matsui & Orlov , 2012
- Ichthyophis nigroflavus Taylor , 1960
- Ichthyophis nokrekensis Mathew & Sen , 2009
- Ichthyophis orthoplicatus Taylor , 1965
- Ichthyophis paucidentulus Taylor , 1960
- Ichthyophis paucisulcus Taylor , 1960
- Ichthyophis pauli Nishikawa , Matsui , Sudin & Wong , 2013
- Ichthyophis pseudangularis Taylor , 1965
- Ichthyophis Sendenyu Kamei , Wilkinson , Gower & Biju , 2009
- Ichthyophis sikkimensis Taylor , 1960
- Ichthyophis singaporensis Taylor , 1960
- Ichthyophis sumatranus Taylor , 1960
- Ichthyophis supachaii Taylor , 1960
- Ichthyophis tricolor Annandale , 1909
- Ichthyophis weberi Taylor , 1920
- Ichthyophis youngorum Taylor , 1960
The species Ichthyophis husaini , of which only a single specimen could be found in Meghalaya ( India ) in 1983 , was assigned to the species Ichthyophis garoensis in February 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Fritz Nieden: Gymnophiona . In: FE Schulze (ed.): Das Tierreich . R. Friedländer and Son, 1913, p. 5.
- ↑ a b Darrel R. Frost: Ichthyophis Fitzinger, 1826 . In: Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference . Version 6.0 (accessed November 18, 2018). ( online ).
- ↑ Peter Geissler, Nikolay A. Poyarkov Jr., Lee Grismer, Truong Q. Nguyen, Hang T. An, Thy Neang, Alexander Kupfer, Thomas Ziegler, Wolfgang Böhme and Hendrik Müller: New Ichthyophis Species from Indochina (Gymnophiona, Ichthyophiidae): 1. The Unstriped Forms with Descriptions of Three New Species and the Redescriptions of I. acuminatus Taylor, 1960, I. youngorum Taylor, 1960 and I. laosensis Taylor, 1969. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 12/2014. doi : 10.1007 / s13127-014-0190-6
- ↑ Lost! Amphibians of India
- ^ RG Kamei, SD Biju: On the taxonomic status of Ichthyophis husaini Pillai & Ravichandran, 1999 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Ichthyophiidae). In: Zootaxa. Volume 4079, number 1, February 2016, pp. 140-150, doi : 10.11646 / zootaxa.4079.1.10 , PMID 27395997 .
- ↑ Ichthyophis garoensis on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species .
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