Chikilidae Kamei, San Mauro, Gower, Van Bocxlaer, Sherratt, Thomas, Babu, Bossuyt, Wilkinson, and Biju, 2012

Class: Amphibia > Order: Gymnophiona > Family: Chikilidae
4 species

Chikilidae Kamei, San Mauro, Gower, Van Bocxlaer, Sherratt, Thomas, Babu, Bossuyt, Wilkinson, and Biju, 2012, Proc. R. Soc. London, Ser. B, Biol. Sci., 279: 2398. Type genus: Chikila Kamei, San Mauro, Gower, Van Bocxlaer, Sherratt, Thomas, Babu, Bossuyt, Wilkinson, and Biju, 2012.

Chikilini — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 271. Tribe. 

English Names

Northeast Indian Caecilians (Vitt and Caldwell, 2014, Herpetology, 4th Ed.: 452). 

Distribution

Northeastern Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Tripura; adjacent Bangladesh; likely to occur in adjacent Myanmar.

Comment

Most closely related to Herpelidae according to the original publication. Vitt and Caldwell, 2014, Herpetology, 4th Ed., provided a summary of range, diagnosis, life history, and taxonomy. See Kamei, 2017, Das (ed.), Diversity Ecol. Amph. India: 49–72, for a review of the species. Treated as a tribe, Chikilini of Herpelinae by Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 407. Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 1–738, considered Herpelidae to be a subfamily of Caeciliidae, and included Chikilidae as a tribe of their Herpelinae.   

Contained taxa (4 sp.):

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