Gegeneophis pareshi Giri, Gower, Gaikwad, and Wilkinson, 2011

Class: Amphibia > Order: Gymnophiona > Family: Grandisoniidae > Genus: Gegeneophis > Species: Gegeneophis pareshi

Gegeneophis pareshi Giri, Gower, Gaikwad, and Wilkinson, 2011, Zootaxa, 2815: 50. Holotype: BNHS 5264, by original designation. Type locality: "the village of Kuske near Cotigaon Wildlife Sanctuary, Canacona Taluka, South Goa District, Goa (15° 01′ N, 74° 12.5′ E, 140 m a.s.l.)".

English Names

Paresh's Gegeneophis (original publication).

Cotigaon Blind Caecilian (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 16).

Distribution

Western Ghats region of southern Goa, India.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

 A brief characterization, photograph, and dot map provided by Subramanian, Dinesh, and Radhakrishnan, 2013, Atlas of Endemic Amph. W. Ghats: 173.

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