Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Ichthyophis glutinosus tricolor Annandale, 1909, Rec. Indian Mus., 3: 286. Syntypes: Presumably ZSIC (2 specimens); Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 148, thought that there was a single type in the ZSIC, but he did not locate it there. Type locality: "at or near the base of the Western Ghats in the State of Travancore . . . . at Maddathorai in a hollow tree".

Ichthyophis tricolor — Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 148.

English Names

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

Three-colored Caecilian (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 67; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 131).

Distribution

Known from a few localities in the Western Ghats of southeastern India (Tamil Nadu and Kerala).

Comment

See accounts by Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 27, Pillai and Ravichandran, 1999, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 172: 56-58, and Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 192. Gower, Bahir, Mapatuna, Pethiyagoda, Raheem, and Wilkinson, 2005, Raffles Bull. Zool., Suppl., 12: 153-161, noted that the nominal species may be composite. Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 86-87, provided an account and noted that some authors regarded Ichthyophis tricolor as a color variant of Ichthophis beddomei.

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