Caecilian (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) Diversity of Kerala

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Caecilians: an overview. 2. Caecilian diversity in India. 3. Caecilian diversity in the Western Ghats. 4. Caecilian diversity in Kerala. 5. Family Ichthyophiidae Fitzinger, 1826. 6. Genus Ichthyophis Fitzinger, 1826. 7. Ichthyophis beddomei Peters, 1879. 8. Ichthyophis longicephalus Pillai, 1986. 9. Ichthyophis tricolor Annandale, 1909. 10. Ichthyophis bombayensis Taylor, 1960. 11. Genus Uraeotyphlus Peters, 1880. 12. Malabaricus group Gower and Wilkinson, 2007. 13. Uraeotyphlus malabaricus (Beddome, 1870). 14. Uraeotyphlus oommeni Gower and Wilkinson, 2007. 15. Oxyurus group Gower and Wilkinson, 2007. 16. Uraeotyphlus interruptus Pillai and Ravichandran, 1999. 17. Uraeotyphlus menoni Annandale, 1913. 18. Uraeotyphlus narayani Seshachar, 1939. 19. Uraeotyphlus oxyurus (Dumeril and Bibron, 1841). 20. Family Indotyphlidae Lescure, Renous & Gasc, 1986. 21. Genus Gegeneophis. 22. Gegeneophis carnosus Beddome, 1870. 23. Gegeneophis primus Kotharambath et al., 2012. 24. Gegeneophis ramaswamii Taylor, 1964. 25. Gegeneophis tejeaswini Kotharambath et al., 2015. References. Acknowledgements.