Uraeotyphlus oommeni

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Uraeotyphlus oommeni
Conservation status
Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Gymnophiona
Clade:	Apoda
Family:	Ichthyophiidae
Genus:	Uraeotyphlus
Species:	U. oommeni
Binomial name
*Uraeotyphlus oommeni* Gower and Wilkinson [fr], 2007^[2]

Uraeotyphlus oommeni, sometimes known as the Oommen's caecilian,^[1]^[3] Oommen's Uraeotyphlus,^[2] or Bonnacord caecilian,^[4] is a species of caecilian in the family Ichthyophiidae.^[3]^[5] Within Uraeotyphlus, it belongs to the U. malabaricus group showing no obvious external differentiation between primary and higher-order annuli.^[2] This species is endemic to the Western Ghats and only known from its type locality, Bonaccord, Thiruvananthapuram district, southern Kerala.^[3] Very little is known about this species known only from a single specimen collected from an imprecise location.^[1]

Etymology

The specific name oommeni honours Oommen V. Oommen, professor of zoology at the University of Kerala.^[2]^[6]

Description

The holotype is a mature female measuring 164 mm (6.5 in) in total length and 7 mm (0.3 in) wide at mid-body. There are 207 (left side) and 214 (right side) annuli, without clear external differentiation between primary and higher-order annuli. The body is strongly dorsoventrally compressed. The head is small and pointed. The eyes are clearly visible. The preserved specimen has lilac-brown anterior part of the body, becoming paler towards the head. The darker dorsal colouration grades through lighter brown to cream-tan ventrally.^[2]

Habitat and conservation

The precise location where this species was collected on the Bonaccord estate in 1987 is unknown.^[1]^[2] It is probably similar to other members of the genus, which are oviparous, lay terrestrial eggs, and are subterranean as adults. Threats to this species are unknown.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e David Gower, Mark Wilkinson (2008). "Uraeotyphlus oommeni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008: e.T135990A4223204. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T135990A4223204.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Gower, David J. & Wilkinson, Mark (2007). "Species groups in the Indian caecilian genus Uraeotyphlus Peters (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Uraeotyphlidae), with the description of a new species" (PDF). Herpetologica. 63 (3): 401–410. doi:10.1655/0018-0831(2007)63[401:SGITIC]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 4497972. S2CID 85588420.
^ ^a ^b ^c Frost, Darrel R. (2018). "Uraeotyphlus oommeni Gower and Wilkinson, 2007". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
^ "Uraeotyphlus oommeni Bonnacord Caecilian". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
^ "Ichthyophiidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael & Grayson, Michael (2013). The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Pelagic Publishing. p. 158. ISBN 978-1-907807-42-8.

Taxon identifiers
Uraeotyphlus oommeni	Wikidata: Q3061125 Wikispecies: Uraeotyphlus oommeni ADW: Uraeotyphlus_oommeni AmphibiaWeb: 6981 AoI: 482 ASW: Uraeotyphlus-oommeni CoL: 7DNBC EoL: 7261315 GBIF: 2431058 iNaturalist: 67256 ITIS: 775952 IUCN: 135990 NCBI: 194405 Observation.org: 205922 Open Tree of Life: 3617826

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