Chikila gaiduwani Kamei, Gower, Wilkinson, and Biju, 2013

Class: Amphibia > Order: Gymnophiona > Family: Chikilidae > Genus: Chikila > Species: Chikila gaiduwani

Chikila gaiduwani Kamei, Gower, Wilkinson, and Biju, 2013, Zootaxa, 3666: 425. Holotype: ZSI A11543, by original designation. Type locality: "Teobronggre (Theobongiri) Coffee Garden (25.61750 N, 90.23639 E; 519 m asl), Teobronggre, Tura, West Garo Hills district, Meghalaya, India". 

English Names

Gaiduwan's Chikila (original publication). 

Gaiduwan's Chikila Caecilian (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 15).

Distribution

Known from the type locality Teobronggre Coffee Garden, Teobronggre, Tura and surrounding areas in West Garo Hills district and from Nongpoh, Ri Bhoi district of Meghalaya; and Dwarka, Goalpara district and Kanchiguli, Garbhanga, Kamrup district of Assam, India, 86–538 meters elevation. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

 See Kamei, 2017, Das (ed.), Diversity Ecol. Amph. India: 49–72, for a review of this species. 

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