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| image_caption = Specimen from Basarekattae, [[Chickmagalur district]] | | image_caption = Specimen from Basarekattae, [[Chickmagalur district]] | ||
| status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1 | | status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1 | ||
| status_ref = <ref name= | | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 20 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=David Gower, Mark Wilkinson |date=2008 |title=''Ichthyophis kodaguensis'' |volume=2008 |page=e.T136094A4232490 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T136094A4232490.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}</ref> | ||
| taxon = Ichthyophis kodaguensis | | taxon = Ichthyophis kodaguensis | ||
| authority = {{Interlanguage link multi|Mark Wilkinson (herpetologist)|fr|Mark Wilkinson (herpétologiste)|lt=Wilkinson}}, Gower, Govindappa, and Venkatachalaiah, 2007<ref name="Wilkinson et al. 2007"/> | | authority = {{Interlanguage link multi|Mark Wilkinson (herpetologist)|fr|Mark Wilkinson (herpétologiste)|lt=Wilkinson}}, Gower, Govindappa, and Venkatachalaiah, 2007<ref name="Wilkinson et al. 2007"/> | ||
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'''''Ichthyophis kodaguensis''''', also known as the '''Kodagu striped Ichthyophis''', is a species of [[caecilian]] in the family [[Ichthyophiidae]].<ref name= | '''''Ichthyophis kodaguensis''''', also known as the '''Kodagu striped Ichthyophis''', is a species of [[caecilian]] in the family [[Ichthyophiidae]].<ref name="iucn status 20 November 2021" /><ref name=Frost/><ref name=AmphibiaWeb/> It is [[endemic]] to the southern [[Western Ghats]], India.<ref name="iucn status 20 November 2021" /><ref name=Frost/> All confirmed records are from southern [[Karnataka]] state, although it is also reported from adjacent [[Kerala]].<ref name=Frost/> | ||
==Distribution== | ==Distribution== | ||
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The type series was collected from a mixed coffee and [[areca nut]] plantation at {{convert|1143|m|abbr=on}} [[above sea level]]. The holotype was collected by digging in soil by a small stream.<ref name="Wilkinson et al. 2007"/> Another specimen was found at night on a dry pathway on a hill slope, just outside a wet evergreen forest fragment and some 50 m away from the closest water body, a rivulet.<ref name="Molur and Molur 2011"/> Two specimens have been found on a coffee plantation at an altitude similar to the type locality.<ref name="Bhatta et al. 2011"/> | The type series was collected from a mixed coffee and [[areca nut]] plantation at {{convert|1143|m|abbr=on}} [[above sea level]]. The holotype was collected by digging in soil by a small stream.<ref name="Wilkinson et al. 2007"/> Another specimen was found at night on a dry pathway on a hill slope, just outside a wet evergreen forest fragment and some 50 m away from the closest water body, a rivulet.<ref name="Molur and Molur 2011"/> Two specimens have been found on a coffee plantation at an altitude similar to the type locality.<ref name="Bhatta et al. 2011"/> | ||
In 2008, before new distributional records were published,<ref name="Molur and Molur 2011"/><ref name="Bhatta et al. 2011"/> the [[International Union for Conservation of Nature]] (IUCN) has classified ''Ichthyophis kodaguensis'' as "[[data deficient]]".<ref name= | In 2008, before new distributional records were published,<ref name="Molur and Molur 2011"/><ref name="Bhatta et al. 2011"/> the [[International Union for Conservation of Nature]] (IUCN) has classified ''Ichthyophis kodaguensis'' as "[[data deficient]]".<ref name="iucn status 20 November 2021" /> IUCN acknowledged the species as being able to live in agricultural habitat and thereby able to tolerate disturbed habitats, but considered available information too scarce to assess its conservation status.<ref name="iucn status 20 November 2021" /> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||