Banna caecilian

Banna caecilian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Gymnophiona
Family: Ichthyophiidae
Genus: Ichthyophis
Species: I. bannanicus
Binomial name
Ichthyophis bannanicus
Yang, 1984
I. bannanicus range
Synonyms

Ichthyophis bannanica

The Banna caecilian, Ichthyophis bannanicus, is a species of amphibians in the family Ichthyophiidae found in southern China and northern Vietnam, presumably also in adjacent eastern Myanmar and northern Laos.[2] Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, plantations, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forest, irrigated land, and seasonally flooded agricultural land. It is threatened by habitat loss.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Yuan, Zhigang; Chou, Wenhao; Wilkinson, Mark; Gower, David (2004). "Ichthyophis bannanicus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2004: e.T59609A11967645. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T59609A11967645.en. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  2. Frost, Darrel R. (2013). "Ichthyophis bannanicus Yang, 1984". Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 6 July 2013.


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