Hmar Tlawmte Lalremsanga‡, Jayaditya Purkayastha§, Mathipi Vabeiryureilai‡, Lal Muansanga‡, Ht Decemson‡, Lal Biakzuala‡Corresponding author: Lal Biakzuala ( bzachawngthu123@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Nikhil Modak © Hmar Tlawmte Lalremsanga, Jayaditya Purkayastha, Mathipi Vabeiryureilai, Lal Muansanga, Ht Decemson, Lal Biakzuala. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Lalremsanga HT, Purkayastha J, Vabeiryureilai M, Muansanga L, Decemson H, Biakzuala L (2021) Range extension of Ichthyophis multicolor Wilkinson et al., 2014 to India and first molecular identification of Ichthyophis moustakius Kamei et al., 2009. Check List 17(4): 1021-1029. https://doi.org/10.15560/17.4.1021 |  |
We report a substantial range extension of Ichthyophis multicolor Wilkinson, Presswell, Sherratt, Papadopoulou & Gower, 2014, with new material from Mizoram State, Northeast India. The species was previously known only from its type locality more than 800 km away in Ayeyarwady Region, Myanmar. The species was identified by both its morphology and 16s rRNA gene sequence data. One of the studied individuals represents the largest known specimen for the species (total length = 501 mm; mid-body width = 18.8 mm). Brief comparisons of I. multicolor with the sympatric as well as parapatric congeners in the region, and first barcode data for I. moustakius Kamei, Wilkinson, Gower & Biju, 2009 are also presented.