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Chikilidae Kamei, San Mauro, Gower, Van Bocxlaer, Sherratt, Thomas, Babu, Bossuyt, Wilkinson, and Biju, 2012
Chikilidae Kamei, San Mauro, Gower, Van Bocxlaer, Sherratt, Thomas, Babu, Bossuyt, Wilkinson, and Biju, 2012, Proc. R. Soc. London, Ser. B, Biol. Sci., 279: 2398. Type genus: Chikila Kamei, San Mauro, Gower, Van Bocxlaer, Sherratt, Thomas, Babu, Bossuyt, Wilkinson, and Biju, 2012.
Chikilini — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 407. Tribe of Herpelinae.
English Names
Northeast Indian Caecilians (Vitt and Caldwell, 2014, Herpetology, 4th Ed.: 452).
Distribution
Northeastern Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Tripura; likely to occur in adjacent Myanmar and Bangladesh.
Comment
Most closely related to Herpelidae according to the original publication. Vitt and Caldwell, 2014, Herpetology, 4th Ed., provided a summary of range, diagnosis, life history, and taxonomy. See Kamei, 2017, Das (ed.), Diversity Ecol. Amph. India: 49–72, for a review of the species. Treated as a tribe, Chikilini of Herpelinae by Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 407.
Contained taxa (4 sp.):
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