Uraeotyphlus interruptus Pillai & Ravichandran, 1999
Chengalam caecilian
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 1992
IUCN RedList status: Data Deficient
Distribution
Kerala, India
Biology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Pillai, R. S. and Ravichandran, M. S. (1999). Gymnophiona (Amphibia) of India - A taxonomic study. Records of the Zoological Survey of India (Occ. Paper) 172: 1-117.
Other references:
Dutta, S.K. 1997. Amphibians of India and Sri Lanka. Odyssey Publishing House, Bhubaneswar.
Sushil Dutta, Gopalakrishna Bhatta, David Gower, Mark Wilkinson, Oommen V. Oommen. (2004). Uraeotyphlus interruptus. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 17 February 2013.
Gower, D.J. and Wilkinson, M. 2005. Conservation biology of caecilian amphibians. Conservation Biology 19(1): 45-55.
Gower, D.J. and Wilkinson, M. 2007. Species groups in the Indian caecilian genus Uraeotyphlus Peters (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Uraeotyphlidae), with the description of a new species. Herpetologica 63: 401-410.
http://www.lostspeciesindia.org/LAI2/wanted.php
http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/19928/uraeotyphlus-interruptus