Gegeneophis seshachari Ravichandran, Gower, and Wilkinson, 2003
Gegeneophis seshachari Ravichandran, Gower, and Wilkinson, 2003, Zootaxa, 350: 2. Holotype: ZSIC A3384, by original designation. Type locality: "Dorle Village, Ratnagiri District, Maharashtra, India".
English Names
Seshachari's Caecilian (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 127).
Distribution
Known only from the type locality (Dorle Village, Ratnagiri District, Maharashtra) in the Western Ghats of southwestern India).
Comment
Gower, Giri, and Wilkinson, 2007, Herpetozoa, 19: 121-127, reported on an additional specimen from the type locality. Bhatta, Dinesh, Prashanth, Kulkarni, and Radhakrishnan, 2010, J. Threatened Taxa, 2: 1105-1108, provided a dot-map of the species.
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