Gegeneophis madhavai Bhatta and Srinivasa, 2004

Class: Amphibia > Order: Gymnophiona > Family: Grandisoniidae > Genus: Gegeneophis > Species: Gegeneophis madhavai

Gegeneophis madhavai Bhatta and Srinivasa, 2004, Zootaxa, 644: 2. Holotype: BNHM 4235, by original designation. Type locality: "Doddinaguli locality (Mudur Village, Kundapura Taluk, Udupi District, Karnataka State)", India.

Gegeneophis madhavaorumDas, 2006, Herpetol. Rev., 37: 154. Unjustified emendation according to Dubois, 2007, Zootaxa, 1550: 67.

English Names

Mudur Caecilian (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 125).

Mudur Blind Caecilian (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 16).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Doddinaguli locality, Mudur Village, Kundapura Taluk, Udupi District, Karnataka State) in the Western Ghats of southwestern India.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

Bhatta, Dinesh, Prashanth, Kulkarni, and Radhakrishnan, 2010, J. Threatened Taxa, 2: 1105-1108, provided a dot-map of the species. Venu, Bhatta, and Venkatachalaiah, 2012, Curr. Herpetol., Kyoto, 31: 14-20, reported on karyology. A brief characterization, photograph, and dot map provided by Subramanian, Dinesh, and Radhakrishnan, 2013, Atlas of Endemic Amph. W. Ghats: 170.

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