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Fuller's caecilian

Index Fuller's caecilian

Fuller's caecilian (also Kuttal caecilian), Chikila fulleri, is a species of caecilian endemic to India; the type specimen was collected six miles southwest of Silchar in Cachar, Assam, at an altitude of about 100 m above sea level. [1]

19 relations: Alfred William Alcock, Amphibian, Animal, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bangladesh, Caecilian, Chikila, Chikilidae, Chordate, Endemism, Gegeneophis, Gymnophiona, Herpele, India, Meghalaya, Myanmar, Nagaland, Tripura.

Alfred William Alcock

Alfred William Alcock, CIE (23 June 1859 in Bombay – 24 March 1933 in Belvedere, Kent) was a British physician, naturalist, and carcinologist.

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Amphibian

Amphibians are ectothermic, tetrapod vertebrates of the class Amphibia.

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Animal

Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Arunachal Pradesh

Arunachal Pradesh ("the land of dawn-lit mountains") is one of the 29 states of India and is the northeastern-most state of the country.

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Assam

Assam is a state in Northeast India, situated south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys.

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশ, lit. "The country of Bengal"), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh (গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ), is a country in South Asia.

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Caecilian

Caecilians (New Latin for "blind ones") are a group of limbless, serpentine amphibians.

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Chikila

Chikila is a genus of amphibian in the order Gymnophiona (caecilians).

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Chikilidae

Chikilidae is a family of Indian caecilians, the 10th and most recent (2012) family of caecilians (legless amphibians) to be identified, although the type species, Chikila fulleri (formerly Herpele fulleri) was first described in 1904.

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Chordate

A chordate is an animal belonging to the phylum Chordata; chordates possess a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail, for at least some period of their life cycle.

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Endemism

Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Gegeneophis

Gegeneophis is a genus of amphibians in the family Indotyphlidae.

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Gymnophiona

Gymnophiona is the group of amphibians that includes the legless caecilians and all amphibians more closely related to them than to frogs or salamanders (the "stem-caecilians").

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Herpele

Herpele is a genus of caecilians in the family Herpelidae.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Meghalaya

Meghalaya is a state in Northeast India.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia.

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Nagaland

Nagaland is a state in Northeast India.

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Tripura

Tripura 'ত্রিপুরা (Bengali)' is a state in Northeast India.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuller's_caecilian

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