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Indotyphlus Taylor, 1960

Class: Amphibia > Order: Gymnophiona > Family: Indotyphlidae > Genus: Indotyphlus

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Indotyphlus Taylor, 1960, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 40: 31. Type species: Indotyphlus battersbyi Taylor, 1960, by original designation.

English Names

Battersby's Caecilians (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 24).

Distribution

Maharashtra, India.

Comment

Giri, Wilkinson, and Gower, 2003, Zootaxa, 351: 1-9, provided a key to the species. Wilkinson and Nussbaum, 2006, In Exbrayat (ed.), Reprod. Biol. Phylog. Gymnophiona: 39-78 [66], diagnosed the taxon and implied that its monophyly is insufficiently documented.

Contained taxa

  • Indotyphlus battersbyi Taylor, 1960
  • Indotyphlus maharashtraensis Giri, Wilkinson, and Gower, 2003

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