Ichthyophis Fitzinger, 1826

Wilkinson, Mark, Mauro, Diego San, Sherratt, Emma & Gower, David J., 2011, A nine-family classification of caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona), Zootaxa 2874, pp. 41-64 : 50

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Type species: Caecilia glutinosa Linnaeus, 1758 ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 ) by original monotypy.

Diagnosis: The only ichthyophiids with inner mandibular teeth and tentacular apertures below and intermediate between the eyes and nares.

Distribution: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam.

Content: 38 species ( acuminatus , alfredii, atricollaris , bannanicus , beddomei , bernisi , biangularis , billitonensis , bombayensis , daribokensis, dulitensis , elongatus , garoensis , glandulosus , glutinosus , humphreyi , husaini , hypocyaneus , javanicus , khumhzi, kodaguensis , kohtaoensis , laosensis , longicephalus , mindanaoensis , monochrous , moustakius, nokrekensis, orthoplicatus , paucisulcus , pseudangularis , sendenyu, sikkimensis , singaporensis , sumatranus , supachaii , tricolor , youngorum ).

Fitzinger, L. J. (1826) Neue Classification der Reptilien nach ihren naturlichen Verwand-tschaften nebst einer Verwandschaftstafel und einem Verzeichnisse der Reptiliensammlungen des K. K. zoologischen Museums zu Wien. J. G. Heubner, Wien.

Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema Naturae (10 th Ed), Laurentii Salva, Holmiae.

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FIGURE 5. Volume reconstruction of HRXCT data showing skull of Ichthyophis glutinosus (MW 1773). Views as in Fig. 2. Scale bar = 1 mm. Scan parameters: a molybdenum target set at 95 kV and 190 μA; scan data were collected at 2.0 frames per second over 3142 projections in 360 ˚; reconstructed voxel size of 13 μm. Abbreviations as in Appendix.