Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Caecilia hypocyanea Boie In Schlegel, 1826, Bull. Sci. Nat. Geol., Paris, Ser. 2, 9: 239. Nomen nudum.

Ichthopis Hasselti Fitzinger, 1826, Neue Class. Rept.: 63. Nomen nudum. Synonymy by Peters, 1880 "1879", Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1879: 931.

Coecilia hypocyanea Boie, 1827, Isis von Oken, 20: 565. Type(s): RMNH 2408 is holotype according to M.S. Hoogmoed in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 634 (a lectotype designation by implication); NHMW 9097 [Java] stated to be a type (exchanged from RMNH); considered to be a syntype by Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 95; this specimen considered the holotype by Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 9, and Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 11. Gassó Miracle, van den Hoek Ostende, and Arntzen, 2007, Zootaxa, 1482: 36, noted that NHMW 9097 and RMNH 2408-09 were all membes of the syntype series. Type locality: "Java"; rendered as "wet and marshy places on the north coast of Bantam [Province]", western Java, Indonesia by Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 95. Placed on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology by Opinion 1749, Anonymous, 1993, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 50: 261-263.

Epicrium hasselti Wagler, 1828, Isis von Oken, 21: 743. Types: Not stated or known to exist. Type locality: "Java insula locis paludosis", Indonesia. Synonymy by Wagler, 1830, Nat. Syst. Amph.: 198; Peters, 1880 "1879", Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1879: 931.

Epicrium hypocyana — Wagler, 1830, Nat. Syst. Amph.: 198. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Caecilia (Ichthyophis) hypocyanea — Van der Hoeven, 1833, Handb. Dierkd., 2: 303. by implication.

Ichthyophis hypocyaneus — Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 94.

English Names

Javanese Caecilia (Gray, 1831, in Cuvier, Animal Kingdom (Griffith), 9—Appendix: 110).

Marsh Caecilian (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 25).

Javan Caecilian (Iskandar, 1998, Amph. Java Bali: 28).

Distribution

Java, Indonesia.

Comment

See account by Iskandar, 1998, Amph. Java Bali: 28-29, who noted that the species has not been recollected since the types and this may mean that the specimens did not originate on that island or that they have been extirpated there. Nishikawa, Matsui, Yong, Ahmad, Yambun, Belabut, Sudin, Hamidy, Orlov, Ota, Yoshikawa, Tominaga, and Shimada, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 63: 714-723, commented on the distinctiveness of this lineage (as Ichthyophis cf. hypocyaneus) from other members of this clade (e.g., their Ichthyophis cf. kohtaoensis, Ichthyophis cf. supachaii, and Ichthyophis unnamed species 1).

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