Gegeneophis madhavai Bhatta and Srinivasa, 2004
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 madhavaorum — Das, 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).
Distribution
Known only from the type locality (Doddinaguli locality, Mudur Village, Kundapura Taluk, Udupi District, Karnataka State) in the Western Ghats of southwestern India.
Comment
Bhatta, Dinesh, Prashanth, Kulkarni, and Radhakrishnan, 2010, J. Threatened Taxa, 2: 1105-1108, provided a dot-map of the species. Govindappa, Bhatta, and Venkatachalaiah, 2012, Curr. Herpetol., 31: 14-20, reported on karyology.
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