Animalia > Chordata > Amphibia > Gymnophiona > Ichthyophiidae > Ichthyophis > Ichthyophis kohtaoensis

Ichthyophis kohtaoensis (Yellow-striped caecilian)

Synonyms: Ichthyophis kotaoensis

Wikipedia Abstract

The Koa Tao Island caecilian, Ichthyophis kohtaoensis, is a species of amphibian in the Ichthyophiidae family found in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, plantations, rural gardens, urban areas, heavily degraded former forests, irrigated land, and seasonally flooded agricultural land.
View Wikipedia Record: Ichthyophis kohtaoensis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
7
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
32
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 15.66
EDGE Score: 2.81
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Attributes

Adult Length [1]  19 inches (47.1 cm)
Litter Size [1]  40
Maximum Longevity [2]  7 years
Nocturnal [1]  Yes
Adult Weight [1]  99.5 grams
Diet [1]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Female Maturity [1]  2 years
Male Maturity [1]  2 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Khao Pra Bang Kram Wildlife Sanctuary IV 30009 Thailand  
Sakaerat Environmental Research Station Biosphere Reserve 19294 Thailand  
Sri Satchanalai National Park II 54041 Thailand

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam Yes

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Oliveira, Brunno Freire; São-Pedro, Vinícius Avelar; Santos-Barrera, Georgina; Penone, Caterina; C. Costa, Gabriel. (2017) AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Sci. Data.
♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0