Uraeotyphlus oxyurus (Dumeril & Bibron, 1841:280)
Red caecilian, Dark-brown caecilian, Pale-throated caecilian, Sharp-nosed caecilian, Sharp-tailed caecilian
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Caecilia oxyura Dumeril & Bibron, 1841:280
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 1841 or before
IUCN RedList status: Data Deficient
Distribution
Malabar, India
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Duméril, A. M. C. and Bibron, G. (1841). Erpétologie Genérale ou Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Volume 8. Paris: Librarie Enclyclopedique de Roret.
Other references:
Chanda, S.K. 2002. Handbook - Indian Amphibians. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata.
Dutta, S.K. 1997. Amphibians of India and Sri Lanka. Odyssey Publishing House, Bhubaneswar.
Sushil Dutta, Gopalakrishna Bhatta, David Gower, Oommen V. Oommen, Mark Wilkinson. 2004. Uraeotyphlus oxyurus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T59658A11965831. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T59658A11965831.en . Downloaded on 17 October 2015.
Gower, D. J., Kupfer, A., Oommen, O. V., Himstedt, W., Nussbaum, R. A., Loader, S. P., Presswell, B., Müller, H., Krishna, S. B., Boistel, R. and Wilkinson, M. (2002). A molecular phylogeny of ichthyophiid caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Ichthyophiidae): Out of India or out of southeast Asia? Procceedings of the Royal Society B 269: 1563-1569.
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.
Nussbaum, R.A. 1979. The taxonomic status of the caecilian genus Uraeotyphlus Peters. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology of the University of Michigan: 1-20.
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.
Taylor, E.H. 1968. The Caecilians of the World. A Taxonomic Review. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas.
Venu, G. and Venkatachalaiah, G. (2013). Chromosomal homology of Uraeotyphlus oxyurus group of species (Amphibia, Gymnophiona, Ichthyophiidae). Comparative Cytogenetics 7(1): 11-23. https://doi.org/10.3897%2FCompCytogen.v7i1.3603
Wilkinson, M. and Nussbaum, R.A. 1992. On the phylogenetic position of the Uraeotyphlidae (Amphibia: Gymnophiona). Copeia: 550-562.
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