Biology:Supachai's caecilian

Supachai's caecilian
Conservation status
Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Gymnophiona
Family:	Ichthyophiidae
Genus:	Ichthyophis
Species:	I. supachaii
Binomial name
Ichthyophis supachaii Taylor, 1960
Supachai's caecilian range

The Supachai's caecilian, Ichthyophis supachaii, is a species of caecilian in the family Ichthyophiidae found in Thailand's provinces of Nakhon Si Thammarat and Trang, and possibly Malaysia.

It is known mostly from 11 specimens of various ages collected in 1958 by Edward Harrison Taylor at several localities in a wide area of tropical forest in southern Thailand. Later, it was recorded among the moist banks of a river near an abandoned zinc mine. It is likely to be threatened by habitat loss.

References

• Himstedt, Werner. "Caecilian Ecology". in Hofrichter, Robert. Amphibians: The World of Frogs, Toads, Salamanders and Newts. New York: Firefly. pp. 186–190. ISBN 1-55209-541-X. 
• van Dijk, P.P., Chuaynkern, Y., Kupfer, A. & Muller, H. (2004). "Ichthyophis supachaii". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (IUCN) 2004: e.T59636A11974248. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T59636A11974248.en. http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/59636/0. Retrieved 15 January 2018. 

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