Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Epicrium carnosum Beddome, 1870, Madras Month. J. Med. Sci., 2: 176. Syntypes: Not stated; BMNH 1946.9.5.64-65 (formerly 74.4.29.453-454), according to Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 733. Type locality: "Periah Peak, Wynaad, [Kerala,] at an elevation of about 5,000 feet; under stones", India.

Gegenes carnosus — Günther, 1876 "1875", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1875: 577.

Gegeneophis carnosus — Peters, 1880 "1879", Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1879: 932.

Gegenophis carnosus — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Grad. Batr. Apoda Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 101.

English Names

Periah Peak Caecilian (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 23; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 124).

Blind Caecilian (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 67).

Pink Blind Caecilian (Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 93).

Distribution

Peninsular India in Karnataka (Kotegehar, Maliege Range), Kerala from Kallar at the foot of the Ponmudi Hills; Tenmalai and Trivandrum at sea level.

Comment

See brief accounts by Daniel, 1963, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 60: 427-428, Inger, Shaffer, Koshy, and Bakde, 1984, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 81: 407, Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 31, and Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 184, provided a brief account. Malathesh, Gundappa, Ravichandra-Reddy, and Shakuntala, 2002, Zoos' Print J., 17, provided a redescription and discussion of habitat. Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 93-94, provided an account. Bhatta, Dinesh, Prashanth, Kulkarni, and Radhakrishnan, 2010, J. Threatened Taxa, 2: 1105-1108, provided a dot-map of the species.

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